1. MIS001 A1 Computer Hardware Windows ’98 and Internet Explorer Chapter 3 Start Menu and Control Panel

2. MIS001 A2 Start Menu Programs Favorite Option Documents Option Settings Option Find Help Run ! CTRL + Esc

3. MIS001 A3 Start Menu Programs: give you the path of the specific program files / executable files. Favorites: used to store your favorite links to specific web sites by Internet Explorer Documents: denotes the documents that were used recently. Settings: modify desktop or system setting Find: search for files or folders Help: get answer to your questions Run: open items such as Web pages, programs, and other computers’ resources

4. MIS001 A4 Add a Favorite links

5. MIS001 A5 Settings Control Panel Add a printer Control Start menu Folders options Windows update

6. MIS001 A6 Add a program to start menu Steps taken Click Start Menu Click Settings Click Taskbar & Start Menu Select the Start Menu Programs tab Click on Add

7. MIS001 A7 Add a program to start menu Steps taken Use Browse to select the program to be added Click Next Double click on Start Menu Folder Type in a name for the program Click on Finish

8. MIS001 A8 How to find a file

9. MIS001 A9 How to find a file Components of a file name: Dog.doc Dog is the name of the file.doc is the extension of the file, stands for word document Wildcard to be used: *: identifies a set of characters ?: identifies a single character For example, st*.doc, dat?.ppt

10. MIS001 A10 How to find a file Examples of using wildcard searching: D?s*.* (find all the files start with D, and the third character of the file name is s) ??y.ppt (find all powerpoint files that have ‘y’ as the third character in the file name)

11. MIS001 A11 How to add a shortcut Steps taken: Right Click on your desktop Click on New option Select the Shortcut option Use browser to select the program you want to create a shortcut for

12. MIS001 A12 Control Panel Add/remove programs in start menu Change date/time Change display Change mouse setup View system settings Use ODBC (Open Database Connection)

13. MIS001 A13 Add/remove a program Steps taken: Click Start Menu Click Settings Click Control Panel Click Add/Remove programs Click Install to install new program or Remove to uninstall an existing program

14. MIS001 A14 Change Date/Time Steps taken to change system date/time Double click on Date/Time Modify the date/time to the desired one Click on Apply to apply the new settings

15. MIS001 A15 Change Display Steps taken to change the display for the computer: Click on Display Make proper changes Click on Apply to apply the new settings

16. MIS001 A16 View system settings