The document provides an overview of computing concepts for engineering students, including Windows terms, the Windows 7 desktop, files, folders, and the Start menu. It defines key terms like files, folders, icons, windows, and the taskbar. It describes the Start menu and how to access programs, settings, and system folders from it. The Control Panel is explained as a way to customize computer settings and manage devices and user accounts. Basic tasks like creating/deleting files and folders, copying/pasting, and properties are also covered at a high level.

1. Computing for Engineering
Prepared by: Eng. Shireen Mansour
M.Sarhang Jamal
Petroleum Department
Chemical Department
Civil Department
Faculty of Engineering
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2.  Windows Terms
1. File
2. Folder
 Windows 7 Desktop
1. Taskbar.
 Right Click Menu
 Toolbars
2. Start Menu.
 Control Panel
3. Icons.
 Customize the Desktop
1. Personalize
2. Gadgets
3. Screen Resolution
Contents:
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3. Windows Terms
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 Click: means pressing the left mouse button then immediately release it.
Always used for selecting, actions, choosing, moving the window, drag
and drop, and etc.
 Double-Click: means pressing the left mouse button two times quickly
then immediately release it . Always used for opening the windows of
folders, files, programs, and etc.
 Right Click: means pressing the right mouse button then immediately
release it. Always used for displaying the right menu.
 Drag and Drop: This is when you press down with the left mouse
button and keep it down, then move the mouse to a new location and
release the left mouse button. You might Click on a file and Drag it to a
new folder.
 Copy: Cntr+c
 Cut: Cntr+x
 Paste: Cntr+v

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 When you open a program, file, or folder, appears on the screen a box
or frame called a Window.
File Name – File Type
Title bar
Scroll bar
Minimize window Maximize window Close window
Menu bar
Control buttons
Windows Terms (Cont.)

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 If you want to change the Window size to fill the screen press this
button or press double click on the title and in order to change
the size as before press this button (This button will be active
after pressing this button ).
 If you want to change the Window size; move the mouse pointer to
the edges or corner of the window and when the mouse pointer
changed to this button ( ), just press click and move it up to make the
size smaller than before or move it down to make it bigger than
before. Try it for right and left…
 If you want to close the window, just press this button then the
window will disappear from the screen.
Windows Terms (Cont.)

6. Icons
File
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 File: is a collection of information
that is stored on the computer under
single name.
 A file can be a text, a picture, a
program, and so on.
 Files typically have a three- letter
file name extension that helps
to indicate the type.
 A system file : is any file on your
computer that's essential for running
Windows. System files are usually
found in the Windows folder or the
Program Files folder. System files are
hidden by default.

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File (Cont.)
File Name
Extension
Picture File
types (Format)
.jpg and .jpegJPEG
.gifGIF
.bmpBitmap
.tif and .tiffTIFF
.png
Portable Network
Graphics
Extension
Application/
Software types
(Format)
.exeProgram
.scrScreen saver file
.mp3
Windows Media
Player (Sound)
.wmv
Windows Media
Audio/ Video
 More extension :

8. File (Cont.)
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 Create a new file:
1. Go to the location (such as a folder
or the desktop) where you want to
create a new file.
2. Right-click a blank area on the
desktop or in the folder window,
point to New, and then click file
type.
3. Type a name for the new file, and
then press Enter.
4. The new file will appear in the
location you specified.

9. Folder
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 Folder: is a container for your files.
you can store programs set up,
pictures, videos, music files to arrange
and organize your data.
 It is look like the real box folder, that
you use it in the office and etc. that
you put different type of files or
papers inside it to arrange and
organize your things (files, pictures)
to get it quickly when you need it.

10. Folder (Cont.)
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 Create a new folder:
1. Go to the location (such as a folder or
the desktop) where you want to
create a new folder.
2. Right-click a blank area on the
desktop or in the folder window,
point to New, and then click folder.
3. Type a name for the new folder, and
then press Enter.
4. The new folder will appear in the
location you specified.

