Foundation year Lec.6: Lec.6: Exploring Windows 7 Lecturer: Dalia Mirghani Year : 2014/2015

 Microsoft created the Windows operating system in the mid- 1980s.  Over the years, there have been many different versions of Windows but the most recent ones are Windows Vista (2007), Windows 7 (2009), and Windows 8 (2012).  Windows comes preloaded on most new PCs, which helps to make it the most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft windows Environment 2

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Windows 7 Desktop 4 Desktop Taskbar Window Icon Desktop Taskbar Icons Start button

The Start menu, accessed with a click on the Start button, lists the programs, folders and utility applications that are available on your computer. 5 Programs Control Panel System folders Help and Support All Programs Shut down Search box Start button

Aero Features Windows 7 uses a group of features called Windows Aero:  Snap  Peek  Shake  Flip 6

Snap: A quick way to resize and compare windows on your desktop. 7

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Peek  Peek gives you the power of X-ray vision, so you can peer past all your open windows straight to the windows 7 desktop.  Simply point to the end of the taskbar and watch open windows instantly turn transparent, revealing all your hidden icons and gadgets. 10

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Peek gives you the power of X-ray vision. 12

Shake  When your desktop is cluttered with open windows, you can use Shake to select a single window and close the rest.  Click on the top of the window you want to focus on, Shake it and the rest of the windows will disappear.  Simply Shake the window again and the closed windows will reappear. 13

desktop is cluttered with open windows. 14

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Flip  Flip and Flip 3D are two more ways you can preview your open windows.  Press and hold the Alt key and then press Tab to open the Flip view of your open windows.  While still pressing the Alt key, you can Flip through the open windows by pressing the Tab key.  Stop on the window you want to open and it will appear on the full screen 16

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Flip 3D  Press and hold the Windows key and then press Tab for a 3D version of Flip.  Use the Tab key or Arrow keys to Flip through your open windows. 18

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Access a jump list Jump lists take you right to the documents, pictures, songs or websites you turn to each day. 22

Customize the Desktop You can right-click the Desktop and select Personalize. Screen SaverWindow ColorDesktop Background Themes

Gadgets (Sidebar)  Gadgets are programs that run on your desktop so that you can see information at a glance. Gadgets can give you information about the weather, date & time, news, traffic and more. 24

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Calculator To use the Windows 7 Calculator accessory, 1- Click the Start button, 2- Type calc, and 3- Click Calculator in the search results. The Calculator appears on your desktop. 26 Some Windows 7 Accessories

Snipping Tool The Snipping Tool captures all or part of the computer display screen as a picture. You can save the picture and attach it to an or paste the picture into a document. 27

The painter The Paint window opens. You draw on the canvas by simply clicking and dragging your mouse or using the brushes. 28

Sound Recorder If your computer has a microphone, you can record audio notes or reminders to yourself with the Sound Recorder accessory. 29

Sticky Notes To use Sticky Notes — an accessory that puts yellow notes directly on your computer’s desktop 30

WordPad 31 WordPad, always handy for basic word- processing, just got better. More formatting options, such as highlighting, bullets, line breaks, and new colors—along with picture insertion and zoom—make WordPad a surprisingly powerful tool.

 For more Windows 7 features please visit us/windows7/products/featureshttp://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows7/products/features Exercise Refer to your text book and answer the following: 1.How to apply a screen saver on windows 7? 2.How to copy adjacent files? 3.How to copy nonadjacent files? 32

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