The Teach Yourself series from VIA Graphics, designed to teach you to use your computer
the fast and easy way.
I'm Roger Ritchie, along with Katherine Sparks.
Windows 95 is Microsoft's new operating system.
It's easy, it's fast and powerful.
With a true 32-bit operating system, you can do more and do it faster.
We see the splash screen, then the Windows mouse support dialog box.
When we turned on the computer, we forgot to plug the mouse in.
If you have a PS slash 2 mouse port, you need to turn the computer off, plug the mouse in,
then restart.
We plug our mouse into the serial port, and we press enter, then we see the welcome to
Windows 95 tip box.
You can view a 10-minute Windows tour by selecting this button.
You can choose the what's new button and view common questions and answers about Windows
95.
If you have a modem, you can register your Windows 95 operating system online.
You can select the next button and view the features and system requirements of current
Microsoft products.
You can see demos here too.
Let's view the next tip.
We choose the next tip button and see a different tip in the box.
We don't want to see this welcome screen again, so we click the box in front of the show this
welcome screen option.
We choose the close button and see the Windows 95 desktop.
Let's take a moment and discuss the desktop.
At the bottom, we see the task bar, the base of operations.
We see a clock displaying our system's time in the right corner.
We can easily change the task bar's position.
We place the pointer on the task bar.
We drag the mouse to the right, and when we see the new position, we release the mouse.
We can place the task bar on the left side or at the top also.
We return the task bar to its default position.
In the task bar's left corner, we see the start button.
We'll use it in a moment, but on the left side of the desktop, we see four icons.
Use my computer and display system information.
The recycle bin holds your deleted directories and files until you decide to permanently
move them.
The inbox icon represents Microsoft Exchange, a universal inbox.
You can use it to send and receive email and organize faxes and features from online services.
If you are an online service or internet user, you can view more information about Windows
95 in the When News File sections.
Here's a list of the Internet, World Wide Web, or other online service addresses.
Internet, FTP, Microsoft Network, CompuServe, America Online, and Genie.
Let's view the contents of our computer.
We place the pointer on the My Computer icon.
We double click and see the My Computer window.
Also, when we open My Computer, we see its button on the task bar.
Windows 95 displays a button here for an active or minimized window.
Windows 95 calls directories folders.
You can view the folders and files on any drive.
Let's display our information in this window another way.
We choose View from the menu bar, then the Small Icons command.
We can display more information about our window contents.
We choose View, then Details.
When we scroll the horizontal scroll bar, we see our hard drives total space and free space.
We see a CD-ROM and the type of floppy disk drive installed in our computer.
Let's display a method of changing views quickly.
We choose View, then Toolbar.
Now let's view the entire toolbar by maximizing this window.
We place the pointer in the upper right corner.
Now we select the second button and see the maximized window.
Let's see each button's function.
We place the pointer on the second button from the right.
We see a tooltip with list in it.
You can view tooltips with every toolbar in Windows 95.
Let's view the properties of our hard drive.
We place the pointer on the hard drive icon.
We click the right mouse button and see a shortcut menu.
We can find frequently used commands in a shortcut menu.
Keep in mind nearly every Windows 95 object has its own context sensitive menu.
We select Properties and see the Properties dialog box.
With the General tab selected, we see the amount of used and free space on our hard
drive.
Windows 95 displays our information in a text and graphical format.
We select the Tools tab.
We can check our hard drive for errors or backup and defragmentation status.
We choose Cancel and return to the My Computer window.
Now let's view the folders and files on our hard drive.
We double click the C icon.
Also, we see the Windows button C displayed on the task bar.
Let's display this Windows toolbar.
We choose View, then Toolbar.
We can list our folders and files in the Details view also.
We maximize this window.
We choose the first button from the right and see the change.
We return to the large icon view by selecting the fourth button from the right.
Now let's view the contents of the Windows folder.
We double click this folder and see the contents.
Let's display a font.
Now we double click the Fonts folder.
We double click Braggadocio.
We see the typeface name, file size, and version.
We can print this Windows contents also.
We close this window by choosing the Done button.
Every group window in Windows 95 still has a Control button and menu.
Let's open it.
We place the pointer on the folder icon.
It's in the upper left corner.
We click and see the menu.
We choose the Close command and return to the Windows window.
Let's close this group window another way.