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 How to copy and paste a file or a folder;
1. Open the location that contains the file/or folder you want to copy.
2. Right-click the file/or folder , and then click Copy.
3. Open the location where you want to store the copy.
4. Right-click an empty space within the location, and then click Paste.
The copy of the original file/or folder is now stored in the new location.
 How to delete a file or a folder;
 Right-click the file or folder that you want
to delete, and then click Delete.

12. Windows 7 Desktop
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Desktop: represents the main area of the screen or the background of your
screen that appears after log on to Windows. Just like the surface of the real
desktop, on the desktop you can conduct your works.
Desktop
Icons
TaskbarStart Button
- When you open
programs or folders,
these programs and
folders appear on the
desktop.
- You can also put things
on the desktop, such as
files, folders and
arrange them how you
want.
- The desktop includes:
Icons, Task Bar, and
Start Button.

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The desktop includes:
1. Taskbar: Taskbar (or Super bar) is a long horizontal bar at the bottom of the
screen. Unlike the desktop, which can be behind open windows disappear,
the taskbar is often visible all the time.
Taskbar composed of three main sections :
1- Start button; which opens the Start menu.
2- The middle section; shows the programs that run on your computer at the
moment, and allows switching between them.
3- Notification area; which includes an hour and icons (small pictures) that
indicate the status of some programs and some computer settings.
Start button The middle section Notification area
Taskbar

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When you minimize the open program, file, or folder, it will disappear
from the screen, but the icon of the program, file, or folder will remain
appear on the taskbar. And by pressing one click on the icons, it will
make the program, file, or folder appear again on the screen.
Program Icons Program Icons
Taskbar (Cont.)

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Aero Peek; a preview of the window when you move your mouse pointer
over the opened program icons on the taskbar. If you have multiple items
for the same software, it will view all of them, then you can choose the
program that you want to review it again on the screen.
Preview
Three documents of Word program icons
Taskbar (Cont.)

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 Right Click Menu (on the taskbar); By pressing right click on the
middle section of the taskbar the right click menu will appear.
Taskbar (Cont.)

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1. ‘’ Properties ‘’, you can change the
setting of the (Taskbar, Start
Menu, and Toolbars). The menu for
the Taskbar will be active.
2. ‘’ Lock the taskbar ‘’, the taskbar
will be locked.
3. ‘’ Show the Desktop’’ , all the
running windows will disappear
from the screen, and the desktop
icons and taskbar will appear
clearly. Then ‘’ Show open
windows ‘’ will be active when you
use right click menu of the
taskbar, by choosing it, the running
windows will be appear again on
the screen as before.
Taskbar (Cont.)
 By pressing right click on the middle section of the taskbar the right
click menu will appear. and by choosing;

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4. ‘’ Start Task Manager‘’, the
windows of the task manager
will appear.
 In the ‘Applications’ tab you can
see all running programs.
 If you want to stop/ end the
process of the programs, you
can just select the program and
then press on the button ’ End
Task’ to stop it and close it..
 Closing programs by this way
very important especially when
the programs not responding.
Taskbar (Cont.)
 By pressing right click on the middle section of the taskbar the right
click menu will appear. and by choosing;

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 By pressing right click on the middle section of the taskbar the right
click menu will appear. and by choosing;
Taskbar (Cont.)
5. ‘’ Show windows side by side ‘’, it will view the opened windows side by
side vertically.
6. ‘’ Show windows stacked‘’, it will view the opened windows horizontally.
7. ‘’ Cascade windows ‘’, it will view the opened windows one after one.
Side by side Windows Stacked Windows Cascade Windows

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Note; you should have at least one file, program, or folder that appeared
on the screen to make these (windows show) active on the right click
menu of the taskbar..
Taskbar (Cont.)
Not active

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Taskbar (Cont.)
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Taskbar (Cont.)
 Near the right-corner of the taskbar, you can see a System Clock.
And you can change the time and the date by clicking on it and
choosing ‘’ Change date and time settings ‘’.

