Lesson Nine –A
review of Navigation on the Desktop and in E-mail
We can use the right click on our mouse to help with a variety of functions on the desktop and in e-mail. We talked about how you can check attachments without opening them. You can check to see if you are the victim of a virus or worm if the sender of the message does not give you the necessary reason to open the attachment in the body of the message forwarded to you. Everyone should be sure to inform the person who is receiving the e-mail that you are the one sending an attachment.
When you have completed installing a download from your desktop you can click and drag the setup folder to the trash bin. To empty the trash bin, you right click on it, and a pull down menu will appear. Click on the delete and the bin will empty.
Some have inquired where the downloads have gone on their computer.
You should notice where the programs are downloaded to when you begin the process. Example, C:\ Documents download folder
1. If you have not done so, make a folder in your documents and call it "my downloads." This folder will keep your downloads in a place where you can locate them.
2. Go to Start, Documents to check for downloads. If they are there you can click on them and begin the installation process.
3. Most of the newer versions of Windows have installation wizards that install the program for you.
4. If the program is on your desktop you can install it by clicking on it there. The program will ask if you want an icon on your desktop and put it there for you during installation.
Search engines.
Theses search engines can locate all of the information you can ever want to find.
If you want to install a program or utility we have talked about in class and cannot find a site to do it from then go to www.google.com Type in the name of the program and you will find many sites to choose from for installation.
For example we talked about the utility End it All in class. It is a program that should be used to close out the programs running in the background on your computer before starting to install a new download.
To install this program go to www.google.com and type in the search area” end it all “ the search will bring up a number of sites. I recommend, Aptiva Tool Box end it all 2, for the site to download. Just click on the Blue hyperlink Aptiva and it will take you to the site for the download. This is a good program but it comes with strong warnings. It will only stop the programs that are non-essential to your computer so you can do downloads faster. When you turn off your computer, the programs will go back to the default mode, and be ready to run again when you turn the computer back on.
Zone Alarm can be found at other sites than the one mentioned in the lesson. You can go to www.google.com and do a search for it there to locate other sites to down load it from.
If you want to use the free anti virus program AVG you need to remove the current anti virus program on your computer first before you install it.
You can go to Start, Programs and look at the program to see if an uninstall program is located there. If it is click on it and your program will be uninstalled.
You can also do this by going to Start, Control Panel and click on "Add or Remove Programs." Scroll down the programs to locate the program you want to uninstall. You click on the program to highlight the program and click on the uninstall button below the window. The program is now uninstalled and you are ready to install a new program Before starting the download a new program remember to click the end it all icon of skull and crossbones on your desktop to stop the programs running in the background before beginning the download. You are now ready to install AVG anti virus. Go to www.google.com and do a search for AVG. Locate a site to install the free version.
Don’t forget that the arrow marks at the end of the address bar contain the other sites you have visited so you do not have to retype the web page addresses every time. Just click on the arrow and the pull down menu will appear with the previous sites listed. Click on the site and it will appear in the address bar and go there for you.
Favorites can be saved by clicking on “Favorites” on the tool bar, and then the save in the left column that appears You can click and drag to move the favorites around in the list. For those of you on AOL the heart on the web page can be clicked on to save to the favorites on the tool bar.
Our web page is full of sites you can go to on the Internet to get free downloads.
Happy Computing, Corinne