Introduction to Windows 7 - Computing Fundamentals - page 111

Step by Step

Starting an.Application
Follow these steps to start an application:

1 Click Start.

2 If you see a shortcut for the application you want, click it. Otherwise, do one of the following:

◾ Click All Programs and then click the application you want. Click a folder to open it if needed.

◾ Start typing the application name and then click the name when it appears at the top of the Start menu.

Manipulating a Window
As the name implies, Microsoft Windows is based on windows —
movable rectangular blocks in which different types of content appear.
When you run an application, it appears in its own window, and when
you browse a file listing, that listing appears in its own window too.
Figure 5.6 illustrates some basic parts of a window.

window A movable rectangular block in which
content appears.

Figure.5 6 Each window has these features in common.

The title bar is the bar across the top of the window. If the window
holds an application, it shows the application's name. If the application
has a file open, it also shows the file's name. You can move a window
around onscreen by dragging its title bar.

title bar The bar across the top of a window
that shows the window's name; you can move the
window by dragging it.

The buttons at the far-right end of the title bar control the window's size.

◾ Minimize: Hides the window by shrinking it down to a but-

ton on the taskbar. Use this button to get a window out of the way
temporarily without closing it.

minimize To shrink the window to a button on
the taskbar.

◾ Maximize: Enlarges the window to fill the entire screen.

When a window is already maximized, this button changes to a
Restore button, which returns the window to the size it was before
you maximized it.

maximize To enlarge the window to fill the entire
screen.

restore To change a window from its maximized
or minimized state to the size it was before it was
maximized or minimized.

◾ Close : Closes the window, exiting the application that was

open in it (if applicable).