Windows 95 Basic Courseware Outline
What is Windows 95?
- What's Wrong With DOS?
- What's Wrong With Windows 3.x?
- Windows 95 Hardware Requirements
- Friendly Installation Wizard
- The Windows 95 Desktop
- The Start Button
- The Taskbar
- The Recycle Bin
- My Computer
Network Neighborhood
- What Does Windows 95 Give You?
- For Upgrades: Where is the Program Manager, File Manager, MS-DOS Prompt, Control Panel and Print Manager?
Window Components and Selection Techniques
- The Title Bar
- Scroll Bars
- Maximize, Minimize, Restore and Close Buttons
- Borders
- The Control Menu icon
- Dialog Boxes
- Text Boxes
- List Boxes
- Drop Down List Boxes
- Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
- Command Buttons
- Tabs
- Mouse selection techniques
- Keyboard selection techniques
- Drag and drop techniques
- The other mouse button
- What are Property Sheets?
Starting to Use Windows 95
- What is the Start Button
- The Start Menu, Programs, Documents, Settings, Find, Help Topics, Run & Shutdown
- The StartUp Folder
- What is the Taskbar?
- Controlling applications from the Taskbar
- Customizing the Taskbar
- Tiling and Cascading Windows
- Arranging your Desktop Icons
- Adding programs to your Start Menu
- Creating a new file directly from the Desktop
Help Within Windows 95
- Help Within the Start Menu
- Using F1 Help
- Contents and Index
- The Help Toolbar, Using Index Help
- 'What's This?' Help
- Wizards
- Troubleshooting
- Using Help
The Windows 95 Accessories
- What is Word Pad
- WordPad
- Creating and saving a new document
- WordPad
- Editing an existing document
- What is Paint?
- Paint
- Drawing Tools
- Using text within Paint
- The Calculator
- The Clock
The Explorer, My Computer and the Recycle Bin
- What are Drives, Folders and Files?
- The Explorer vs My Computer
- The Explorer Window
- Long file names
- Folder Selection techniques
- Switching drives
- Folder creation
- Moving or copying files and folders
- Renaming files or folders
- Deleting files or folders
- The Recycle Bin and deleted files
- Customizing the File Display within Explorer
- Sorting files within the Explorer
- File Searches
- Starting programs via the Explorer
- File Association techniques
- Adding icons to the Desktop
Printing
- What is a Printer Driver?
- Installing a printer driver
- Setting up a Printer
- Default and installed printers
- Controlling Print Queues
- Fonts and Windows 95
- Viewing installed fonts
- Installing new fonts
- Removing fonts
The Clipboard, 'Drag and Drop' and OLE
- Basic Clipboard concept
- What is OLE?
- Linking vs Embedding
- Compound Document
- In-place activation of embedded objects
- Linking in action
- Excel and Word