We place the pointer on the folder icon, then double click.
We close the C and My Computer windows by double clicking their Control buttons.
You may pause the tape now to practice on your computer.
We can use the Start button to launch any Windows 95 program.
Let's try it.
We select the Start button.
Now we place, not drag, the mouse pointer on Programs.
We see another menu.
We place the pointer on Accessories and see another menu.
We move the pointer to Documents.
Windows 95 displays the name of any files you open in this menu.
We haven't opened any documents yet, so we see an empty menu.
We highlight Settings and see the Control Panel, Printers, and Taskbar.
We move to Find.
You can locate files and folders using this command.
We click Files or Folders and see the Find window.
We'll use the Find command later, so we close this window by double clicking its folder
icon.
We open the Start menu.
Windows 95 makes it easy to view help for any feature.
We highlight Help.
We click it and Windows 95 sets up help with the Contents tab selected.
We see the Help Topics dialog box.
You can press F1 for context sensitive help too.
Let's view the Tips and Tricks topic.
We double click its book and see Subtopics.
We close the Tips and Tricks book by double clicking it.
Let's view a specific help topic.
We choose the Index tab.
With the insertion point in the type line, we type T.
We see Tape Drive highlighted.
We choose the Display button and see the Backup Help Text.
Now if you want, you can print this help window.
We choose the Options button.
We close the Options menu by pressing the Escape key.
You can return to the main help window by choosing the Help Topics button.
We close this window by double clicking its folder icon.
We mentioned earlier that we're using a Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
We can use two special keys on this keyboard with Windows 95.
On the lower left side of the natural keyboard, there's a key with a Microsoft Windows flag
on it.
This key is between the Control and Alt keys.
There is a duplicate of this key on the lower right side of the keyboard also.
We press the flag key and see the Start menu.
Now we press the up arrow cursor key and see a highlight.
We place the highlight on Programs by pressing the up arrow cursor key six times.
We press the right arrow cursor key and see the Programs menu.
We press Escape twice and close the menus.
We can use another special key on the natural keyboard with Windows 95.
On the right side, we see a key with a pull down menu and pointer on it.
We can use this key and display a shortcut menu.
We press the shortcut menu key and see the shortcut menu for the Start button.
We can use this shortcut menu key for any active object too.
We open My Computer by double clicking it.
We place the pointer in a blank area of the window.
We click the right mouse button and see the shortcut menu.
We close the menu by pressing Escape.
We press the shortcut menu key and see the same shortcut menu.
We close the My Computer window.
We open the Start menu by clicking its button.
You can use the Run line to install or run programs.
We'll use Run later.
The shutdown command closes the Windows 95 operating system.
Okay, let's open the Paint program.
Again, we place, not drag, the mouse on Programs.
We move the pointer to Accessories and see its menu.
We move the pointer to Paint.
We click and see the Paint window.
We see this program's name displayed on the taskbar.
It's easy to draw any bitmap graphic in Paint, so let's create an apple.
With the pencil tool active, we drag the mouse and draw an apple outline.
We drag, then release the mouse to create the stem and leaf.
We made a mistake.
Let's erase it.
We choose the tool with the eraser on it.
We drag the mouse on the mistake and remove it.
We select the pencil tool and continue drawing.
We use the Fill with Color tool in the palette to color each part.
Let's save the apple.
We choose File, then Save As.
We want to save it in the root directory, so we display the Save In drop-down menu.
We click the C icon.
We don't have to use just eight characters in our file name.
We can use spaces, too.
In the file name line, we highlight the text by dragging the mouse.
We type apple drawing.
We press Enter, and Windows 95 saves our file.
Let's size the paint window.
We place the pointer in the lower right corner.
When we see the pointer change into a double-headed arrow, we drag the mouse up and to the left.
We release the mouse and see the new size.
Let's minimize the paint program.
We select the first button from the left in the upper right corner.
It has a line in it.
We see our window move to the taskbar.
Remember, we minimized this window, so Windows 95 dims the paint button.
We see our file name on this button, too.
Let's restore it.
We click the paint button and see our drawing.
We can close paint by double-clicking its folder icon.
However, let's use one of the buttons in the upper right corner of the window.
We choose the button with the X on it and close the program.
Let me pause the tape now to practice on your computer.
Let's review what we've covered in this chapter.
We explained, then used the mouse support.
