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AMAZON multi-meters discounts AMAZON oscilloscope discounts Study Guide to Accompany Made Easy Windows 98 Table of Contents: Module Overview Assignment 1: Internet Explorer and the Active Desktop Introduction Objectives Reading Assignment Self-Test Questions Examination Answers to Assignment 1 Self-Test Questions Assignment 2: Email, Newsgroups, and Web Pages Introduction Objectives Reading Assignment Self-Test Questions Examination Answers to Assignment 2 Self-Test Questions Assignment 3: Web Servers, NetMeeting, and Mobile/Remote Computing Introduction Objectives Reading Assignment Self-Test Questions Examination Answers to Assignment 3 Self-Test Questions Assignment 4: Configuration and Management of Windows 98 Introduction Objectives Reading Assignment Self-Test Questions Examination Answers to Assignment 4 Self-Test Questions Assignment 5: Working with Windows 98 ------------------ Module Overview Welcome to the second part of your Windows 98 learning experience! In this module, you'll go beyond the basics and learn about Web browsing and communication, as well as Windows 98 configuration and management. Your training consists of a textbook, Windows 98 Made Easy: The Basics and Beyond, in conjunction with this study guide, Working with Windows 98. We'll cover Chapters 12-22 of your textbook in this module. This study guide is your key to navigate your way throughout this course. It consists of objectives, reading assignments, self-test questions, and instructions for a graded examination at the end of the first four assignments. Be sure to read the introduction and objectives presented in the study guide before you read the material in the textbook. We strongly suggest that you carefully follow each assignment as it's presented in this study guide. Each assignment provides basic information that you'll use as "stepping stones" to understand later concepts. Don't forget that you must take an examination after each of the first four assignments. You'll find instructions in each assignment for taking these exams. Before taking an examination, however, please review that assignment's Self-Test Questions. Although the questions don't cover all of the examination material, they do cover many of the assignment's objectives. Working through the Self-Test Questions will help you better understand the reading. Remember, you should feel comfortable with the assignment objectives and textbook reading before taking an assignment examination. There are five assignments in this module. Let's take a look at them: Assignment 1: Internet Explorer and the Active Desktop This assignment covers Chapters 12-13 in your text book. Here, you learn the ins and outs of surfing the Inter net using Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Web browser that's included with Windows 98. You learn how to search for information on the Web and manage the information that you view in Internet Explorer. Of special interest is a section on blocking unwanted Internet sites from your computer. You also learn all about the Active Desktop, subscriptions, and Web channels. These are all new communications capabilities with Windows 98, and we're certain that you'll be amazed and impressed as you learn about these features. Assignment 2: Email, Newsgroups, and Web Pages This assignment covers Chapters 14-16 in your text book. You'll take a look at using Windows 98's email pack age, Outlook Express, to communicate with other users. Newsgroups and discussion groups are also covered. Finally, you'll learn some basics of FrontPage Express, a software program that comes with Windows 98 and lets you create pages to place on the Internet. Assignment 3: Web Servers, NetMeeting, and Mobilel Remote Computing This assignment covers Chapters 17-19 in your text book. Here, you delve into some advanced features of Windows 98 - Personal Web Server, NetMeeting, and mobile and remote computing. Personal Web Server is a desktop Web Server that lets you actually publish Web pages on an intranet or the Internet. NetMeeting is a software program that lets you communicate with others over computer networks. With NetMeeting, you can set up videoconferences and share applications and information online. Finally, you'll take a look at how Windows 98 can help you hit the road and still remain connected to your home or office computer and networks. Assignment 4: Configuration and Management of Windows 98 This assignment covers Chapters 20-22 in your text book. Here, you examine the necessary steps for installing devices - such as printers, modems, or multimedia equipment - on your computer. You also learn about the Windows 98 tools and utilities - such as Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk Defragmenter - that maintain your system. This is a very important section because you learn how to back up files and prevent loss of information. And finally, you check out some tips for optimizing your system's performance and for troubleshooting. Assignment 5: Working with Windows 98 This assignment is a hands-on practical project that you must turn in to your instructor for grading. Be sure to follow the directions carefully for completing the project and sending it in for grading. ---------------------------- Assignment 1: Internet Explorer and the Active Desktop Introduction Welcome to the Information Superhighway! No matter if you're an experienced "Net Surfer" or if you've never been on the