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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