This chapter was mostly review, but I still learned a couple new items. The Details Pane is something I never noticed before. I like it's accessibility and ease of use. Handy, that's for sure!
As far as displaying various windows, I prefer the showing windows Side by Side feature as opposed to Cascading and Stacking. It's more organized and neat, which I like.
I also appreciated the refresher on Switching Folders using the Address Bar, as this is a very useful tool which I often forget about.
The Activities were interesting but I did not see how the questions contained in Activity 2 really pertained to the chapter. They were a review of something similar in a Computer Ethics class I took previously. Nonetheless, it was still interesting.
The www.smarties.com site gave me some difficulties finding a logo to 'Save As' which matched the logo in the book.
Rhapsody (www.rhapsody.com) looks like an interesting service which I will do a bit more research on. My son has also been asking about it, so this seems like a good time to find out more.
Insights and opinions of my experience in CIS-118601 - Intro to Windows.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Chapter 2 - Working with the Windows 7 Desktop
Hello again! Most of this chapter was review with the exception of a couple items. Until now, I had never used WordPad. It's not a bad little program, but I wish it offered the spellcheck feature. Did I miss something? While I really don't need to rely on spell check, sometimes while fingers are flying across the keyboard, they tap a key that shouldn't get tapped and voila - error! It just makes proofreading that much more important.
I also had never thought of using the Address Bar to navigate through locations before. It's a convenient feature which I'll probably use more often.
Appendix B Activity 2 frustrated me a bit, as it took a while to open Windows Update to get the the information for Windows Defender because it all looked quite different on my screen. It all worked out though.
One question I do have though is regarding our creation of a new user from Chapter 1. Why did we do this? When I sit down to do homework, as most of my classes are online, it throws off my momentum having to switch users. I sometimes want to just log-on to CIS118 from my normal user, but then wonder if somehow, Mr. Rasmussen will know - so I don't.
Looking forward to Chapter 3!
Kimmy
I also had never thought of using the Address Bar to navigate through locations before. It's a convenient feature which I'll probably use more often.
Appendix B Activity 2 frustrated me a bit, as it took a while to open Windows Update to get the the information for Windows Defender because it all looked quite different on my screen. It all worked out though.
One question I do have though is regarding our creation of a new user from Chapter 1. Why did we do this? When I sit down to do homework, as most of my classes are online, it throws off my momentum having to switch users. I sometimes want to just log-on to CIS118 from my normal user, but then wonder if somehow, Mr. Rasmussen will know - so I don't.
Looking forward to Chapter 3!
Kimmy
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