Internet before, this assignment shows you how Microsoft has made the Internet easy to access and manage with its Internet Explorer. If you're a newcomer to the Internet, we recommend reading Appendix B in the back of your textbook to get a better idea of what the Internet is all about. Here, you'll get an introduction to the Internet and how you can access it. While you may not have Internet access at this time, this section still provides you with the necessary information and know how for getting connected and maneuvering your way around the 'Net. When using the Internet, it's important to keep in mind that in terms of what's out there, "anything goes." That is, there are no rules or regulations, no standards, no quality control mechanisms, and no monitoring. What you basically need to know is that just because you find something on the Internet, it might not necessarily be correct information. You see, anybody - and that means you, too! - can publish a Web page on the Internet. As a matter of fact, you will learn how to create and publish a Web page in this course! What this comes down to is that if you wanted, you could publish a "History of America" Web page that says, for example, "Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1776 and named it America because that was his mother's maiden name." No one would stop you from making this very incorrect information available to everyone in the world with an Internet connection. So, just a word of warning: As you explore the Internet, it's okay to have fun and even get a little carried away with all the information available at your fingertips, but please take care to note where your information is coming from. Objectives: After completing this assignment, you should be able to: • Browse the Internet using Internet Explorer. • Use an Internet search engine. • Mark your favorite Web sites. • Use the Internet Explorer's multimedia, security, and add-in features. • Understand how Webcasting, subscriptions, channels, and WebTV work. • Manage the Active Desktop. Reading Assignment Read and study Chapters 12 and 13 in your textbook. When you've finished the reading, return here and answer the Self-Test Questions for this reading assignment. Self-Test Questions Please check your answers on page 7. 1 Name four ways to launch the Internet Explorer. 2 Explain how Windows 98 provides integrated access to both local files and the Internet. 3 What is the Links toolbar? 4 How can you make sure that the Web page you're viewing is the most up-to-date version? 5 What does the History list keep track of? 6 What is one problem with the RSACi rating system? 7 What kind of information would you put on the Active Desktop? 8 What is the difference between channel-defined sites and non-channel defined sites in Windows 98? 9 True or false. It's possible to subscribe to a site but just have Internet Explorer tell you (via email or via the Favorites menu) that the site has been updated. 10 How is it possible to browse the Web without being connected online? What do you think is an advantage and a disadvantage to this method? Examination The examination for Assignment 1 is packed separately in this module. Once you've completed the work for this assignment, locate Examination 7323 and complete it according to the instructions provided with it. Be sure to phone or send in your answers for grading as soon as you complete the exam and check your answers. This should help prevent any unnecessary shipping delays in your study materials. Once you've completed the examination and sent in your answers for grading, you can go on to the next assignment. You don't need to wait for the graded response to this examination. ----------------- Answers to Assignment 1 Self-Test Questions 1. Four ways to launch the Internet Explorer are: • Click on the Internet Explorer icon on the Desktop, Taskbar, or Quick Launch toolbar. • Open any folder window and type a Web address in the Address field. • Click on the Start menu and choose Find I On the Internet. • Click on the Start menu, select Favorites, and choose a Web page that you want to open. 2. Windows 98 provides integrated access to both local files and the Internet. For example, if you open My Computer and Drive C, you can browse the directories located there for information. When you type an Internet address in the Address window, you'll be taken directly to the Internet. When you click on the Back button, you'll be taken right back to your local file system. This is integrated access. 3. The Links toolbar is a toolbar that contains links to some Web sites, such as Microsoft's Best of the Web, Welcome to My Yahoo!, Channel Guide, and Internet Start. You can delete any links that you don't want on the Links toolbar, as well as add new ones that you want to access easily. 4. You can make sure that the Web page you're viewing is the most up-to-date version by clicking on the Refresh button, located on the toolbar. When you click this button, Internet Explorer reloads the page for you, ensuring that you've got the latest "edition." 