Windows Review Sheet to help with Windows Quiz – Prepared by Floyd Winters 04/24/09

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· The System tray often shows programs that stay in memory, such as Antivirus programs. You may safely let your cursor hover over these icons to see what they are.

· You can adjust the Speaker Volume or turn off the speaker by clicking on the Volume icon found in the System Tray

· Left-click items in the System Tray for simple adjustments, Right-click for advanced settings. You may safely try this now. But please be sure to leave features at a reasonable setting.

· If you let your cursor hover over the Time display in the System Tray, the current Date will appear above the Time. You may safely try this now.

· You can drag shortcut icons from the Desktop to the Quick Launch Toolbar if it is turned on. Right-click the Taskbar to turn on or turn off toolbars.

· A shortcut has an arrow in the bottom left corner of its icon

· The restore button "toggles" between the maximized screen and a normal window. You may safely try this now

· You can click and drag an application's Titlebar to move it to a different place on the desktop. You may safely try this. (You may have to "toggle" the Restore button first.)

· If an application is minimized, you must click on its button on the taskbar to restore it. You may safely minimize and then Restore this window now.

· Opening My Computer will show folders for floppy drives, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and the Control Panel. You may safely minimize this file now and try it.

· Because you are now using Windows, you may safely click Start, Help right now and check out how Windows Help works.

· Letters, agendas, resumes, student records, word processor and spreadsheet programs are all stored in files.

· DOS uses the term Directory instead of the term Folders.

· Hard drives are usually inside the computer, and often cannot be removed by the user.

· A computer may have one or more hard drives. A second drive may be used for data or for backup purposes.

· A CD can store about 650 MB. A DVD can store about 6 GB. (Capacities vary).  USB thumb drive can store 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB…

· A Kilobyte is 1,000 characters (actually 1,024 or 2 ^ 10). A megabyte is 1,000,000 characters or 1,000 Kilobytes.

· You may safely open the Recycle Bin now, but do not chose File > Restore, unless you are sure of what you are doing.

· Different types of objects have different property menus. You may safely right-click on desktop items to see their Properties menus.

· The last data or object saved to the Clipboard can later be pasted into documents.

· You can use the Edit menu to copy something to the Clipboard or just tap [Ctrl] C. [Ctrl] C very handy when an Edit menu is not present.

· You can use the Edit menu to retrieve or paste something from the Clipboard or just tap [Ctrl] V.

· The [Windows] key is found between the [Ctrl] and the [Alt] key. You may safely try [Windows] + E (to quickly open the Explorer) or [Windows] + F (to quickly Find files) or [Windows] + M (to quickly Minimize all Windows) now.

· You can use [Windows] + F or click on the Tools pull-down menu in the Explorer and select Find. You may safely try this now.

· If you right-click on an object, it will usually bring up a Properties menu that includes an option to create a shortcut.

· Be sure to back up important data. Also be sure to Save every 10 or 15 minutes, just in case of error or the power goes out.

· You should back up critical data at the end of every day. Preferably using a different backup set for each day or week.

· Instead of putting all of your data in one directory, a user might create a Work folder and a Home folder to keep files logically stored.

· A [+] symbol will often appear indicating that the file is being copied when you [Ctrl] drag a file to a new location on the same drive.

· Be careful. Moving system files to the wrong folder can cause your system to crash.

· You can see the properties of almost any object by right-clicking on its icon. You may safely minimize this program and view the properties of any desktop object.

· Shortcuts are simply icons that point to an application or program.

· You can delete most objects but clicking on the object and simply tapping the [Delete] key.

· You can use the Send To option to copy a file from the hard drive C: to your USB thumb drive.

· Adapter cards or interface boards are inserted into motherboards to allow the computer to communicate with other devices.

· You can access the Control Panel by clicking Start, Settings, Control Panel or Start, Control Panel. You may safely try this now.

· Printers, modems and scanners all require Drivers. Even with Plug and Play you may often need the manufacturer's driver disk.

· Adjusting the power settings, like the "sleep mode," can save both electricity and extend the life of your monitor.

· A few examples of the older important DOS commands are Format, Fdisk, Mscdex, Scandisk, and Sys.

· You can see a file's attributes by right-clicking on the file and selecting properties.

· A number of important system files are hidden so that new users do not accidentally delete them.

· Windows includes an easy to use paint program that can be launched by clicking Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint. You may safely open and examine the Paint program.

· OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding.

· The advantage of embedding is that one document contains everything.

· The advantage of linking is that the destination document is smaller and can automatically be updated.

· But the disadvantage of linked documents is that everything is in multiple files.

· When a linked object is double-clicked, Windows will often open up the source program where the original object was created.

· IP is an acronym for Internet Protocol. It is  unique address that identifies a specific server or workstation on the Internet

· URL is a Web address; it is also an acronym that stands for Universal Resource Locator.

· Large files downloaded from the Internet are often zipped to reduce download time.

· The Internet is a powerful way to download updates and utilities.

· Computer viruses are like human viruses. They have an incubation period and they are contagious. You may safely click Start > Programs and see if this computer has an AntiVirus program.

· The CMOS chip stores system configuration settings, such as hard drive size. This special chip requires very little electricity and uses a small battery for power. Watch the startup screen during bootup to see which keys are used on your particular system to enter the CMOS menu.

· The keys may be  Del, F1, F2 or certain key combinations are used, depending upon the manufacturer.

· DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) allow programs to share common code, instead of having redundancy, which would both waste space and may cause more incompatibility.

· Two main icon libraries (if you want to change an icon) are \Windows\moricons.dll and \Windows\System\shell32.dll

· A fragmented file is stored in Noncontiguous clusters. Noncontiguous means that the sectors are not next to each other.

· Often Windows will automatically boot you to the Safe mode when certain problems occur.

· Safe mode has a very low screen resolution and limited colors, but at least you can often boot and then try to resolve your problem.

· Be sure to safely store the installation diskettes or CDs that come with your printers, scanners, and modems.

· Readme files are usually just text files that contain notes about installation procedures, versions, and updates.

· The higher the resolution, the clearer the images are. You can set the resolution by right-clicking on the Desktop and choosing Properties from the shortcut menu.

· Most monitors today have higher resolutions - more dots that are closer together. Today 1280 x 1024 is common.

· The dots on the screen are called pixels. You can set the number of pixels through the Personalize option or the Display Properties Settings Tab.

· If you right-click on the desktop, the Personalize option or the Display Properties applet will allow you to view all of the settings. But do not make changes, unless you are sure of what you are doing.

· In most menus, [Alt] F can access the File menu, [Alt] E can access the Edit menu.

· Some people distribute Shareware as an easy marketing strategy, by just asking people to copy it and try it out.

· Both books and software can be Copyrighted and are illegal to copy and distribute.

· You cannot legally loan your copyrighted CD to a friend and let her install the program on her computer.