Basic Computer LessonsHi welcome to the basic computer lessons area. I'm glad you decided to look in on us. Everyone from young to old needs to have computer skills.If your new to computers you have a lot to learn. That does not mean that it's hard or that you can't do it. Please spend all the time you need doing the computer tutorials until it feels natural to you. If you have been using computers for awhile and just have a few questions, basic computer lessons may not be what you are looking for but you might find some answers here. You may want to check out everything, you never know you might find out something you never knew before. If you don't find the answer to "what you seek" please use the contact form and ask me, I will try to answer your question. The typical home computer consists of a Monitor, a Mouse and the computer itself. The computer itself or box as I call it, could be a desk top, tower, mini tower or maybe even a laptop. The important thing is that you understand the real work being done is inside the box. The box will house some extras as well usually a CD-Rom or DVD, a Floppy drive, a Sound card, a Network card and possibly a Modem. If you don't know what all of these things are it's ok for now. We can review the Computer Terms section together later to find out what all the terms or names mean. These basic computer lessons are just the beginning, later we will discuss more advanced topics. The computer mouse in it's most basic form has a left and right button and usually a little wheel called a scroll wheel. So now you can left click, right click, double click, click and drag, click and hold click click and more click. Easy isn't it? Your keyboard is where you do your typing some people have excellent typing skills and others have two finger typing skills all it means is one finishes before the other. Here is some information on using your keyboard. Lets look at how we can control the program-windows that show up on our desktop when we start a program. Your doing great so far, Now that you know how to use your mouse and your keyboard lets go a bit deeper into the computer. The Explorer program is a file manager. Think of it like a filing cabinet with file folders. We have all at one time or another lost a file I'm going to show you how to find that file you lost. Basic computer lessons would not be complete without looking at the Windows Search function. Hi it's nice to have you back again, now you know how to find anything your looking for on your computer. Basic Computer lessons really help the novice or beginner computer user to understand how to go about using their new found technology. Computer tutorials are the best learning tool if they are available. Anyone taking basic computer lessons needs to know how to use a word processor. Let's go have some fun with a word processor. Welcome back, e-mail is the easiest way of keeping in touch with all the people you know. What use to take a week or more to get delivered can now be delivered in seconds or minutes. Many people have a difficult time using e-mail after the initial sending of one. Here we will do an e-mail tutorial and see if some e-mail help will let you better understand all of it. So without wasting anymore time e-mail here we come. There is so much to do in e-mail so let's have a part 2, a part3 and finally a part4.
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