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Windows XP Intro
What’s familiar
What’s new
The Taskbar
The Start Menu
The New Look
 Windows has had a makeover for XP
 Updated graphics
 Clearer Text especially on Flat panel LCD screens
(like those on your new systems)
 Task-oriented interface: Copy, move or delete files
and folders conveniently
 A preview…
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Improved User Interface
 New ways to look at your files and folders
 More convenient ways of viewing graphics,
multimedia
 Easier to organize your display
 My Documents and My Computer now
Task-oriented
 A left pane presents tasks varying according to
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what you select on the right
Easier file and folder management
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Familiar Features
 For the user, Windows XP is not a radical break
with Windows’ past
 You can still do almost everything as you used to
 New possibilities save time
 Many improvements “under the hood”
 More stable programming core
 Based on Windows NT/ Windows 2000 architecture
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Shutting Down
 Use the Start button at the lower left of the screen as
usual
 Now the Shut Down button is immediately above for
you to click.
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Shut Down Choices
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New Shut Down Choices
 Log off
 Security precaution: Brings up Login screen
 Breaks your connection to the network
• Network files (H: drive)
• Printers
 “Visitors” can’t get into your computer
• Use when you go away from your computer briefly
• Use of you share a computer with others
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New Shut Down Choices
 Hibernate
 Preserves everything you were doing when you
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hibernated
Turns computer off after
Restores everything when you restart
Speeds up restart
Pressing power button activates Hibernate!
(Don’t try this at home)
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The Taskbar: Familiar features
 Many of the Taskbar’s features are the same
as they were in Windows 95/98
 The Start Button and Clock still appear
 A running program’s icon appears on the taskbar.
 When you minimize a program, its icon remains
on the Taskbar to remind you that it’s running.
 To restore a program to its last size when it is
minimized, click its Taskbar icon.
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The Taskbar
Quick Launch Toolbar
Click icons to start programs
Double-click to view/change
clock and calendar
 View Clock / Calendar as usual
 Quick Launch toolbar helps keep a clean desktop
 To activate Quick Launch:
 Right-click an empty area of the Taskbar
 Click Toolbars > Quick Launch
 To populate: Right-drag Start menu icons to toolbar
and choose Copy
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The Taskbar: Improvements
 Open 1 – 3 documents in an
Office program like Word
 One icon appears for each
document
 Open (roughly) 4+ documents:
Their 4 icons collapse into one
 To switch documents
 Click to open the icon
 Select the doc you want
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The Start menu
 The Start menu serves the same
functions as it did in Windows
95/98, and more…
 Click the Start button as usual to
open the Start menu
 From the Start Menu, click All
Programs get to any program on
your system.
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Start Menu: Familiar features
Click any entry with a right-pointing
arrow to open another menu
 Open several layers of cascading menus this way.
 Tip: Move the cursor through shaded areas to open
cascading menus. It takes some hand-eye coordination!
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Start Menu: New configuration
 Programs on the left
 Important computer
locations and
resources on the right
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Start Menu: Right Column
 Quickly open the My Computer or
My Documents windows
 Get back to one of the documents
you’ve edited most recently.
 Change many aspects of your
computer, from the look of your
opening screen to the computer’s
date and time zone in
Control Panel
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Start Menu: Right Column (2)
 Set which printer you’d prefer to
print to regularly and control other
print options from the Printers area
 Look up any Windows feature in
Help and Support
 Click Search to find a document by
name or by any phrase it contains
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Start Menu: Left Column
 Pinned programs area
 These programs always appear
at the top of the Start menu.
 Recent program list
 Displays program icons only
after you use them.
 Changes dynamically as you use
different programs.
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Start Menu: Pinning programs
 To add a program to the
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top of the Start Menu:
Click the All Programs
button
Find the program’s entry
Right-click the entry
A shortcut menu pops up
Click Pin to Start menu
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Start Menu: Unpinning programs
 To remove a program from
the top of the Start Menu:
1. Right-click the entry
A shortcut menu pops up
2. Click Remove from this list
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Desktop icons
 Part of the clean new look for Windows XP is
a desktop with very few icons
 You can do with fewer icons because of
Windows XP’s features:
 Pinned program icons on the Start Menu
 Quick Launch toolbar always accessible
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Creating Desktop icons
You can still add a desktop icon for any program:
1. Click the Start button, then All Programs
2. Locate the entry for the program you want to place
on your desktop
3. Right-click the entry
(Click with the right
mouse button)
 A Menu pops up
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4.
On the popup menu, click Send To >
Desktop (create shortcut)
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A Desktop icon for the program appears
Double-click the icon to start the program.
The program’s entry also remains in the Start Menu
structure.
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Window XP New features: Summary
 Familiar but improved
interface
 More stable program
core
 New Graphics
 Clean Desktop
 Task-Oriented interface
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in My Documents and
My Computer
New Shut Down
Options
Stacked Taskbar icons
Two-Column Start
Menu
Easy creation of
Desktop Icons
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Further Information
 Where to look for more on Windows XP:
 PowerPoint module and document on Managing
files on TLC website (http://www.ccsf.edu/tlc then click the Handouts link, Windows Software)
 VTC Multimedia Training modules on many
aspects of XP
 Windows Help and Support on your Start menu
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