We moved the taskbar, then discussed the desktop.
We opened the My Computer program.
We viewed a tooltip and a shortcut menu.
We displayed our hard drive properties.
We viewed a folder and some files.
We used Windows 95 help.
We opened the paint program, then saved a drawing as a bitmap file.
We minimized, restored, then sized a window.
Finally, we closed a window.
Earlier we used My Computer and displayed the folders and files in our hard drive.
We can use the Explorer, similar to the Windows 3.1 file manager, to browse our files also.
Let's look at the Explorer.
We choose the start button.
We move the pointer and highlight programs.
We highlight Windows Explorer.
We click and see the Explorer window.
At this time, we see the contents of our hard drive, the default view.
The left pane displays a hierarchical view.
The right pane shows the traditional file manager view.
Let's view the MS Office folder contents.
We double-click this folder.
In the right pane, we see our MS Office applications and some files.
The files with a book in front of them refer to text files.
One file, MS Office, has an icon in front of it.
This file displays the Microsoft Office speed bar.
Let's place this file in the Startup menu.
First, we need to find the Windows 95 Startup menu group.
We choose Tools.
We place the pointer on Find.
We see the pop-up menu.
We highlight files or folders, then click it.
This is the same Find window we viewed earlier in the Start menu.
We can use Find and locate folders and files by their name and location.
We choose the Date Modified tab.
You can use the Date section and find these files created or modified within a certain
time frame.
We select the Advanced tab.
We open the Of Type drop-down menu.
You can shorten your search time by specifying the file type.
For example, if you want to find a Graph 5.0 file, but you're not sure of its name, you
can find all these file types.
We close the menu by pressing the Escape key.
If you remember a distinctive phrase in one of your documents, you can locate the file
with the Containing Text option.
Just type the text in the Containing Text line and choose Find Now.
If you know the approximate size of the file you're trying to find, you can use the Size
Is feature to find a file.
Choose At Least or At Most, then enter the estimated kilobyte size in the KB line.
We press Escape and close the Size Is line.
Now let's find Startup.
We select the Name and Location tab.
We place the insertion point in the named line by pointing and clicking.
This feature is not case sensitive, so we type in all lower case letters, Startup.
We change to C colon backslash in the Look In line, then choose the Find Now button.
We see three files.
We want the Microsoft Program Group type, so we place the pointer on its icon and we
double click to see the Startup window.
We close the Find window.
Let's move the Startup window to the left.
We place the pointer on its title bar.
We drag the mouse and the frame to the left.
Then we release the mouse.
With the MS Office folder contents displayed in the Explorer, we place the pointer on the
first MS Office icon.
We drag the icon to the Startup window and we release the mouse.
We need to restart Windows 95 to view the speed menu, so let's close all our windows.
We press and hold the Control and Alt keys, then we press the Delete key.
We release the Control and Alt keys.
We see the Close Program box.
Then we choose the Shutdown button and we see the Shutdown message.
When we see the You can turn off your computer message, we press Control plus Alt plus Delete
again.
Windows 95 begins and we see the desktop.
Also we see the Microsoft Office speed menu.
You may pause the tape now.
We can use the Shutdown command in the Start menu also.
If an application you are using locks up or hangs, use the Control plus Alt plus Delete
keys and restart Windows 95.
Let's display Explorer again.
We can quickly change the view in the Explorer with the Toolbar.
Let's display it.
We choose View, then Toolbar.
We choose the Large Icons button.
It's the fourth from the right.
Let's copy our learning disk files onto the hard drive, but first we need to create a
folder.
We choose File.
We place the highlight on New and see the pop-up menu.
We choose Folder.
We see the New Folder icon in the right pane.
Let's rename our folder.
With the New Folder text highlighted, we type ViaGraphicsTutorialFiles.
We press Enter and see the New Folder name.
Next, let's copy our learning disk files into this folder.
We place the learning disk in the proper drive, ours is A. Then we display the Go to a Different
Folder list in the Toolbar.
We highlight 3.5 floppy.
We click and see our learning disk files in the right pane.
We want to copy all of our files at once, so let's select all of them.
First we change to the List view.
We highlight the first file by pointing and clicking.
Now we press and hold the Shift key.
By the way, use the Control key to select specific files.
We click the last file.
We see all the files highlighted.
We release the Shift key.
