Microsoft Windows Tutorial - Lesson 6: Anatomy of a Window. Practical Learning: Introducing Window Frames. To open an application, on the Taskbar, click Start - >.
Control Panel(if you are using Windows 9. Start - > Settings. Control Panel)To open another application, on the Taskbar, click Start - > (All). Programs - > Accessories - > Calculator. A classic window, such as Control Panel, has a long bar on its very top. This is called the Title Bar.
Closing A Program Application Window. For demonstration purposes, double click on the My Computer icon on the Desktop to open it. Now close this window by clicking on. A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light and, if not closed or sealed, air and sound. Modern windows are usually. When you double-click on a file in. How to change or select which program starts when you double-click a. Click on the Programs category as shown by the.
Dear all, I am working with Windows 10, When I try to uninstall a program from Programs and Features by double clicking on it. The Programs and Features was closed.
Anatomy of a Window. (All) Programs -> Accessories -> Calculator; The Title Bar. A classic window. To open another window, on the desktop, double-click Recycle. When I click Start/Programs they are listed in one column so I cannot see them all at once. I have seen on other Window XP computers a double column. How.
It is made of three sections. On the left side of the title bar, there is an icon that identifies the application you are using. This icon is called the system icon. Every application that looks like Control. This is because the person who creates the application.
The system icon has its own menu called the. To access this menu, you can simply click the system icon. On the right side of the icon, the name of the window or application you are. This text on the title bar is called a caption.
It can be. anything that the application programmer wanted it to be. On the right. side of the caption, there is a long, empty, section. This section is. actually the one referred to as the title bar. Like the. system icon, the title bar has its own menu. Practical Learning: Using the Title Bar. To use the system menu of the application's icon, on the top left.
Calculator window, click the icon and notice that a menu. On the displayed menu, click Close. To use the other system menu, right- click the title bar of the. Control Panel window. On the displayed menu, click Maximize.
To restore the window, right- click its title bar and click Restore. On the right side of the title bar, three buttons allow you to manipulate the application as a window object. On all the windows we have used so far, the system. Depending on how. These buttons are: Button.
Name. Description. Close This button allows you to dismiss a window that is. To use it, simply click it. This makes its window. Depending on how the application works, you may be asked a. If you have closed a window. Minimize This button allows you to reduce the presence of a.
Taskbar. The window doesn't get closed but it. If you want to bring the window back, from the. Taskbar, click its name. After clicking this button. Maximize If a window equipped with this button is occupying. If there are other windows on the screen.
Taskbar. After clicking this button. After a window has been maximized, this button is replaced by another. Restore button. Restore This button is used to restore a window if the. If you click this button, the window gets the. Practical Learning: Using the System Buttons. To see the system buttons, on the right section of. Click the Minimize button .
Notice that the window has disappeared. To open another window, on the desktop, double- click Recycle Bin. Notice that its window comes on the. On the Taskbar, click Control Panel. Notice that it comes on top of. To maximize the Control Bar window, click its Maximize button To bring back the other window, on the Taskbar, click its name.
Recycle Bin. On the top right section of the screen, notice the different middle. To close the Recycle Bin window, click its System Close button To restore the Control Panel Window, right- click its name on the. Taskbar and click Restore. One of the most visible characteristics that identifies a window is its size. This allows the operating system to manage the available space on the screen and. Some windows have a fixed size.
This aspect is controlled by both the. If the window's size.
Once again, keep in. A. programmer can also decide how much a window can be resized by setting the. For example, you cannot enlarge the Free. Cell. application beyond the maximum width of 8 cards: The size of a window is characterized by two values: its width and its height: We mention these aspects of the dimensions only for. Unless you are a programmer, you will never be concerned with. Most windows that display the Minimize and the Maximize buttons can be resized.
To resize a window, first decide whether you. Then, position the mouse on. To widen. or shrink a window, position the mouse on either the left or the right borders. The last two techniques allow you to resize a. Fortunately, you. Position your mouse on. Notice that you can resize a resizable window using any of its four borders or.
Practical Learning: Resizing a Window. With the Control Panel window still displaying, make sure it is not. Position the mouse on the top border until you see a short vertical. Click and drag up Ѕ an inch (no need for precision)Position the mouse on the right border of the Control Panel window until a horizontal line.
Click and drag right Ѕ an inch (no need for precision)Position the mouse on the lower right corner until a short diagonal line with double arrows. Click and drag up and left (no need for precision)A Window's Position or Location. Whenever you launch an application or open a window, it uses a portion of the screen or the whole area.
When a window is maximized, it uses the whole display. On the other hand, a window that is occupying only. This allows seeing other programs that are "running" on the computer. The ability to move a window is partly controlled by the person who created the. Therefore, in some applications, you will not be able to move the window. When a window is not maximized, it is positioned at some coordinates with.
Based on this, such a window can be located by its. Here is an example. Unless you are a programmer, you will never be concerned with the Top and Left.
If at one time you don't like the area where a window is located, you can move. To move a window using the mouse, you can drag its title bar to the new location. To move a window using the keyboard, first right- click its title bar and click.
Move (or click its System icon and click Move). The mouse pointer changes into a. Then press the right, the up, the down, or the left arrow. When the window gets to the desired location, press Esc. Practical Learning: Moving a Window.
To move the Control Panel window, click and hold the mouse on the. Drag to the right section until the right border of the window. Then release the. Notice that the whole window has moved. Click the System icon of the window and click Move. To move the window left, press the left arrow key. While the Move key tool is still active, move the mouse up but don't.
To dismiss the key tool, click. To close the window, double- click its System icon. We saw how you can move a window. In some cases, you end up with one.
Of course the first remedy that comes in mind is to move one of the windows away from the other. This also. that sometimes you would have to enlarge and/or heighten the window. There. are situations that either you don't want to resize the window or you can't. When one window is positioned on top of another, they use a. This third axis, also considered the z- axis, is oriented so that. The operating system is in charge of.
Here is an example where Word. Pad is positioned on top of Free. Cell. which is on top of Netscape.