WINDOWS XP

                                                                      TOPICS FOR SEMESTER

                                                Tuesday 2:00 pm    Room 202                    

                                                                     Jerry Greth & Bob Ehrlich

GETTING AROUND ON YOUR COMPUTER

REVIEW SEMESTERS TOPICS

EXPLAIN GROUND RULES

DIFFERENCE OF XP HOME EDITION, XP PROFFESIONAL, WINDOWS 98

WINDOWS XP  CLASSIC VIEW VS DEFAULT VIEW AND HOW TO CHANGE

CUSTOMIZING THE APPEARANCE OF WINDOWS XP

COMPUTER SECURITY

            ANTI VIRUS PROGRAMS

            ANTI SPY PROGRAMS

            WINDOWS UPDATES

MAKING THE COMPUTER YOUR OWN  DESKTOP,  CONTROL PANEL, FOLDERS

NAVIGATING THE WINDOW DESKTOP (ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS)

               REVIEWING USES OF WINDOWS EXPLORER

 DRIVES, FOLDER AND FILE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS

SELECTING, COPYING AND MOVING FILES AND FOLDERS

 CREATING, DELETING, RENAMING AND FINDING FILES AND FOLDERS      

CUSTOMIZING OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF WINDOWS

                THE RECYCLE BIN

USING WIN XP APPLICATIONS  CLIPBOARD, WORDPAD, PAINT, CDPLAYER,

COPY, CUT, AND PASTE IN DOCUMENTS

WORKING WITH WINDOWS (INTRODUCING NOTEPAD, WORD PAD)

CREATING,  SAVING, OPENING AND EDITING A DOCUMENT WITH WORDPAD

CREATING GRAPHICS WITH PAINT

PRINTING WITH WINDOWS

INSTALLING AND UNINSTALLING APPLICATIONS( PROGRAMS)

 

TOOLS TO TUNE UP YOUR COMPUTER

DISK MANAGEMENT AND UTILITIES,  DISK SCAN, DEFRAGMENTATION

USING GRAPHICS, AUDIO AND VIDEO TOOLS

WORKING WITH SOUND AND VIDEO

SETTING UP AN INTERNET CONNECTION

CONFIGURING FOR THE INTERNET OR AN ONLINE SERVICE

BASIC INTERNET BROWSER OPERATIONS  BROWSE, EMAIL, DOWNLOADS

INTRODUCE THE INTERNET

USING INTERNET EPLORER ( UDEL SUPPORTED)

COPY MATERIAL FROM REFERENCES

DOWNLOADING FILES FROM THE INTERNET

DECOMPRESSING FILES (UNZIPPING DOWNLOADED FILES)

COMPARE TO NETSCAPE

USING EMAIL

SEARCHING FOR AND SAVING WEB PAGE LOCATIONS

SENDING AND RECEIVING MAIL

PREPARING A GRAPHIC FOR E_MAIL