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Taskbar (Cont.)
8. ‘’ Toolbars ‘’, contain some tools that make your work easier and
faster by using it.

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Toolbars (Cont.)
 Toolbars contain:
1. Address: you can type any site address to open it when you using the
internet. and you can even search for file or folder ...etc.
2. Links: no need for typing, you can use the sites that you have the link of it.

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Toolbars (Cont.)
3. Desktop: to make link
for the desktop items.
4. Language bar (EN): to
change the keyboard
languages between the
language that you
activated.

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Toolbars (Cont.)
5. New toolbar: to add new folder to open it quickly.
6. Tablet PC Input Panel: you can use keyboard or pen.

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- The desktop includes:
2. Start button (or Start Menu): the main gateway that help you to
access to programs, folders and computer settings.
 To open the Start Menu, press on the
start button, then the start menu will
appear.
 To open the Start Menu, from the
keyboard press on the windows logo
key.
Start button
Start Menu(Cont.)

28. Start Menu(Cont.)
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Programs
Control Panel
System folders
Help and Support
All Programs
Shut down
Search box
Start button

29. Start Menu(Cont.)
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 The Start Menu contain; left pane and right pane.
Left pane shows:
1. Search box; if you want to search any file, folder, and program just type
the name of it, then you will see list of the files, folders, programs,
pictures and etc. that has the name that you looking for (or contain same
letters or words). So you can select the one that you want and click on it
to open it.
2. All programs; Contain all the programs and applications that installed
with the operating system and that installed on the hard drive later.
 By pressing Click on the All programs you can see list of all the installed
programs (If you added to start menu).
 you can open the program or application that you want by selecting it,
then click on it to open.

30. Start Menu(Cont.)
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3. Programs: contain list of the commonly access programs on the
computer. That make you open quickly the applications that you want.
 The Start Menu contain; left pane and right pane.
Left pane shows:
Right pane shows:
1. Shut down button; turn off your computer
by pressing on it.
 If you Click the arrow next to the Shut down
button a menu will display with extra options
like: Switch user, Log off, Lock, Restart, Sleep,
and Hibernate.

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 The Start Menu contain; left pane and right pane.
Right pane shows:
2. Help and Support: Supporting
service that help you to get
information about hardware and
software in your computer.
 Type the topic that you want to
know about it in the search help
(example. Type ‘Mouse’) , then
press on the key ‘enter’ on the
keyboard, then you can read the
information, settings, and so on.
3. Devices and Printers: view
information about the printer and
other devices installed on your
computer.

32. Start Menu(Cont.)
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Right pane shows:
4. Control Panel: adjust the computer`s settings and customize the
appearance and functionality of your computer, manage user
accounts, and install or uninstall programs etc. controlling every-
thing that related to the hardware and software of your computer.

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1. Programs: open it then from Programs and Features choose
uninstall a program, in the displayed window you can see all the
programs that you have installed them on your computer. By pressing
click on the program that you want to remove it from your computer,
then press uninstall, to continue with removing the program click
next till it finished.
Control panel items: control panel contain important items refers to
the applications and devices setting in the computer, some of these
items will be illustrate, like;

34. Control Panel (Cont.)
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2. User Accounts and Family Safety: changing the user account
settings and passwords and set up parental control.
 By choosing this item (when the control panel viewed by
Category),new window will appear, as illustrated in the picture below,
then you can choose what ever you want to do:
 User Account: you can make changes to your user account.
like: add, change, or remove the password.
change your account name, type, picture, and setting.
 Add or remove user account: you can add new users or remove
them from your computer.
 Change your windows password: same window of ‘ User
Account ’ will appear to change your account password.

35. Control Panel (Cont.)
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3. Clock, Language, and Region: you can change the time, date,
keyboard language, display language, currency, time zone and etc.
 By choosing the ‘Clock, Language, and Region’ from the control panel, after
click on it, new window will appear contains:
 Date and Time: you can change the time, date and etc.
 Region and Language: you can change keyboard and display languages
and etc. as illustrated in picture below.