5. The History list keeps track of all the places that you've visited on the Web. It organizes your "trips" every day, providing you with daily, weekly, and monthly lists of addresses you've visited on the Web. You can adjust the History list's settings for the number of days that addresses are maintained in the list. For example, as a default, the list keeps addresses that you've visited within the past twenty days. However, you can change the default to two days (if you have limited hard disk space, for example) or even as much as 999 days. 6. One problem with the RSACi rating system is that not all Web sites use it. Therefore, by default, Internet Explorer blocks any sites that don't use this rating system. Because of this, children may be blocked from suitable sites that don't happen to use the RSACi rating system. An alternative is to permit Internet Explorer to show sites without ratings, but this defeats the purpose of preventing children from gaining access to sites that may not be suitable. 7. The Active Desktop is the place to run active Web content. Some examples of information that you could put on the Active Desktop are news from Web sites such as CNN or MSNBC. You could also put information such as stock quotes, weather reports, and sports scores. Basically, you can put any programs that were created with ActiveX and Java. 8. Channel-defined sites are Web sites that support Windows 98 channel technology. Channel-defined sites have a CDF file (channel definition file) that Internet Explorer reads to find out what information at the site has been recently updated. This process is a quick one because Internet Explorer doesn't have to read through all the pages (called crawling) to find out what information has been updated, which is what it has to do on non-channel defined sites. 9. True. It's possible to subscribe to a site but just have Internet Explorer tell you (via email or via the Favorites menu) that the site has been updated. To do this, go to the Internet site that you want to subscribe to. Choose the Add to Favorites on the Favorites menu and choose the option "Yes, but only tell me when this page is updated." You may want to select this option if you want to download the new information at your own convenience and not at a predetermined time. 10. You can browse the Web without being connected online if you take advantage of Windows 98's offline browsing feature. Basically, this feature lets you download the contents of a Web site at night or when you're not using your computer. Then, when you go to view the information, you access the site as if you were online. An advantage of this method is that you save time by downloading content when you're not at your computer. This way, you don't have to wait for it to load. A disadvantage is that the information you're viewing offline isn't the most up-to-date information, which is a main feature of the Internet. While this wouldn't be a big deal if you were looking up, for example, the role of the United States in World War II, it might matter a great deal if you were trying to catch up on the day's current events. As a comparison, it would be like reading yesterday's newspaper tomorrow. --------- Assignment 2: Email, Newsgroups, and Web Pages Introduction "Just email it to me" is an attitude that's sweeping the world. While we used to have to wait several days for a letter to arrive via the Postal Service, with a click of the mouse we can send and retrieve information within seconds over email (short for "electronic mail"). Email is an amazing technological advancement which may soon rival the telephone for ease of use and popularity. However, many people still aren't comfortable with the email process - whether it's writing a basic message, sending an attachment, retrieving mail, or filing messages. This assignment will show you the basics and beyond of email messages. You'll also learn about newsgroups in this assignment. We think that you're going to really enjoy this section! Newsgroups are public discussion groups via email about pretty much anything. You can join a newsgroup that discusses Seinfeld, the Gulf War, Shintoism, or even child care, just to name few topics. Be forewarned, however: Newsgroups can be very addictive! Before you know it, you can easily spend three or four hours reading and replying to messages. This is natural in the beginning, as you're learning and discovering the power of communication in newsgroups. But be careful: Remember that life does go on outside of the newsgroups! (We're telling you this information from personal experience!) Try not to spend too much time wrapped up in a newsgroup. Finally, this assignment will show you how to publish Web pages with FrontPage Express. Take a minute to think about what this means: You will be able to put something of yours on the Internet for the whole world to see! Maybe you've always wanted to write a book but never had the chance to get it published. Well, if you want, you can put your book online for anyone to read. This assignment won't show you how to write your book, but it will show you how to use FrontPage Express, which is included with Windows 98. FrontPage Express is basically a Web page-layout program. It uses HTML (hypertext markup language) - a language used to place information on Web pages. Objectives After completing this assignment, you should be able to: • Format, send, and receive email messages with attachments using Outlook Express. • Access Web pages with Outlook Express. • Organize your email in folders and make your email messages secure. • Access, subscribe to, participate in, and respond to newsgroups using Outlook Express. • Manage newsgroup messages and change newsgroup properties. • Understand the Web publishing process. • Use FrontPage Express to publish and edit your Web pages. Reading Assignment Read and study Chapters 14-16 in your textbook. When you've finished the reading, return here and answer the Self-Test Questions for this reading assignment. Self-Test Questions Please check your answers on page 13. 