This document provides an overview of the accessory programs that come pre-installed with Windows 7. It describes programs for text editing (Notepad, WordPad), graphics and painting (Paint), audio recording (Sound Recorder), launching other programs (Run Command), capturing screenshots (Snipping Tool), basic calculations (Calculator), notes (Sticky Notes), magnification (Magnifier), typing on a virtual keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard), and writing math equations (Math Input Panel). These programs cover a range of basic functions for productivity, media, and accessibility.

1. U S I N G T H E C O M P U T E R W I T H W I N D O W S
ACCESSORIES

2. Introduction
 Windows 7 comes with some additional programs
that can be used in our daily life. They can be used
for text editing, painting, playing music and video
files, recording sounds, etc. These programs are
sufficient for elementary and midlevel applications.
You may need to buy professional programs for
advanced applications, such as Microsoft Word for
text editing or Corel Draw for drawing.
 You can find the programs that come with Windows
7 in the Accessories folder.
 Use these steps: Start > All Programs > Accessories

3. Notepad

4. Notepad
 Notepad is a basic ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange) text editor that you can use to
create simple documents. ASCII text editors display only
ASCII characters and don’t store any information like font
size, font color, text indentation, or margins. The most
common use for Notepad is to view or edit text (.txt) files, but
many users find Notepad a simple tool for creating web pages.
 Because Notepad supports only very basic formatting, you
cannot accidentally save special formatting in documents that
need to remain pure text. This is especially useful when
creating HTML documents for a webpage because special
characters or other formatting may not appear in your
published webpage or may even cause errors.

5. WordPad

6. WordPad
 WordPad is a text-editing program you can use to
create and edit documents. Unlike Notepad,
WordPad documents can include rich formatting and
graphics, and you can link to or embed objects, such
as pictures or other documents.
 You can save your WordPad file as a Rich Text
Format (RTF), Office Open XML Document
(DOCX), Open Document Text (ODT), Text
Document (TXT), Text Document-MS-DOS Format
(TXT), or Unicode Text Document (TXT).

7. Paint

8. Paint
 Paint is a drawing tool you can use to create simple
drawings. These drawings can be either black and
white or color; they can be saved as Monochrome,
16-Color, 256-Color, or 24-bit bitmap image (BMP),
JPEG, GIF, TIFF, or PNG. You can print your
drawing, use it for your desktop background, or
paste it.

9. Paint

10. Sound Recorder
You must have a sound card and microphone installed on your computer to use
the Sound Recorder program. You can record, mix, play, and edit sounds using
Sound Recorder. You can also link or insert sounds into another document.

11. Run Command
Using the Run command is a quick way to open programs, files, folders, websites
etc. You can access the Run command in the Accessories folder. Another way to
launch the Run command is using the <Start>+<R> key combination.

12. Run Command

13. Snipping Tool
 You can use the Snipping Tool to capture a screen
shot or snip any object on your screen. You can then
annotate, save, or share the image.

14. Calculator

15. Sticky Notes
 You can use Sticky Notes to write a to-do list, note a
phone number, or anything else that you’d use a pad
of paper for.

16. Magnifier
 The Magnifier enlarges different parts of the screen.
This is especially useful for viewing objects that are
difficult to see, but also for seeing the whole screen
more easily. You can also change the color scheme of
the magnification window for easier visibility.
 Full-screen mode
 Lens mode
 Docked mode

17. On-Screen Keyboard

18. Math Input Panel
 If you use your computer to solve math problems or
to create documents or presentations that have typed
mathematical expressions in them, the Math Input
Panel makes the process easier and more natural.
 The Math Input Panel uses the math recognizer built
into Windows 7 to recognize handwritten math
expressions. You can then insert the recognized math
into a word processing or computational program.

19. Math Input Panel

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21. Paint