We place the pointer on the first file.
Now we drag the mouse and the file outlines to the ViaGraphicsTutorial folder.
We release the mouse and Windows 95 copies our files into our folder.
We open our tutorial folder by double clicking it.
We see our learning disk files.
We change to the Large Icon view.
We see the Via1 and Via2 files properly identified as Microsoft Word and Excel files respectively
as we created them in the Windows 95 system environment.
We didn't create the video file in Windows 95, but we can still view it.
Let's open this file from the Explorer.
We double click the video icon and see the Open with dialog box.
We scroll the Choose the Program list.
We highlight Notepad.
We want to use Notepad to open this file in the future, so we select the Always option.
We choose OK and see the text.
We close the Notepad window.
Now let's view our learning disk files in the Details view.
We choose the first button from the right.
In the Name column, we see no extensions on our file names.
By default, Windows 95 doesn't display file extensions.
However, any file we create still has an extension so we can use it with existing DOS and Windows
3.1 applications.
We choose View, then the Options command.
With the View tab selected, we remove the check mark in the box in front of the Hide
option.
We choose OK and see the file extensions.
Let's hide the extensions again.
We choose View, then Options.
We place the check mark in the box in front of Hide by pointing and clicking.
We select OK and return to the Explorer window.
Let me pause the tape now.
Keep in mind we can rename a file and not affect the extension.
We can use up to 256 characters when we rename a file.
Let's rename the via1 file.
We click the via1 text.
Now we click the text again and see the insertion point.
We type ViaGraphics Word Document.
We deselect the text by pointing and clicking in a blank area.
Windows 95 makes it easy to place specific folders and files in a custom group window.
Now with the ViaGraphics tutorial folder still open, we choose File, then New.
We select Folder and see the new folder.
Let's place our folder on the desktop.
We place the pointer on the new folder icon.
We drag the mouse and the folder to the lower left corner.
Then we release the mouse and see the new folder.
Let's rename the folder.
With the folder's text highlighted, we click the text and display the insertion point.
We type in all capital letters, Learn folder.
We deselect the text by pointing and clicking in a blank area.
We open the Learn folder by double clicking the icon.
Let's move a copy of the ViaGraphics Word and Via2 file into the Learn folder.
We move to the right pane of the Explorer window.
We highlight the ViaGraphics Word document icon and text.
Now we press and hold the Control key.
We select Via2.
We release the Control key.
Let's copy our files.
We choose the Copy button.
It's the third one from the left.
Windows 95 places our files into the clipboard.
We activate the Learn folder group window by clicking its title bar.
We paste our files into this group window by choosing Edit from the menu bar, then the
Paste command.
We see our files.
We close the Learn folder window.
Let's display our desktop icons in the Explorer window.
We display the Go to drop down menu.
We choose Desktop.
On the left pane we collapse the C folders and files by double clicking the C icon.
Windows 95 makes basic system housekeeping tasks such as formatting fast and easy.
Let's format a floppy disk.
We remove our learning disk from our A drive.
We insert a blank, unformatted disk.
On the left pane of the Explorer we place the pointer on the floppy A icon.
We click the right mouse button and see the shortcut menu.
We choose Format and see the format box.
We display the Capacity drop down menu.
We select 720 KB.
In the Format Type section we choose the radio button in front of Full.
We select the Start button and Windows 95 formats the disk.
We see a format summary.
We remove the box by choosing Close.
We don't want to format another disk so we choose the Close button.
We close the Explorer window.
If we're going to use a document frequently we can place it on the desktop by creating
a shortcut.
Let's place the ViaGraphics Word document on the desktop.
First we display the Word document icon by opening the Learn folder.
Next we place the pointer on the document icon.
We click the right mouse button and see the shortcut menu.
We highlight Create Shortcut then click.
We see the shortcut to ViaGraphics Word document icon.
Let's place it on the desktop.
We place the pointer on this icon.
We drag the mouse and the icon to the bottom of the desktop.
We release the mouse and see the repositioned icon.
We close the Learn folder window.
Let's view our document.
We double click the shortcut to icon.
We see Microsoft Word 6.0 start.
Then we see our document.
We close Word and return to the desktop.
We remove the icon highlight by pointing and clicking in a blank area.
Finally pause the tape now.
Let's review what we've learned in this chapter.