1 Where are newly received messages located in Outlook Express? 2 If you receive a message that has a paperclip icon next to it, what does it mean? 3 What does the Reply to All feature do? 4 Explain how you can format Outlook Express email messages in HTML, and why you might want to do this. 5 How can you create a signature in Outlook Express? 6 How would you go about getting a digital ID? 7 Why is it important to follow a newsgroup's etiquette conventions? 8 How can you ask Outlook Express to not show news group messages that contain the words "sell" or "sale," for example? 9 Explain what FrontPage Express is and what you'd use it for. 10 How do you create a hyperlink in FrontPage Express? Examination The examination for Assignment 2 is packed separately in this module. Once you've completed the work for this assignment, locate Examination 7324 and complete it according to the instructions provided with it. Be sure to phone or send in your answers for grading as soon as you complete the exam and check your answers. This should help prevent any unnecessary shipping delays in your study materials. Once you've completed the examination and sent in your answers for grading, you can go on to the next assignment. You don't need to wait for the graded response to this examination. ----------------------------- Answers to Assignment 2 Self-Test Questions 1 Newly received messages in Outlook Express are located in the Inbox. However, keep in mind that you'll only receive new messages if you're connected to the appropriate mail server. 2 If you receive a message that has a paperclip icon next to it, it means that the email message contains an attachment. An attachment is a file that was delivered along with the email message. 3 When you select the Reply to All feature when responding to an email message, you're replying to every single person who received that email message, not just the email message's author. For example, let's say that you, Sarah Smith, and Jake Smith received an email message from John Smith. If you select Reply to All, you're replying to Sarah, Jake, and John. However, if you only want to reply to John, you'd want to select the Reply to Author button. 4 You can create email messages with HTML content in Outlook Express by choosing Options on the Tools menu, clicking the Send tab, and then enabling the HTML in the Mail sending format and News sending format fields. You might want to do this so that readers of your messages can view the formatting in your messages. 5 You can create a signature in Outlook Express via the Stationery dialog box. Click on the Signature button to open the Signature dialog box. You can create the text of your signature here, or you can designate a signature file. This dialog box is also the place to create a business card, which is an attachment that contains personal information about you. 6 To get a digital ID, open the Tools menu and select Options. Next, select the Security tab. You can click on the More Information button to learn more about digital IDs. Or, you can select the Get Digital ID button and it will connect you to Microsoft's digital information site. 7 It's important to follow a newsgroup's etiquette conventions because if you don't, you're likely to get flamed. That is, newsgroup users will send you lots of mean email messages and tell you about the mistakes you've made in using the newsgroup. 8 You can ask Outlook Express to not show newsgroup messages that contain the words "sell" or "sale" by using the Newsgroup Filters feature, located in the Tools menu in Outlook Express. Click on the Add button to make a new filter. 9 FrontPage Express is a program for creating Web pages. It basically looks and works like a word processing or page-layout program. With FrontPage, you can format pages to post them on the Internet. FrontPage Express formats your pages in HTML code, but you don't even need to know this programming language to use FrontPage Express. It works just like a page-layout program! For example, if you want to bold a section of text, you simply highlight the text and press the Bold button on the Format toolbar - It's that easy. FrontPage Express even contains a New Page Wizard that walks you through the process of creating a typical home page. FrontPage Express also makes it easy to create hyperlinks to other pages or Web sites. 10 To create a hyperlink in FrontPage Express, type some text and highlight the part that you want to be the hyperlink. Next, select Hyperlink from the Insert menu. You can select where you want your hyperlink to go: On an existing open page, a page on the World Wide Web, or a new page that you haven't yet created. Next, choose the type of link that you want to create. (See Table 16-1 in your textbook for a description of the various links that are available.) Now you can type in the link's address in the URL field and then click OK. ------------------------- Assignment 3: Web Servers, NetMeeting, and Mobile/Remote Computing Introduction This assignment will show you the real power of Windows 98 with its Personal Web Server (PWS), NetMeeting, and remote computing options. While these may not be programs that you'll use every day, they are features that can make your life much easier! PWS is a software program, included with Windows 