Windows Basics:
Windows 98 Tour

Step-by-Step: Win98 Tour

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What you will learn:

to use a multimedia tour review basic skills

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To work with Help in WinXP, skip to WinXP Help.
To work with Help in Windows Vista, skip to Windows Vista Help.

Start with:, Windows installation CD in the CD drive (or files copied to hard disk)

1. If you have the Win98 CD, open the Start menu and follow the directions in the Computer Essentials article that you read in the previous lesson.
   Start > Programs> Accessories > System Tools > Welcome to Windows 98

   

   Follow your teacher's directions if the files are installed somewhere else.
   

   The Welcome to Windows 98 window appears.
    

2. Click on Discover Windows 98
   

   The next window covers the whole screen and gives you four options of what to look at next.
    

3.  Click on Computer Essentials if you are fairly new to computers.
   

   

   A new window opens that displays topics that will let you practice a little with your hardware.

   If you are experienced already, you might find topics 2 or 3 more interesting, depending on which system you have worked with before. After reading the topics, you can skip to step 6 below.
    

4. Click on Meeting Your Computer to start the lesson.

   If you have a sound card and speakers, the lessons will talk to you. But you can just follow the text directions on the screen, too. You can read faster than the lessons talk.

   Clicking the left arrow or pressing the left arrow key on the keyboard will return you to the previous page in a lesson. Clicking the right arrow or pressing the right arrow key on the keyboard advances you to the next page in the lesson.
    

5. Click the   Contents button on the left when you have finished this set of topics.
    
6. Click on Windows 98 Overview to continue through its first 4 lessons: Starting a Program, Exploring Files and Folders, Finding Information, Managing Open Windows. You can skip lesson 5 and 6 for now. The lessons give the directions for performing a number of basic tasks, like starting a program and managing files and folders. You will see these skills again. The lessons often include a Show Me button which will run a short video demonstrating the action described. But this may close the whole lesson.
    
7. Click the Close button at the bottom right of the window with the big 1,2,3,4 when you are ready to stop using Discovering Windows 98.
    
8. Click on Yes in the confirmation dialog that appears. You are sent back to the Welcome to Windows 98 window.
    
9. Click on  the Close button at the upper right of the window.
   Do not click on the Continue button at this time. That would lead you through a wizard that schedules activities that help maintain your computer. If you are on a network or classroom computer, you do not have the authority to set such tasks.