Microsoft Windows 10 Foundation Courseware

Microsoft Windows 10 Training Materials

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The Windows 10 Desktop

• What is the Windows Desktop?
• Desktop icons
• Moving Desktop icons
• Windows taskbar
• Showing hidden icons
• Taskbar clock
• Customizing your Desktop
• Customizing the Desktop background wallpaper picture
• Customizing the Desktop background color
• Setting a screen saver
• Modifying the computer date and time
• Setting the keyboard language and other regional settings

Manipulating Desktop Windows

• Drag and drop
• Select, then manipulate
• Single clicking vs. Double clicking
• Moving a window on the Desktop
• Resizing a window, narrower or wider
• Resizing a window, taller or shorter
• Resizing a window in two directions at once
• Maximizing a window
• Minimizing a window
• Closing a window
• The start button
• The start menu

Applications & the Desktop

• Multitasking
• Starting applications
• Finding applications such as WordPad
• Using print screen within WordPad
• Identifying the parts of an application window
• Title bar
• The ribbon
• Ribbon tabs
• Status bar
• Notepad
• Control panel
• Switching between program Windows
• Cascading Windows
• Displaying Windows side by side
• Installing programs
• Removing a program
• Shutting down the computer
• Restarting the computer

Help in Windows 10

• Using the search for help box
• Displaying basic information about your pc

File Explorer

• What are files?
• What are folders?
• Types of drive and drive letters
• Opening the Windows file explorer program
• Displaying or hiding the ribbon
• The file explorer window
• File explorer – folders
• File explorer – devices
• File explorer – network locations
• File explorer – downloads
• File explorer – Desktop
• File explorer – OneDrive
• File explorer – homegroup
• File explorer – this pc
• Displaying the contents of a particular folder
• Changing the view within the file explorer
• Changing the sort order in details view
• Drives, folders and files
• Data storage devices
• File sizes and disk storage capacities

Manipulating folders

• Creating a folder
• Creating a sub-folder
• File naming issues
• Renaming a folder
• Deleting a folder
• Displaying folder details

Manipulating files

• File types
• Selecting multiple files
• Counting files in a folder
• File attributes
• Renaming files
• Deleting files
• Restoring items from the recycle bin
• Emptying the recycle bin
• Permanently deleting a file (bypassing the recycle bin)
• Sometimes deleted files are too large to be recycled
• The Windows clipboard
• Moving files between folders
• Copying files between folders
• Backups
• Removable memory sticks – autoplay
• Backing up data to a removable drive
• Safely ejecting a memory stick
• What is file compression?
• Compressing files
• Extracting compressed files

Searching

• Searching for applications (programs)
• Searching for files on your hard disk
• Searching by file size
• Searching by kind
• Searching by file content

Printing issues

• Viewing the printers that are available to your pc
• Setting the default printer
• Installing a new printer
• Removing a printer
• Printing from an application

Viruses, spyware and cookies

• Computer viruses
• Spyware
• Cookies
• Virus checking programs
• Scanning for viruses
• Updating anti-virus programs