98, that basically puts Web pages out on the Internet for you. Your textbook calls PWS a "desktop Web server," which is an accurate description. With PWS, you can publish Web pages for the entire Internet community to see. The difference between FrontPage Express and PWS is that Front Page Express helps you create and format your Web pages, while PWS acts as a server that serves up the pages for the Internet. If you're interested in creating and publishing Web pages, you'll want to study the PWS section in your textbook in detail. NetMeeting is also included with Windows 98. It's a software program that lets you communicate with people over computer networks. With NetMeeting, one of the neat things that you can do is set up a videoconference. Keep in mind that to take advantage of the videoconferencing capabilities, you'll need a camera. Before you rush out and buy one, you should decide if you'll even need to use the videoconference feature. It is a nice program if you have a need for it. You might want to look beyond its obvious business advantages and see how you might use it in your personal life. Do you have family members living all over the country or even the world? NetMeeting could be a great communication tool for keeping in touch with them. This assignment provides you with the ins and outs of using NetMeeting. Finally, you discover the power of remote computing. This is a wonderful feature for people who are on the go but who need access to an office or home computer network. Just think: Wouldn't it be great if you could access the office computer from your laptop when you're actually three states away from the office? It can be done with Windows 98's remote computing. Objectives After completing this assignment, you should be able to: • Create and publish a Web page. • Make non-HTML documents available on your Web site. • Create a guest book and collect information from visitors. • Use NetMeeting to communicate with others. • Understand how NetMeeting can be used to share applications and documents with multiple users. • Understand the many mobile/remote features of Windows 98. Reading Assignment Read and study Chapters 17-19 in your textbook. When you've finished the reading, return here and answer the Self-Test Questions for this reading assignment. Self-Test Questions Please check your answers on page 18. 1 Where is PWS located? 2 What is a drop box? 3 If you create a home page with FrontPage Express, where should you save the files? 4 What equipment is necessary to make phone calls and to set up videoconferences with NetMeeting? 5 How can you transfer files to members of your NetMeeting session? 6 What is NetMeeting's Whiteboard? 7 What is docking? 8 What is deferred printing? 9 Explain the idea of the Briefcase. 10 What is Windows CE? Examination The examination for Assignment 3 is packed separately in this module. Once you've completed the work for this assignment, locate Examination 7325 and complete it according to the instructions provided with it. Be sure to phone or send in your answers for grading as soon as you complete the exam and check your answers. This should help prevent any unnecessary shipping delays in your study materials. Once you've completed the examination and sent in your answers for grading, you can go on to the next assignment. You don't need to wait for the graded response to this examination. ------------------------------- Answers to Assignment 3 Self-Test Questions 1. PWS is included with Windows 98, but it's not included with the normal installation. To use PWS, you must install it from the Windows 98 CD-ROM. Choose Run from the Start menu and type in the following line: d:\add-ons\pws\setup.exe After you've installed PWS, you can access it from the Publish icon on your Desktop. 2. A drop box is a private mail box where visitors to your Web site can leave messages for you. Visitors just need to click on the "Leave a Private Message" option that's set up on your home page. You can access your private messages through the Personal Web Manager. Click the Web site icon in the left pane and then click the Open Your Drop Box option. 3. If you create a home page within FrontPage Express, you should save the files in the www root folder. You should also put any graphic elements or any other of your home page inserts into this folder. 4. To make phone calls and set up videoconferences with NetMeeting, you would need a modem, sound card, microphone, and speakers. You should have a Pentium type computer with at least 32MB of RAM. To video conference, you'll also need a camera. 5. There are two ways to transfer files to members of your NetMeeting session. One way is simply clicking and dragging the file into the NetMeeting window, where it's automatically delivered to members of the session. Or, if you don't have the file that you want to transfer handy, you can use the File Transfer option on the Tools menu. 6. NetMeeting's Whiteboard is basically a whiteboard program. You've probably been to meetings where a whiteboard was used; it's basically a white board that's hung on a wall. You can write on the whiteboard with special markers that easily erase with a dry sponge. It's like a grown-up version of a blackboard. NetMeeting has expanded this idea for use over the Internet or an intranet. The program works like the Paint program. You can draw graphics or whatever you want; participants in the session can view your drawings and even add to them or create their own. 7. Docking is when you quickly attach or detach your lap top to and from a desktop connection. Hot-docking is when you can remove your laptop from a docking port without even having to turn it off. You can reconnect it at another docking station or use it as a stand-alone computer as soon as you detach it from the docking station. 