We opened and viewed the Explorer window.
We used Find and located the Startup group window.
We placed a program into a group window.
We displayed the Explorer toolbar.
Then we created, then renamed a folder.
We copied files into a folder.
We opened a text file from the Explorer.
We displayed our file extensions, then hid them.
We placed a folder on the desktop.
We formatted a floppy.
And finally we created a file shortcut, then viewed the document.
Windows 95 offers several methods we can use to install applications.
In Windows 3.1 we can install or run an application from the Run command line.
Let's use Run and install an MS-DOS shareware program.
We choose the Start button.
We select Run and see the box.
Use the Run line and create a temporary network connection.
Let's type the path to a shared computer.
We place the program floppy in the proper drive.
Ours is A. We choose the Browse button.
With programs displayed in the files of type line, we display the Look In drop down menu.
We select Floppy A. We see a list of our floppy files.
We double click the Install icon and return to the Run box.
With a colon backslash install dot com in the open line, we choose OK and see the MS-DOS
install window.
We need to create a directory for our program.
So we select the HHH directory by pressing Enter.
We confirm by pressing Y.
MS-95 installs our MS-DOS program.
We close the install window and return to the desktop.
Let's run Hugo's House of Horrors.
We choose Start, then Run.
We select Browse.
We change the Look In line to C. We double click the HHH folder.
Now we double click the HHH icon and return to the Run box.
We choose OK and see the game begin.
Let's end the game.
We type Quit.
We press Enter and see a Are You Sure?
message.
We type Y for Yes and return to the MS-DOS window.
We close this window and return to the desktop.
Let's install Take 3, a demo Windows 3.1 program.
We'll use the Add Remove Programs application.
We choose the Start button.
We highlight Settings, then select Control Panel.
We double click Add Remove Programs and see the Properties box.
With the Install Uninstall tab selected, we remove the MS-DOS Shareware Program Disk.
We place the Windows demo disk in the A drive.
We choose the Install button and see the Install Program From box.
We choose Next and see acolumbackslashsetup.exe in the command line.
We choose the Finish button and see the Installing Program screen.
We accept the default directory.
We choose OK and Windows 95 installs our program.
You can install MS-DOS programs from Add Remove programs also.
We close the successfully installed message by selecting OK.
We see our new Take a Break window.
We close this window and the Control Panel.
You may pause the tape now.
Windows 95 makes it easy to create a shortcut for any frequently used program.
Let's create a shortcut for our Take a Break program.
We choose the Start button.
We highlight Find, then select Files or Folders.
With C displayed in the Look In line, we type Take a Break, in all lowercase in the Named
line.
We're looking for a folder, not a subfolder, so we remove the check mark in front of the
Include Subfolders option.
We choose Find Now and see 10 files in the bottom part of the box.
We scroll the list and see Dynamics, which contains our Take a Break folder.
Let's see our Take folder by double-clicking the Dynamics folder.
We see our folder name is Take 3, not Take a Break.
However, Windows 95 used our name and found what we wanted.
Let's create the shortcut.
We place the pointer on the Take 3 icon.
We display the shortcut menu by clicking the right mouse button.
We choose Create Shortcut and see the shortcut icon.
Now we drag the shortcut icon to the desktop.
We release the mouse and see the repositioned icon.
We close the Dynamics and Find windows.
Let's run one of the programs.
We open the shortcut to Take 3 folder.
We double-click TIM, the incredible machine.
We double-click TIM Demo and see the program begin.
We close the window, then choose OK at the prompt.
We close the TIM and the Take 3 window.
Let's run another Take 3 program and use the Start menu.
We select Start, then Programs.
We highlight Take a Break, Take 3, and see the pop-up menu.
We click Pinball and Windows 95 starts the program.
We close the game by choosing Game, then Exit.
We choose the Exit button.
We remove the message box by selecting OK.
Many people feel more comfortable using the MS DOS prompt.
Windows 95 has enhanced the MS DOS prompt window with some exciting features.
We choose the Start button.
We highlight Programs, then highlight the MS DOS prompt.
We click it and see the prompt window.
Let's display just the MS DOS window.
We press and hold the Alt key.
Then we press the Enter key and see the change.
We return to the MS DOS window by pressing Alt plus Enter.
It's easy to change the text font size in any MS DOS window.
We can use the Font button on the toolbar.
