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Your
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Mouse
Mouse = the hand held apparatus at beck and call for doing the clicking on all links on your computer screen and available in many different styles which I have used most of and have also trashed most of. I now use and love an infrared, right and left click mouse with a central wheel. It has no Trackball to clean and the vertical centered wheel is a Godsend for scrolling internet pages. It works also in some inside computer programs. Just set your cursor on the page, click, push the center wheel down to lock into place and pull the mouse along up, down or sideways. Very nice. Cursor = the little visual that moves across your screen in different shapes i.e. arrows or verticals that look like a vertical bar bell. Mouse/Cursors: Learn to use the right and left click of your mouse. Your mouse and it's various cursors are the silent mouthpiece to what is going on in your computer as you work. The cursor takes on many shapes i.e. hourglass, arrows and vertical and horizontal double arrows and vertical lines that look like a small barbell. Each of those shapes is telling you the work that is happening in your computer at the time or what the computer is ready to do for you. When your cursor takes on the form of a vertical line on the page, it is telling you that it is working with text either to type it using your keyboard or to copy the text to paste that same text from one area of one page into another page or another program. A double arrow, vertical or horizontal is a grabber/sizer. It appears only at the very edge of a window of any program you may have up, right side, left side, top and bottom. When you see a double arrow, left click and drag towards the center and it will size the page allowing you a different view or a view of more than one page you may have up. Notice scroll bar changes and scroll to view each page on the resized windows. I have on occasion had 4 chats open at one time and I size the windows of each so I can fit the 4 on my screen. I can view that way, any new text coming to me on all four chats. Click on the window you want to send a return chat message. Your mouse activates all windows. When you click on a window, your computer knows that is the window you want to work with. Your active window is always the window you have clicked on the most recently. Be sure to click on the window you want to chat on as your typewritten message will go into the chat window that is active. If you type the wrong message into a chat window without looking, you may be sorry you sent the message. Pay attention to what you are doing. Adjust or change: your mouse cursors/pointers go into your (start menu\settings\control panel\mouse or, it may be printers and other hardware\mouse) depending on your operating system. When you are there, click on mouse and bring up the window and check thru the tabs at the top of it. You will find some things to change mouse speed and the pointers themselves that you use on a daily basis. Right Click: You will be amazed at what you can discover and learn from a right click. Check it out on different spots on your computer screen. Try it on the scrollbar, on backgrounds on pages, on the blank areas or your page headers, anywhere. You won't discover its benefits until you have tried it. Themes: Themes are an accessory that come packaged with desktop wallpaper, sounds, icons, cursors/pointers and color changes for an overall change in the look of your computer). People enjoy making them for your use and you can find them free on the internet. I like themes but, I have had problems with the mouse/pointer changes they do when I installed a theme to use. Themes come with really cute icons and animated cursors but they gave my computer minor operational problems. I have not used any themes in my new computer. As my Dell runs a lot faster than my old computer, it might not have the problems but, I kind of lost interest in themes though I may give it another try sometime. You might love themes, do some searching and check them out. Search for Desktop Themes. They are fun and decorative to use as well as do. You can make your own themes with software available on the net and in stores. Making changes in your computer settings is always at your own risk but I have never had any problems making a change back from a theme to the classic windows look. My first suggestion would be to learn how to do desktop wallpaper changes. That is less involved and rewarding in itself. Themes come packaged in zip files or executables that open the packages and install the themes into special folders. Sometimes I download a theme just for the wallpaper. I open the theme, take the .jpg file and put it into my wallpaper folders and then trash or delete the rest. It may turn out you love themes and to make them yourself is a fun and creative thing you can do with your own photography. They actually would make very nice gifts to family members, who also compute, using personalized photos. Find Themes already in your computer, go to your desktop and right click on it. On the pop up window, click on properties bringing up another window. Click on the themes tab and scroll thru to look at the listing and make changes to try some of your themes by clicking on a title. You will see exciting and fun color changes well worth your time and trouble to discover. The themes coming with your windows package will be as safe to use as any although I had a favorite with animated/crawling caterpillars that came in Windows 98 and it froze my computer up every time I used it. You just have to try them and see what they will do for you.
DOWNLOADING A THEME?
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