8. Windows 98's deferred printing feature allows you to send print jobs to a printer even when you're away from that printer. Basically, the print jobs are saved to a disk and then when you reconnect to that printer, the print jobs go through. 9. The Briefcase is designed to help you keep track of files when you're working off a desktop computer and a laptop. What you do is this: When you're ready to travel with your laptop, copy the files you'll need from your desktop computer into the Briefcase -just like you'd place files inside an actual briefcase. Then, copy the files from your briefcase onto your laptop. You can edit the files on your laptop, and then copy them back into the briefcase again when you plan to return to your desktop computer. When you copy them from the Briefcase onto your desktop, the Briefcase automatically updates the files that have changed in their original location; you don't have to copy the files to their original location. 10. Windows CE is the travel version of Windows 98. It's an operating system that's used by many handheld PCs (H/PCs) and palm computers. The CE operating system runs versions of the same applications that are on Windows 98: Microsoft Excel, Word, Internet Explorer, and Outlook Express, for example. The sys tem is set up so that you can plug your H/PC into your Windows 98 desktop computer. You can share information back and forth between the two computers. ------------------------------ Assignment 4: Configuration and Management of Windows 98 Introduction This assignment touches on the configuration and management of your Windows 98 system. You will examine how to install and configure any devices (such as a printer, modem, or multimedia equipment) that you may want to add to your system. Don't think that just because you purchased a brand-new computer fully loaded with devices, you won't need to worry about add-ons. With the way technology is expanding these days, you will always need to know how to add and install devices. You'll find that this assignment is a little technical in nature, due to the many different hardware options and configurations required for installing devices. Don't feel threatened! Just try to get an overall understanding of the configuration-and-management process rather than a micro view of the various steps that you need to do for a specific task. As with any type of skill, it's difficult to understand something until you have to do it. By under standing the general way that devices are added on, when it's time for you to install and configure one, you'll know the basics about what to do, and then you can consult a manual or even your textbook for the detailed steps. This assignment also covers hard drive maintenance and troubleshooting for your Windows 98 system. While these topics may sound like something that you'd rather leave to the "techies," you should really think again! It's a smart idea to be aware of the behind-the-scenes workings and controls of your system, and with Windows 98, it's easy to understand and implement the techniques and options that you'll learn about in this assignment. Take some time to really get to know how you can optimize and 20 exercise preventive maintenance on your computer - It's well worth it! Objectives After completing this assignment, you should be able to: • Install and set up devices, such as printers, modems, and multimedia technologies. • Understand how you can change and configure device settings. • Use the Windows Maintenance Wizard, Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, Disk Defragmenter, and DriveSpace to perform system maintenance and enhancement tasks. • Scan your system for viruses and back up your system and data files. • Adjust and optimize your system's performance configurations. • Use Microsoft System Information Utility and System Monitor. Reading Assignment Read and study Chapters 20-22 in your textbook. When you've finished the reading, return here and answer the Self-Test Questions for this reading assignment. Self-Test Questions 1 Where is the main place for installing and configuring new devices for Windows 98? 2 If you're viewing your system properties in the Device Manager and see an exclamation point over a listed device, what does this mean? 3 When you view the currently installed printers in the Printers folder in the Control Panel, what do the "check," "hand," "disk," and "cable" placed near a printer icon signify? 4 Where can you set up and configure a modem? 5 What is the Windows Maintenance Wizard? 6 Where is the Windows 98 program for scanning for software viruses? 7 True or false. You can easily back up your hard drive right to another file or folder on the same hard drive. 8 Where do you check your Windows 98 system performance? 9 How can you get the latest Windows 98 updates? 