It has an A on it.
Let's use the Font drop-down menu.
We display the menu.
We scroll, then select 10 by 20.
We see the change.
We can specify screen size, memory, program options, or hotkeys with the Properties dialog
box.
We choose the Properties button.
It's the third one from the right.
With the Program tab selected, we can change the default command line and working directory.
You can specify a batch file that automatically runs every time you start MS DOS prompt.
You can designate a shortcut key to start or switch to this prompt window from Windows
95.
We display the Run drop-down menu.
We can tell the prompt window to automatically minimize or maximize every time we start it.
We accept the normal window default.
If any of your DOS programs conflict with Windows 95, you can custom configure DOS.
We select the Advanced button.
We click the box in front of MS DOS mode and see three options.
Let's view our config.sys and autoexec.bat files from the MS DOS mode.
We choose the radio button in front of Specify a new configuration and see the file contents.
We choose the Configuration button.
You can use the configuration options to automatically start the disk cache, command line editor,
and direct disk access options every time you start Windows 95 in MS DOS mode.
We choose Cancel twice and return to the Properties box.
We select the Font tab.
We can preview any TrueType or Bitmap font in the preview window.
We highlight 12 by 22 and we choose the Memory tab.
Some MS DOS programs use more than the default conventional expanded and extended memory
settings.
You can customize your memory settings here.
If you're not sure how much memory your DOS program needs, Windows 95 recommends you use
the Auto setting.
We choose the Screen tab.
You can change the usage, window, and performance of your MS DOS window here.
We select the Miscellaneous tab.
You can customize the foreground, mouse, and other options here.
Also, you can disable specific Windows shortcut keys.
We choose Cancel and return to the MS DOS prompt window.
We can copy and paste any DOS text into another DOS program or into Windows 95.
So let's try it.
At the prompt, we type in all capital letters, text, and the 95 clipboard.
Now we need to highlight our text.
We select the Mark button.
It's the first one from the left.
We click at the beginning of our text.
We drag the mouse to the right and highlight.
We release the mouse.
We choose the Copy button.
It's the second from the left.
We delete the typed text by pressing the Backspace key.
Keep in mind, we cannot copy or paste text when the MS DOS window or program displays
a full screen.
Let's paste the text.
We close the MS DOS prompt window.
We double click the shortcut to ViaGraphics Word document icon.
We see our document.
We place the insertion point at the end of the last sentence.
We create a new line by pressing Enter.
Now we choose the Paste button.
It's the ninth from the left.
We see our MS DOS text.
We close the Word document.
We answer No to the Save Changes prompt.
Printing is an important feature of any operating system.
Windows 95 makes it easier and faster to configure and use printers.
If you had a printer installed in Windows 3.1, Windows 95 automatically migrated or
moved your printer.
Let's install a new printer.
We choose the Start button.
We highlight Settings.
We highlight Printers, then select it.
We double click the Add Printer icon and see the Add Printer Wizard.
We choose the Next button.
Windows 95 supplies many popular printer drivers.
We want to install a Hewlett Packard 520 DeskJet.
We scroll the Manufacturers list and we highlight HP.
We scroll the Printers list and see two options for our printer.
If we choose Microsoft, we'll use Windows 95 drivers for our printer.
Selecting the Windows 3x Drivers option uses drivers configured for Windows 3.0 and 3.1.
If our drivers aren't recent, it may be a good idea to use the Microsoft drivers for
better performance.
We highlight HP DeskJet 520 printer, Microsoft.
We choose Next.
We accept the LPT 1 printer port configuration and we choose Next.
Let's change the default printer name.
In the printer name line, we type in all capital letters, My Printer.
We want this printer to be our default Windows printer, so we click the radio button in front
of Yes.
We choose Next.
We can print a test page and confirm the printer install.
For this exercise, we select No.
We select the printer button and see the My Printer icon in the printer's window.
Use the shortcut menu and rename your printer also.
We close the printer's window.
Installing applications is an important part of your system.
However, you need to remove applications also.
Windows 95 makes it easy to delete programs.
Let's remove Hugo's house and the take a break applications.
Also, we'll delete a shortcut.
We open My Computer.
We restore the window.
We double click the C icon.
Let's delete Hugo's house.
We scroll the window and see the HHH folder.
We place the pointer on this folder.
