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Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Guidebook.  You will learn about Windows' terms and navigation and take a brief look at file management in Windows.  This information will be useful when you play "The Adventures of Dr. Tekno:  The Search for the Brigands of the South Seas," our game.  Select a topic to learn about by clicking on the topic name or number.  To get to this Table of Contents any time, click on the Windows Guidebook icon.
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Windows Overview
Windows is a graphic system called a Graphical User Interface (GUI).  This means you can use your programs and files by pointing to a picture and selecting them with either the keyboard or a mouse.  When running a Windows application, you can use other applications at the same time.  This flexibility exists because Windows can keep track of several applications at once.
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Windows features
Windows provides everything you need to manage your applications and files easily and efficiently.  Windows allows you to run more than one application at a time, and to transfer information between applications quickly and easily.
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What is an icon?
Icons are pictures that represent various types of applications and files.  In a Windows-based application, an icon represents a program or file that is closed but available for access.
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What is a Windows group?
A group is a collection of program icons that represent applications.  They are grouped into one Program Manager group window.  The one shown here is called the MAIN Group.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Starting Windows
There are two ways to start Windows.  From the MS-DOS prompt (usually C:\), you can type in WIN.  You can also insert a command in AUTOEXEC.BAT for Windows to start when your system boots.  Once Windows is running, your workspace is called the desktop.  An example of a desktop is shown.  The windows can be arranged side by side as shown (called Tile mode), or in an overlapping Cascade mode.
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Program Manager
When you start Windows, the first window that you see after a logo screen is the Program Manager Window.  The Program Manager is central to the operation of Windows.  It organizes your applications into groups of icons and then lets you start the applications quickly and easily by clicking on icons.  Most people use a mouse to navigate in Windows, but you can also use the keyboard.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Working with a Window
You can change the size and shape of windows using your mouse and control areas.  You move windows around on the screen by clicking and dragging on the TITLE BAR.  Windows uses scrolling boxes for text.  The SCROLL BAR to the right of the box is used to move around in the text.  Windows has a tutorial called the Windows 3.1 Tutorial for these manipulation skills.  To access the Windows 3.1 Tutorial, select the icon from the Learning Center.
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Minimizing and Maximizing
There are two buttons in the upper right of most windows that can enlarge or shrink a window.  Clicking the maximize button enlarges the window to fit the desktop.  Clicking the minimize button shrinks the application to an icon on the bottom of your desktop.  You can minimize group or application windows. When an application is minimized, it is still running, but its window is not open.  To reopen it, double click on the icon.  On the screen are two examples of minimized windows -- Games and Startup.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Getting help
In the menu bar of most windows applications is a selection called HELP.  It is normally on the far right of the menu bar. 
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When you have selected Help, the help menu allows you to select topics.  The Contents selection gives you a display of the choices you have.
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This is an example of a Contents menu.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Exiting Windows
You may want to go to MS-DOS without exiting Windows.  To get the MS-DOS prompt from Windows, click on the MS-DOS icon.  Once in MS-DOS, a message on the screen tells you to type in EXIT to return to Windows.  There are things, like running some MS-DOS utilities, that you cannot do in MS-DOS when Windows is running.  To run these utilities you must exit Windows by closing Program Manager.
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Exiting Windows by Closing Program Manager
When you close all applications, you return to the Program Manager.  If you close Program Manager, you exit Windows.  To do this, select the Exit option on the File Menu.  A dialog box verifies the action and then takes you to MS-DOS.  In this process, Windows is NOT running.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the menu, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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What is File Manager?
File manager is a powerful tool to help organize your files and directories.  You can use File Manager to view files and directories or to build a directory structure that makes sense to you.  You can use File Manager to move and copy files, start applications, print documents, and maintain disks.  To learn more about files and directory structure, refer to your MS-DOS Guidebook.
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Starting File Manager
To start the File Manager, select the File Manager icon (normally in MAIN).
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When you start File Manager, a directory window is displayed, showing the contents of the current drive.  This directory window is split.  The left half shows the Directory Tree or the structure of the directories on the disk, and the right half lists the files in the open directory.  The directory structure begins at the upper left with the Root Directory.  Other directories branch below the root directory.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Creating a new directory
To create a new directory, highlight the directory that you want to be the parent of the new directory.  In this example the root directory is our parent, so C:\ is highlighted.  In the File menu there is a selection called Create Directory.  You would click on Create Directory to bring up the Create Directory dialog box.
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Create Directory dialog box
The Create Directory dialog box is shown here.  The Name box is for the name of the new directory.  In this example, we have used the directory name "Compaq".
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Notice that the new directory name, Compaq, appears on the C:\ tree.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Move or Copy Files and Directories
You can move and copy files and directories from a source location to a destination location by dragging them with the mouse or by using the Copy or Move command in the File menu.  You can copy and move items between directories and between drives.  The first step is to make the source and destination locations visible with File Manager.  In the sample display shown, we could copy a file from the AUTOMOBI directory into the BASIC directory since both are visible.
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Let's practice copying a file.  Copy the file HEADLIGH.TXT from the GEARSHIF directory to the BASIC directory.  To copy, hold down the CTRL key and drag the file from the old directory folder to the new one.  Locate the file named HEADLIGH.TXT on the screen and the destination directory, BASIC.  Hold down the CTRL key, then click and drag the file over to the left until it is on top of the BASIC directory folder.  Then let go of both the mouse button and the CTRL key.  When you have done this successfully, continue with the topic by clicking on an arrow.
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Delete
When you delete a directory, all files and subdirectories in the directory are deleted.  You can do this by clicking on the directory folder and pressing the DEL key on the keyboard.  You can also use the Delete command in the File menu.  Be very sure you want to delete a directory or file.  Windows will verify the operation before actually deleting.  
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This is an example of the Delete dialog box.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the Table of Contents, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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Format a Diskette
To format a diskette there is a selection on the File Manager Disk menu called Format Disk.  The Format Disk dialog asks you for the drive you want to use, the size of the disk you want to format, any options you want, and an optional disk label.  That concludes this section.  Select the Windows Guidebook icon to return to the menu, or the right arrow to continue with the next topic.
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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
For more information on Windows and its use refer to:
1.  Windows on-line help .
2.  Reference books are available at your local computer store, library, or bookstore.
That concludes the MS Windows Guidebook.  You can select another Guidebook, the game button, or exit.
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