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> Windows 7 (and Vista) Tutorials

1 The Windows XP Desktop

1 The Windows 7 Desktop

2 Exploring the Start Menu

2 Desktop Wallpaper

3 How to Create a Desktop Shortcut

3 The Taskbar

4 The Hard Drive Explained

4 Setting the Date and Time

5 How Big is your Hard Drive?

5 Toolbars

6 The Windows Explorer tool

6 The Windows 7 Start Button

7 How to Create a New Folder

7 Share your computer with others

8 Moving Folders on your Hard Drive

8 Setting Parental Controls in Windows 7

9 Copy from a CD to a Hard Drive

9 hard_drives explained

10 Finding Files with Windows XP

10 The importance of file extensions

11 Windows XP and Wallpapers

11 Copying Pictures to a New Folder

12 How to change your Screen Saver

12 Adding Information to an Image

13. Zip and Unzip files with WinZip

13 Sorting Images

> Windows XP - Delving Deeper

14 How to take a Screenshot in Windows 7

1 Accessibility Options - StickyKeys

11 Windows XP User Account

2 Accessibility Options - FilterKeys

12 Windows XP Security Centre

3 Accessibility Options - Mouse

13 System Properties - General Tab

4 How to Install a New Font

14 Take your PC back to an earlier Date

5 Power Options

15 System Properties - Advanced

6 Folder Options

16 How to change your Home Page

7 Customize Your Folder Views

17 Internet Options - Security

8 Change the Sounds that Window XP makes

18 Privacy - What is a Cookie?

9 Task Bar Settings

19 Internet Options - Content Advisor

10 Customize Your Start Menu

20 Internet Options - AutoComplete

1. How to Set up an new Email account

6. Backup an Outlook Express Email Account

2 How to Add Email Attachments

7. Set up a Second Outlook Express Account

3. How to Backup Emails in Outlook Express

8. Add a Signature to all outgoing emails

4. How to Restore your Outlook Express Emails

9. Outlook Express Stationery

5. Backup an Outlook Express Address Book

10. Create your own stationery

> Outlook Express Email Tutorials

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5 What is a Trojan, and should I be worried?

2 How to tackle Spam

6 What is a RootKit

3 Anti-Virus Protection- Our Recommendation

7 Online Banking - Essential Security

4 Why you NEED a Firewall!

> Beginners Guide to Going Wireless 1 The Basics of Going Wireless

6 Going Wireless - What to Buy

2 Wireless Adaptors - you need one!

7 Belkin Wireless G+ MIMO Modem Router

3 Wireless Routers Explained - all the Jargon!

8 US Robotics Wireless MAXg

4 What are wireless signals?

9 Belkin Broadband Wireless Router

5 Are Wireless Signals Dangerous?

10 Buffalo AirStation G54 High Power

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Beginner's Computing The Windows XP Desktop   When you first switch your computer and monitor on, your screen might look something like this, in the link below (It's too big for this page!). Click here to see the desktop This is the Windows XP Desktop. There are a number of thing to notice about the Desktop. First, all those little pictures on top of the big picture. (Your screen may well be nice and colourful). There are 4 in the image above. The pictures are called icons. To get some practice with using your mouse, click on each of your Desktop icons. (If you have only one icon, the Recycle Bin, then practice with that for the time being. We'll see how to add shortcuts soon.) Click on them with your Left mouse button, a Single Click. You should notice that the icons change colour, usually blue. When they do change colour, the icon is said to be selected. Now click on any of your icons with the Right mouse button, again a Single Click. What happens now? You should see a menu popping up with a list of items on it. The menu pops up because of that Right Click - the Right click is usually a shortcut click. Each icon on your Desktop has a shortcut associated with it. Indeed, the icons themselves are shortcuts. Each picture is associated with a programme on your computer. When you clicked an icon with your left mouse button, the only thing that happened was that it turned a different colour. You had selected it by clicking the icon with your left mouse button. Now try to double click each icon with the Left mouse button and see what happens. You should find that some sort of software, or programme is launched. So the desktop icons are shortcuts to your programmes. That's why they are there - so that you can get at your programmes with a Double Click of your left mouse button.   Move on to the Next Part --> Options from them menu bar. From the Options dialogue box, click the Read tab. Put a tick in the box "Read all messages in plain text". The reason you'd want to do this is Content downloaded from www.homeandlearn.co.uk

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because HTML emails can be very helpful to spammers. They insert an image that tells them the email has been read, and thus that it's a live email box. Consider getting some Anti-Spam software. The best of these are very good at detecing spam from the genuine emails. Here's two that Computer Shopper recommended in a recent review. (Dec 2006) Allume SpamCatcher 4 Cloudmark These both got 5 stars out of 5 in the review. The second one is only for Outlook or Outlook Express users. (Mcafee anti-spam got 4 stars out of 5, incidentally, and Norton only got 2!) A good free anti-spam solution is SpamPal. This got 4 out of 5 stars, but Computer Shopper noted that it was a bit "clunky to set up". But we recommend you start with the free software first, and test it out. If it's not catching at least 90% of spam coming in, then uninstall it and try something else!