We drag the mouse and the folder to the recycle bin.
We release the mouse and Windows 95 deletes the HHH folder.
Before we deleted our folder, our bin was empty.
Now we see some material in it.
Let's empty the recycle bin.
We place the pointer on the bin icon.
We display the shortcut menu by clicking the right mouse button.
We choose Empty Recycle Bin.
We answer Yes to the Are You Sure?
shortcut.
Windows 95 removes the items and we see an empty bin.
We can easily delete any created shortcut.
Let's remove the shortcut to the VIAGraphics Word document.
We place the pointer on the shortcut to VIAGraphics Word document icon.
We drag the mouse and the icon to the bin.
Then we release the mouse and we see material in the bin.
We can customize our desktop by choosing a predefined scheme.
Let's change our desktop display.
We place the pointer in the center of the desktop.
We click the right mouse button and see the shortcut menu.
We select Properties.
We can select one of 32 background patterns.
We choose Thatches and see a preview in the miniature monitor.
We can select one of 44 wallpapers.
We highlight Win Logo.
We choose the Apply button and we move the Properties box and see the change.
You can prevent monitor burn-in with a screen saver.
We click the Screen Saver tab.
You can choose one of 11 screen savers.
We select Flying Windows and see a preview in the miniature monitor.
We return to the None default.
We choose the Appearance tab.
You can change the colors of your windows, title bar, and message boxes with one of 27
schemes.
We press Escape and close the Scheme menu.
You can use the Item list and change one item setting at a time.
We select the Settings tab.
And let's adjust the size of our desktop objects.
We place the pointer on the pointer bar in the desktop area.
We drag the mouse to the right and see the change in the monitor.
We choose Cancel and return to the desktop.
We have several windows minimized.
If we have multiple windows open or minimized, it's easy to move from one program to another
by task switching.
We press and hold the Alt key, then press Tab.
We see the Microsoft Speed menu, the C drive window, My Computer, and the Control Panel.
We choose a program by pressing Tab and moving the outline.
Let's display the Control Panel.
We press Tab until we see the outline around this icon.
We release the Alt key and see the Control Panel.
We open My Computer and the C windows by clicking on their buttons on the task bar.
We can quickly minimize all of our windows at once with the Time Shortcut menu.
We place the pointer on the clock in the lower right corner.
We click the right mouse button.
We choose Minimize All Windows.
Let's restore the windows.
Again, we display the Time Shortcut menu.
We choose Undo Minimize All.
We close each window.
Earlier we viewed the Documents menu from the Start button.
Let's view it again.
We select the Start button.
We highlight Documents and see the Documents we've opened.
Let's display the Apple drawing now.
We double click it.
We see the Paint program begin, then our drawing.
We close the Paint window.
Windows 95 makes it easy to customize the task bar.
We place the pointer on the task bar.
We display the Shortcut menu.
We choose Properties.
We select the Start Menu Programs tab.
You can add or remove menu items.
You can use the Advanced button and start Windows Explorer.
Then you can arrange the items so they appear in a different order.
Let's remove the files from the Documents menu.
We choose the Clear button.
We choose the Taskbar Options tab.
Let's adjust the task bar's position.
We choose the box in front of Auto Hide.
We see the task bar disappear in the Preview section.
We're finished here, so we select the Apply button.
We choose OK and close the Properties box.
We no longer see the task bar.
When we move the pointer to the bottom of the desktop, the task bar appears.
Let's view the Documents menu.
We choose the Start button.
We highlight Documents and see an empty menu.
We press Escape twice and close the menus.
Let's shut down our computer.
We choose the Start button.
We select Shutdown.
We can shut down our computer or restart it.
Also, we can restart our computer in the MS-DOS mode.
We accept the Shutdown default.
We choose Yes and see the Please Wait screen.
When we see you can now safely turn off your computer, we turn the computer off.
Let's review what we covered in this chapter.
We viewed the keyboard settings.
We discussed regional settings and changed the desktop display.
We used task switching.
We minimized all of our windows at once using the Time Shortcut menu.
We opened a drawing file from the Documents menu.
We customized the task bar and finally we cleared the Documents menu.
That review concludes this video tutorial, Learning Windows 95 in Production.
We've covered a lot of information in this tutorial.
If you feel the need to review, simply rewind the tape and watch that section again until
you're comfortable with the material.
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