10 True or false. Windows 98's System Monitor is a tool that directly lets you know when you have a problem with your operating system and computer. Examination: The examination for Assignment 4 is packed separately in this module. Once you've completed the work for this assignment, locate Examination 7326 and complete it according to the instructions provided with it. Be sure to phone or send in your answers for grading as soon as you complete the exam and check your answers. This should help prevent any unnecessary shipping delays in your study materials. Once you've completed the examination and sent in your answers for grading, you can go on to the next assignment. You don't need to wait for the graded response to this examination. ------------------------------ Answers to Assignment 4 Self-Test Questions 1. The main place for installing and configuring new devices for Windows 98 is the Control Panel. You can use the Add New Hardware utility to start up a wizard that will help you with the installation and configuration process. 2. If you're viewing your system properties in the Device Manager and see an exclamation point over a listed de vice, it means that there is a problem with that device. You can select the device and click Properties to see information about the device and resolve any problems. 3. When you view the currently installed printers in the Printers folder in the Control Panel, the "check" symbol placed near a printer icon means that the printer is the default printer. A "hand" symbol placed near a printer icon means that the printer is available for other network users to access. The "disk" symbol placed near a printer icon means that the printer prints to a file. Finally, the "cable" symbol placed near a printer icon means that the printer is a network printer that's attached to another computer. 4. You can set up and configure a modem with the Modems utility in the Control Panel. You can use the Install New Modem Wizard to easily add a modem. 5. The Windows Maintenance Wizard is a feature of Windows 98 that schedules disk housekeeping tasks for times when you're not going to be using your computer. It arranges for activities such as the Disk Defragmenter, which rearranges the way that pro grams are stored on your computer so that the pro grams will run faster. Another activity that it can schedule is the ScanDisk utility, which scans for and corrects hard drive errors. Disk Cleanup, which removes unnecessary files to free up disk space, is also scheduled by the Windows Maintenance Wizard. Keep in mind that you don't have to wait for the Windows Maintenance Wizard to schedule these tasks for you; you can run any of them at any time you choose. 6. Windows 98 doesn't contain a program for scanning for software viruses. The authors of your textbook recommend software programs from Symantec or McAfee. 7. False. You don't want to back up your hard drive right to another file or folder on the same hard drive Because if you lose your hard drive, your backup files will be lost, too! You want to back your files up to any of the following: • A floppy disk • A zip-type drive • Another hard drive on your system • Another computer on your network • A tape drive • A server on the Internet 8. You can check your Windows 98 system performance in the System utility. You can open the System utility either by right-clicking on the My Computer icon or by opening it up in the Control Panel. Once you open the System Properties dialog box, click on the Performance tab. Here, you'll find performance information such as Memory, System Resources, File System, and Virtual Memory. 9. You can get the latest Windows 98 updates by going to Microsoft's Web site. All you have to do is select Windows Update on the Start menu. This will take you to the Windows 98 update site. There, you can access the Update Wizard. 10. False. Windows 98's System Monitor doesn't directly let you know when you have a problem with your operating system and computer. Instead, you need to run the program over a period of time to see how your system performs. ---------------------- Assignment 5: Working with Windows 98 Congratulations! You've arrived at the last assignment in your Windows 98 course: the hands-on project. This project is packed separately in this module. Locate Project 7327 and complete it according to the instructions provided with it. Keep in mind that this project requires you to complete five exercises on your computer and mail us your work for grading. Be sure to set aside enough time to do the project carefully and completely. Don't rush through the work. Have fun with your project, and if you have trouble remembering how to perform a particular task, feel free to consult your textbook for more information. Good luck, and we wish you success as you work with Windows 98! -------------------------- NRI Schools--PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN Everyone knows that steady practice is needed to master a sport. But did you ever stop to consider the importance of steady application to a course of study? To be able to use what you know, you have to practice. As you read through these lessons, make a special note of sections that seem difficult. You must ask yourself if you understand each idea presented. Develop confidence in your knowledge of the basics before you attempt to go on. It has been said that children must learn to walk before they run. So, too, must students practice what they learn before they can apply their knowledge effectively. Review your lessons at every opportunity. Each section will require a knowledge of what has come before. How do beginners become experts? By recognizing and mastering each detail of the job set before them. --------------------------- |
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