Windows 7 Foundation Training Materials
Courseware Training Materials
Foundation / Intermediate level computer training materials for delivering training to your students, staff or clients. A courseware site licence allows you to train an unlimited number of people, at your training center using these teaching resources
Windows 7 Training Materials for IT TrainersTraining Course Outlines
VIRUSES, SPYWARE AND COOKIES
- Computer viruses
- Spyware
- Cookies
- Virus checking programs
- Scanning for viruses
- Updating anti-virus programs
A FIRST LOOK AT WINDOWS 7
- Windows 7 – Different versions
- Windows Aero
- Starting Windows 7
- Moving a window
- Drag and drop
- Select, then manipulate
- Single clicking vs. double clicking
- 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
- Running a program using the Start menu
- Entering text into a program
- Saving data
- Opening a file within a program
- Shutting down Windows
- Closing an application that is not responding
THE WINDOWS 7 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
- Enabling or disabling the Windows Aero Desktop
- Setting a screen saver
- Setting your screen resolution
- Modifying the computer date and time
- Setting the computer keyboard language and other regional settings
- Setting the computer sound volume
APPLICATIONS & GADGETS
- Multitasking
- Starting WordPad
- Using Print Screen within WordPad
- Identifying the parts of an application window
- Notepad
- Calculator
- Getting Started Window
- Switching between programs
- Using Windows Flip 3D – Requires Aero
- Cascading windows
- Displaying windows side by side
- Show Desktop Shortcut
- Peek – Requires Aero to be enabled
- Shake – Requires Aero to be enabled
- Snap – Requires Aero to be enabled
- Jump Lists
- Installing programs
- Removing programs
- Creating and using a Desktop shortcut
- Deleting a Desktop shortcut
- Viewing Recent Items
- Shutting down an application that has frozen
- Restarting the computer
- Opening gadgets
- To customize a gadget
- To close a gadget
HELP
- Using the ‘Getting Started’ Window
- Finding out what’s new in Windows 7
- Displaying the Help and Support window.
- Searching for help
- Printing Help pages
- Browsing for Help
- Displaying basic information about your PC
WINDOWS EXPLORER
- What are files?
- What are folders?
- Types of drive and drive letters
- Running the Windows Explorer program
- Views within the Windows Explorer
- Expanding and contracting drives and folders
- Drives, Folders and Files
- Data storage devices
- File sizes and disk storage capacities
- Online Storage
MANIPULATING FOLDERS
- Navigating to the samples folder
- Creating a folder
- Creating a subfolder
- File naming issues
- Renaming a folder
- Deleting a folder
- Displaying folder details
MANIPULATING FILES
- Viewing file details
- Sorting the file listing
- 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
- The Windows Clipboard
- Moving files between folders
- Copying files between folders
- Backups
- Online Backups
- Removable Memory Sticks – AutoPlay
- Backing up data to a removable drive
- Disk formatting
- Safely ejecting a memory stick
- What is file compression?
- Compressing files
- Extracting compressed files
SEARCHING
- Searching for files on your hard disk
- Opening the Search Window
- Searching by file size
- Searching by Kind
- Searching by Type
- Searching by Date Modified
- Searching by file content
- Searching using partial file names
PRINTING ISSUES
- Viewing the printers that are available to your PC
- Installing a new printer
- Changing the default printer
- Removing a printer
- Printing from an application
- Controlling print jobs