36. Start Menu(Cont.)
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5. System Folders: look like a library folder that stored the data.
Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, and Games.
Personal folder: which is named for the account that you are currently
logged on to Windows. For example, if the current user is named ‘’Future’’, the
folder will be named ‘’Future’’ too. This folder contains user-specific files,
including the My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos folders
etc.

37. Start Menu(Cont.)
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6. Computer: you can access disk drives and other hardware
connected to your computer. Like; DVD ROM Drive, Pen drive,
external hard drive, scanner and etc. You can open the drive that you
want by pressing double-click on it.
Hard disk drives
Pen driveBD- ROM drive

38. Start Menu(Cont.)
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 Pressing right click on the
drive that you choose it and
from the displayed menu,
choose ‘properties’, then new
window will appear called
‘Local Disk properties’,
contain some tabulations used
to change the setting for the
selected drive.
 You can know about the type
and file system.
 You can see how many GB has
been used from the disk drive
and how many free.
 You can clean your disk by
clicking on the ‘Disk Cleanup’.

39. Start Menu(Cont.)
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 Selecting ‘’ Computer ‘’, and press right click, new menu will appear,
choose ‘’ Properties ‘’ from the menu. New window will be display, is
viewed the basic information about your computer. Like;
 Windows edition.
 System: Processor, RAM, and System type.
 Computer name, workgroup setting.
 Windows Activation.
 Left pane: you can choose any link related to your setting that you
want to change it and so on.

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1. Navigation pane
2. Back and Forward
buttons
3. Menu bar
4. Address bar
5. Library bar
6. Toolbar
7. File List
8. The search box
9. Details pane
2
1
3 4 5 6 7 8
9
Start Menu(Cont.)
 Windows Explorer: By pressing right click on the start button,
and choose ‘Open Windows Explorer’, new window will appear that
you can choose whatever you want to open from the ‘’Navigation
pane’’.

42. Windows 7 Desktop (Cont.)
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- The desktop includes:
3. Icons: small images representing the files, folders and programs, and
other items. When you start Windows for the first time, you will see a
symbol and at least one on the desktop like; Recycle Bin.
 In order to run or open the items just double-clicking a desktop
icons that you want to open it.
 Software icons are unique so that you can quickly find the software
application.
Internet
Explorer
Folder Windows
media
player
Mozilla
Firefox
Photoshop
Power point
Word Excel WinRAR
Windows
Photo viewer
PDF

43. Icons (Cont.)
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 To change the icons view, press right-click on the desktop, then choose
view, then you can choose the way of view that you want it to display the
icons on the desktop. Like; large, small, medium, Auto and etc.

44. Icons (Cont.)
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 To rearrange the icons, press right-click on the desktop, then choose
Sort by, then you can choose the type of rearrange that you want it to
arrange the icons on the desktop. Like; name, size, item type and date
modified.
Sort by Name Sort by Size

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 To customize and personalize the desktop, press right click on the
desktop, and choose Personalize from the menu to change your
desktop themes, icons, colors, background, screensaver, and etc.
Screen SaverWindow Color
Desktop Background
Themes

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 Gadgets: which are mini-programs (or Smart Tools) that placed on the
right hand side of the screen or you can put gadgets anywhere on the
desktop. Like; Calendar, Clock, Picture Puzzle ….etc.
• You can add them to
desktop by pressing right
click on the mouse
bottom on the desktop,
then choose Gadgets and
press double-click or
drag a gadget to place it on
your desktop.
• To remove a gadget from
your desktop, right-click
the gadget and click Close
gadget.
Customize the Desktop(Cont.)

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 Screen Resolution: Signifies the number of dots (pixels) on the entire
screen. which settings and changing the appearance for displaying
screen, by making the text and other items larger or smaller.
Customize the Desktop(Cont.)
 By pressing right click on
the desktop, and choosing
Screen Resolution,
new window will be
open, then you can
change your display
setting from it.