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.You reback at the desktop now.To test your selection, click any desktop icon.If it opens, you ve selected single-clicking.If it doesn topen, you must have selected double-clicking.In that case, try double-clicking any icon to open it.Toclose whatever window the icon opens, do the usual thing.Click the Close (X) button in the upper-rightcorner of the window.Logging Off, Shutting DownYour computer is not a TV.One of the most common mistakes newbies make when using a PC issimply to turn off the PC when they re done.This is not good because it doesn t give you, or yourcomputer, a chance to save any changes you made or any work you accomplished.The first thing youwant to do when you plan to shut down your computer  or even just plan to walk away from it for awhile  is save any work in progress.In this chapter, you haven t created anything, so there s nothingto save.But for future reference, bear in mind that anything left unsaved on your screen is likely to gobye-bye forever if you don t remember to save your work before shutting down your computer.Tip As you ll learn in Chapter 3, you can easily save your work at any time.In fact, it s agood idea to save your work every few minutes, just to make sure you don taccidentally lose it.You can end your session at the computer a few different ways.If you share this computer with others,and want to leave it on for them, you can just log off.Doing so will allow others to log on immediately,but they won t be able to see or change any of your stuff.To log off, follow these steps:1.Click the Start button.2.Click the Log Off button near the bottom of the menu.3.Click the Log Off button that appears.The Welcome screen shown back near the beginning of this chapter reappears.The computer is stillrunning, so another user can log on simply by clicking his or her user name.To shut down the computer altogether, or put it to sleep so to speak, so that it consumes little or noelectricity, follow these steps:1.Click the Start button.2.Click the Turn Off Computer button near the bottom of the menu.The Turn Off Computer dialogbox displays (see Figure 1-17, although your options may vary)Figure 1-17: The Turn Off Computer dialog box3.Choose one of the following options (as available):Hibernate: Saves everything on the screen and puts the computer into a minimalpower-consumption state.When you restart the computer, the desktop will lookexactly as you left it (hopefully).Standby (if available): Puts the computer into a minimal power-consumptionstate, but does not save current settings.Restart will be quicker than if you hadturned off.But you ll be returned to an empty desktop.Turn Off: Turns the computer all the way off.Nothing is saved, no power isconsumed while the computer is off, and restarting will be from scratch.(Thecomputer will go through the POST again at restart.)page 21Windows XP BibleRestart: Briefly shuts off the computer, and then instantly restarts it.Also knownas rebooting.Required after certain kinds of hardware and software installations,and also after a serious  crash when something has caused your computer tostart acting weird.Your computer might show additional instructions at this point.Most likely, however, the computer willjust shut down (or go to sleep.) Note that if you selected Turn Off, chances are your computer willindeed shut itself off.So you don t need to press the Power button on the system unit to finish the job.However, some older computers don t have this capability, in which case you will need to press themain Power button to complete the shutdown procedure.As a safety device, to prevent accidentalshutdown, some computers require that you press the Power button and hold it there for four or fiveseconds before the computer actually shuts down.SummaryIn this chapter, you learned the most important of Windows XP basic skills.My goal in this chapter hasbeen to help those of you who are new to this program become comfortable with using the mouse andget a sense for the way things work.Chapter 2 rounds out what you have learned here and hopefullyanswers any questions that might have popped into your mind as you read this chapter.Here s a quickrecap of the important points covered in this chapter:Windows XP is an operating system  the mandatory program that makes everything workbehind the scenes, and also determines how you, the user, will interact with the computer toget things done.To start Windows XP, just turn on your computer.(First make sure there is no floppy disk in thefloppy drive.)After Windows XP has successfully started, you are taken to the Windows desktop, your  homebase from which you ll start all projects, and where you ll end up when you ve finished.To point to an item (or hover over an item) means to move the mouse pointer (using yourmouse) so that it s touching the item.To click an item means to point to it and then press and release the primary (left) mouse button.Double-click means to do the same, but you press and release the primary mouse buttontwice in rapid succession.To right-click an item means to point to it and then press and release the secondary (mouse)button [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]