COMPUTER INFO

All windows accept a appellation bar beyond the top and some windows, depending on the affairs that's active in them, ability additionally accept a card bar and apparatus bar. Here's and archetype from Microsoft Word:
                               
                               
                             
                                                              

Today's technology tip is about those little buttons and icons that you see every day but may not apperceive the name of. For archetype how abounding of these items can you point to on your desktop appropriate now?

ICONS: The little pictures that represent files or programs. Here are some sample icons:  



Shortcut to Word:
 
     Shortcut to GradeQuick:



A Word Document: 

 

3.MY COMPUTER: The desktop figure from which you can cross your way through the assorted drives, folders and files on your computer
                                                              
                                             The “My Computer” Icon:
                                                    
4.FOLDERS: The basal authoritative anatomy in Microsoft Windows. Like a behemothic filing chiffonier your computer uses folders to adapt aggregate in it. Here are some sample binder Icons:

  


                                                 


                                                                   
                                     Details View

                                                                

Have you anytime fabricated a mistake? I beggarly a aberration on the computer. You know, pasted the amiss account into a Word certificate or messed up a table or a argument box. The programmers of the Microsoftcomputer application (Word, Outlook, Excel, Publisher, etc.) knew we would accomplish mistakes so they programmed in a brace of means to “undo” them. Here are a few means to disengage your abutting mistake:
  
OPTION #1: On the card bar baddest “Edit” and again “Undo.” This will
eliminate the aftermost activity you took in the program. For example, if you aloof typed the amiss chat “Edit” & “Undo” will accomplish the chat go away.

OPTION #2: On the apparatus bar you can use this button to disengage something
you just did:

If you adjudge that you appetite the aberration aback you can use this button to
bring it back: 

OPTION #3: There's additionally a keyboard adjustment to disengage article you aloof did. Try application CTRL + Z to disengage and CTRL + Y to accompany article aback that you undid.

Please agenda than in abounding arrangement environments you may not be able to accomplish any changes to your desktop. In best schools this advantage has been blocked for both acceptance and staff. But you can still accomplish shortcuts in your folders.

Your computer came with lots of acceptedcomputer application that you ability not alike be acquainted of. In a antecedent technology tip we showed you how to admission the calculator on your computer. Today's technology tip will appearance you how to admission a actual simple affairs for manipulating images and aloof doodling.

Fill up a Shape with a color in:
 
With some analysis you can accomplish some simple drawings. If you don't like how it's activity you can consistently alpha over by activity to "File" and selecting "New" to bright your assignment area. If you like your art assignment you ability appetite to save it by selecting "Save" off the "File" menu.
 

Have you anytime started accounting something, again backed up into your book to add a word? Usually back you do this the curser pushes the words afterwards the one you are abacus so your fresh chat can be added to the sentence. But sometimes the curser starts accounting appropriate over the words in your book rather than inserting the fresh chat into your sentence. This is alleged overtyping and it’s a affection that can be toggled on and off application the “Insert” button on your keyboard:

Monitor                                                 Computer CPU





             Keyboard
                                                                               
   Mouse                                                                       Wireless Router






                          Printer
Other items that are technically accouterments but abounding bodies aberration for software: Compact disks (CD's), Flash Drives, 3.5" Diskettes, DVD's. Though these items abundancecomputer application they are, added specifically, accouterments accessories for autumn software.

In the alpha there was the pen, cardboard and a allowance abounding of monks. Eventually this was replaced by the typewriter and carbon cardboard (if you’ve never heard of carbon cardboard afore here’s a articulation to: The Exciting History of Carbon Paper). When computers came out there was a abundant appetite to actualize “hardcopies” or printouts of whatever the computer did. Initially they affiliated buzzer machines to aboriginal computers but these were eventually replaced with dot cast printers. By the backward 1980’s the old dot cast printers, with their blowzy ink ribbons and compatible letter spacing, were actuality replaced by more good technologies.

Here’s a articulation to alike added if you’re curious: http://www.micron.com/k12/lessonplans/zerosones/asciibinary.html
So, in absolutely cool simplified terms, back I blazon the letter “L” the computer translates that to be the BYTE “01001100." If I typed the letter “L” 50 times that would be 50 BYTES of information. If I typed the letter “L” 1000 times that would be 1000 BYTES or 1 KiloByte or 1KB. Actually Bytes are abstinent in admiral of 2 so 1KB isn't absolutely 1000 bytes, but it is abutting enough. Below is a blueprint of accepted abbreviations and their absolute ethics in bytes:

Name	Abbreviation	Actual Size in Bytes
KiloBytes	KB	1024
MegaBytes	MB	1,048,576
GigaBytes	GB	1,073,741,824

You may accept apparent added bodies with them, you ability alike accept one of your own. They’re the newest and best acceptable way to abundance abstracts and they attending like these:

They additionally go by assorted names: USB Drives, Flash Memory, Flash Drives or alike Thumb Drives:
                        Here's a articulation to the top 10 weirdest attractive USB drives
                         http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-usb-drives-ever/

                                                         
             

This primarily applies to problems you ability accept with your computer at home but it can appear anywhere. While alive on your computer did you anytime get an active bulletin and you had no abstraction what it meant? You know, article that looks like this:

You can use the calculator that appears by either application your abrasion to bang the buttons or by application the cardinal keypad on the appropriate ancillary of your keyboard.



Note that the computer uses "/" for analysis and "*" for multiplication.

If there’s annihilation computers are absolutely acceptable at its bombastic tasks, they adulation them. We bodies invented computers because we abhorrence accomplishing the aforementioned affair afresh and again. Every computer has this adeptness to absolution their animal operators from the bullwork of redundancy. But how do you absolve this bewitched ability central your desktop computer?

Get a line to copy and paste:

Here’s article I abstruse from a 7th grader:

Directions: Read aggregate afore you do anything

1.Columnist CTRL + ALT + the up arrow key (see below)
Now bethink that a 7th grader showed me that afterwards I had spent 5 account aggravating to fix a adviser that was set upside bottomward by addition student. You will accordingly acquisition that generally the kids are advanced of the adults back it comes to computers. It’s OK, that’s aloof the way it is.

At atomic you apperceive how to cast your awning aback if anyone messes with it.

And if this action didn't assignment on your computer it aloof agency you ability accept a altered adaptation of Windows (other than XP) or this accurate affection may accept been disabled. But if you anytime see an upside bottomward awning you'll apperceive what to do.