Icons
In todays lesson we are going to learn about finding your way around the computer.
Switching on, make sure there are no disks in any drives and press the power switch. You may need to check that the monitor is switched on aswel.
If you are working on a network (you are when at school) you will probably be asked for a username and password.
Once you have logged in the computer will load your desktop, you will see a coloured background or more likely a picture and some sybols which are called icons.
To "print" a copy of your screen to the clipboard for pasting into any other document you can hit the print screen button on your keyboard and then paste the image into an application for editing or inclusion in a document.
Use print screen to paste images of the following into a word document and email them to me.
- A Directory/folder icon
- A file icon
- The Desktop
- An Application Icon
- The Recycle Bin Icon
- A Printer Icon
- the task bar
- the system tray
- a tool tip
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