Microsoft Windows

  Windows XP (2001   2007) Still installed on 5% of computers  Microsoft does not support it any more Windows Vista (2007  2009)   Not a market success Installed on less than 1% of computers 11 Aug 2014 Windows 1

Microsoft Windows

 Windows 7 (2009     2013) like Windows Vista but faster and more stable Installed on 57% of computers Enterprise edition is installed on some UNIBZ computers Starter Home Basic Home Premium Professional

Enterprise

/Ultimate 11 Aug 2014 Windows 2

Microsoft Windows

 Windows 8 (2013   ?) not appreciated user interface designed for tablets    Installed on 21% of computers After first update it becomes Windows 8.1

Enterprise edition installed on most UNIBZ computers Windows 8 Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Enterprise 11 Aug 2014 Windows 3

How to start with Windows 8

 In room A518 computers use multi-boot  when switched on, you can decide:    Windows (which is Windows 8) Linux Local HD (which is Windows 7, when installed)  If computer is already on and you want to change operating system…  … just restart it!

11 Aug 2014 Windows 4

Regional and language settings for Windows 7

 Start menu   Control panel Clock, Language and Region    Region and Language Change Display Language  Formats  Additional Settings  Keyboard setting  To switch keyboard: left ALT + shift 11 Aug 2014 Windows 5

Regional and language settings for Windows 8.1

 Windows+I   Control Panel Clock, Language and Region    Region Change Display Language  Formats  Additional Settings  Keyboard settings  To switch keyboard: left ALT + shift 11 Aug 2014 Windows 6

The computer locks…

    Press the X on your program window CTRL+SHIFT+ESC   Choose your program and end it!

CTRL+ALT+DEL  Shut Down Turn off your computer Warning: you will lose your unsaved work!

11 Aug 2014 Windows 7

File types

 Windows+I  Personalization Control panel  Appearance and             Folder option  View Unselect “Hide extensions for known file types” Programs (run directly) .exe .com .bat

Compressed (WinZip or 7-Zip or IZArc or Windows) .zip

Text files (Notepad) .txt

Documents (Word) .docx .doc .rtf

Documents (Acrobat reader) .pdf

Sheets (Excel) .xlsx .xls .csv

Images (depends…) .jpg .jpeg .gif .bmp .png

Movies (depends…) .avi .mov .mpg .mpeg

Audio (depends…) .mp3 .wav

Web pages (Explorer) .html .htm

11 Aug 2014 Windows 8

Things you should already know

     Open and Open with… Copy and Move Rename Delete Shortcut 11 Aug 2014 Windows 9

Compressing

 Compress files   WinZip, 7-Zip, IZArc, Windows itself Extract files before modifying them!!!

 Compressing with password 11 Aug 2014 Windows 10

File permissions

  Users and groups  Administrators Authorizations       Read Read and Execute (for programs) List content (for directories) Write (for directories) Modify Full control 11 Aug 2014 Windows 11

Network directories

 \\ubz01fst\courses\course_coletti  \\ubz01fst\courses\exam_coletti\ LOGINNAME  \\ubz01fst\courses\scratchECO  \\ubz01fst\students\...\...\ LOGINNAME  Max 300 MB disk space (emails do not count) 11 Aug 2014 Windows 12

Roaming profile

 When you log off Documents and Windows configuration) is copied to  all your home (Desktop, \\ubz01fst\students\...\...\LOGINNAME

only if

you have enough space  If you do not have space, delete your huge files directly from directory \\ubz01fst\students\...\...\LOGINNAME (not from Desktop)!!!

11 Aug 2014 Windows 13