Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft Windows

• Windows XP (2001 ? 2007)
• Service Pack 1, 2, 3
• Windows Vista (2007 ? ?)
• Service Pack 1
• Editions
• Home Basic, Home Premium
• Business, Enterprise (? UNIBZ)
• Ultimate
• Windows 7 (2010)

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Applications bar

• Start menu
• Programs
• Disconnect icons
• Control panel ?
• ? Clock, Language and Region ? Regional and
  Language Options
• Change Display Language
• ? Formats ? Customize
• ? Hardware and Sound ? Printers ? Add Printer
• Users home and Documents
• Quick launch icons
• Running programs

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The computer locks

• Press the X on your program window
• CTRLSHIFTESC ?
• Choose your program and end it!
• CTRLALTDEL ? Shut Down
• Turn off your computer
• Warning you will lose your unsaved work!

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File system

• Control panel ? Appearance and Personalization ?
  Folder option ? View ? Unselect Hide
  extensions
• Tree structure
• Disks
• UNIBZ C (programs), E (courses), F (your homes)
• Directories
• Absolute address
• Files
• Links

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File types

• Programs (run directly) .exe .com .bat
• Compressed (WinZip or IZArc or Windows) .zip
• Text files (Notepad) .txt .csv
• Documents (Word) .docx .rtf .txt
• Documents (Acrobat reader) .pdf
• Sheets (Excel) .xlsx .csv
• Images (depends) .jpg .jpeg .gif .bmp
• Movies (depends) .avi .mov .mpg .mpeg
• Audio (depends) .mp3 .wav
• Web pages (Explorer) .html .htm

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File handling

• Run and Open and Open with
• Copy and Move
• Rename
• Delete
• Link
• Compress files
• WinZip, IZArc, Windows itself
• Extract files before modifying them!!!

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File sharing

• Multiple access problem
• File permissions
• Users and groups
• Administrators
• Authorizations
• Read
• Read and Execute (for programs)
• List content (for directories)
• Write
• Full control

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Network directories

• \\ubz01fst\courses\course_coletti
• \\ubz01fst\courses\exam_coletti\LOGINNAME
• \\ubz01fst\students\...\...\LOGINNAME
• Max 150 MB disk space (emails do not count)
• When you log off ? desktop, disk F and
  configuration are saved here, only if you have
  enough space
• If you do not have space, delete your huge files
  from here (not from Desktop or disk E)!!!