IT Services Training Guide Microsoft Windows 7 IT Services Training Team The University of Manchester email: [email protected] www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/trainingcourses/coursesforstaff Version 1.0 Table of Contents Starting and Exiting Windows ......................................................................................... 6 Objectives .................................................................................................................... 6 Starting your computer and logging on ......................................................................... 6 Restarting your computer .............................................................................................. 8 Ending your Windows session ...................................................................................... 10 Locking your computer ............................................................................................... 10 Logging off ................................................................................................................. 10 Putting the computer to sleep ..................................................................................... 11 Shutting down your computer ..................................................................................... 11 The Desktop ............................................................................................................... 11 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 11 Recognising Desktop components ................................................................................ 11 The Taskbar and Taskbar buttons ................................................................................ 12 Using the Taskbar to open windows and programs .................................................... 12 Jump lists ................................................................................................................... 13 Pinning items to the Taskbar and Start menu ............................................................. 14 The Internet Explorer button ....................................................................................... 14 The Windows Explorer button .................................................................................... 15 The Start button and Start menu .................................................................................. 17 The Notification area ................................................................................................... 18 Taskbar and Start menu properties ............................................................................... 18 Adding and removing toolbars .................................................................................... 18 Locking, unlocking and moving the Taskbar ............................................................... 19 Taskbar settings ......................................................................................................... 19 Start menu settings .................................................................................................... 20 Toolbar settings .......................................................................................................... 21 Desktop Themes ......................................................................................................... 22 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 22 About Desktop themes ................................................................................................ 22 Choosing a Desktop theme .......................................................................................... 22 Changing the Desktop background ............................................................................... 23 Changing the window colour ........................................................................................ 25 Choosing a screen saver .............................................................................................. 26 Saving a theme ........................................................................................................... 28 Deleting a theme ........................................................................................................ 28 System Information and Settings .................................................................................. 29 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 29 The Control Panel ....................................................................................................... 29 Control Panel views .................................................................................................... 30 Viewing basic system information ................................................................................. 30 Changing the screen resolution .................................................................................... 31 Changing the date and time ......................................................................................... 33 Changing the volume settings ...................................................................................... 35 Keyboard layouts ........................................................................................................ 36 Installing a keyboard language ................................................................................... 36 Switching keyboard layouts ........................................................................................ 39 User Accounts and Family Safety .................................................................................. 40 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 40 About user accounts .................................................................................................... 40 Accessing user accounts ............................................................................................ 41 Changing the picture for your own user account ............................................................ 41 Creating a password for your own user account ............................................................. 42 Changing the password for your own user account ........................................................ 43 Viewing the parental control settings for your own Standard user account ....................... 44 Accessing all user accounts .......................................................................................... 44 Turning the Guest account on and off ........................................................................... 46 Creating a new user account ........................................................................................ 47 Editing a user account ................................................................................................. 48 Deleting a user account ............................................................................................... 48 Setting parental controls .............................................................................................. 50 Time limits .................................................................................................................. 51 Games ....................................................................................................................... 51 Allow and block specific programs .............................................................................. 52 Getting Help ............................................................................................................... 53 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 53 Windows Help and Support .......................................................................................... 53 Windows Explorer ....................................................................................................... 55 About Windows Explorer .............................................................................................. 55 Starting Windows Explorer ........................................................................................... 56 Closing Windows Explorer .......................................................................................... 58 Folder views and layout ............................................................................................... 58 Showing and hiding the preview pane ........................................................................ 59 Changing the layout ................................................................................................... 60 Showing the menu bar temporarily ............................................................................. 61 Folder types ............................................................................................................... 61 Navigating folders ....................................................................................................... 62 Expanding and collapsing folders in the Navigation pane ........................................... 63 Adding a folder to the Favorites list ...........................................................................