CNExT Windows^® Knowledge Requirements

Below is a listing of the Windows skills that you will need to possess in order to run CNExT for Windows.

Windows Explorer

• Where to find it
• Using the plus and minus signs in front of folders (directories)
• The correlation between Windows folders and DOS directories
• Changing the width of columns in Windows
• Explorer (not Internet Explorer)
• Dragging and dropping, cutting and pasting files into other directories
• Using the ‘Go To’ tool
• Dragging and dropping files into the Recycle Bin -- and how to restore them from the Recycle Bin

Windows Control Panel

• Where it is located
• What’s in there and what are their purposes

Start Button

• How to locate individual programs/applications
• How to re-start and shut down the computer
• What to do when an individual application freezes
• How to run other applications without exiting the current application
• How to use ‘Find’

Navigating in Windows

• How to start/close an application
• How to navigate to a particular pull-down menu, using the mouse
• Single clicking versus double clicking
• Right clicking
• Dialog boxes
• Toolbars
• Using ‘Alt+Tab’ to navigate between various applications you have open
• How to use scrollbars
• How to minimize/maximize a window
• How to use HELP function in Microsoft products
• How to use ‘Cut’, ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’

If you are not currently proficient in all the skills listed above, it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you attend a Windows training class in order to become proficient before you receive your CNExT software. CNET Technical Support Staff WILL NOT answer questions regarding any fundamental Windows operations.

 

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