Acquiring a grasp of fundamental concepts and techniques will make your computer experience ever so more productive and far less stressful. This topic is designed to give you the confidence and competence to carry out basic tasks.
- Duration: 8 hrs over 2 x 4 hour sessions. We work in blocks of no more than 90 minutes with a short 10 minute break for tea/coffee
- Time: Win 7/Vista 8:30am-12:30pm, Win XP 1:30pm-5:30pm Sundays
- Dates: see the classes calendar on the right
- Cost: $200. Bring a friend and reduce the cost to $180 each
- Provided: manuals, USB memory stick (yours to keep), tea + coffee + nibblies
Topics
- A layman’s view of the parts of a computer and what they do
- All about the desktop. Function of the various parts of the desktop and how to modify and customise the desktop
- Various functions of the mouse and its buttons
- Using key combinations to save effort
- Opening and using programs – various possibilities
- Installing and uninstalling programs
- Working with text – some basic operations
- Organising your work into a useful system – putting files, pictures and stuff into organised folders and getting them back again. File operations – copying, moving, renaming, deleting, recovering
- Saving your work
- Backing up your work – different options and the advantages of each
- Maintenance – basic tasks you can perform to keep your computer running at its best
- Protecting yourself against the bad guys – a discussion around viruses, malware and scams.
[...] Computer Essentials [...]
[...] Computer Essentials [...]