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
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
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 Double-click to view/change

Click icons to start programs 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

top of the Start Menu:
1. Click the All Programs
button
2. Find the program’s entry
3. Right-click the entry
A shortcut menu pops up
4. 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)

5. 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  Task-Oriented interface

interface in My Documents and
 More stable program My Computer
core  New Shut Down
 New Graphics Options
 Clean Desktop  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 Desktop Upgrade Web site
 VTC Multimedia Training modules on many
aspects of XP
 Windows Help and Support on your Start menu

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