-The following program, QuickTutors 95 should have been installed on your computer (if you don't have this program, then just follow the logic of this and the next lesson). You must first load that program into memory. To do this, do the following:

• Click on the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen
• Bring the mouse over the word "Programs"
• A second menu will appear. Bring the mouse over the directory named "Teach Me Windows 95"
• Another menu will appear. Keeping the mouse aligned with the word "Teach Me Windows 95", move the mouse to the right in a straight line so that it is placed over the word "Teach Me Windows 95"
• Click on the word "Teach Me Windows 95"
• The program, QuickTutors 95 will start

-You will use this program to discover beginner as well as experienced features of Windows 95.

-Double click on "Beginner Topics"

-run "Background/, Changing the Desktop"

Note: at the following screens, choose next instead of "Let Me" or "Save"

-choose QuickCard and return to the table of contents.

-run all of the beginner topics, as they all form a basic foundation of the Windows 95 environment. Notice: whenever you confront similar screens as the two pictures shown above, choose the "Next" button instead of the "Let Me" or "Save" options.

When you have completed the basic topics, double click on the "Experienced/Migrator Topics" and run the tutors under that list. Note: You don't have to run the following "Experience Topics" as they are generally not encountered or because I have already shown you these features in the first two lessons-

Don't have to run . . .

1. DOS Prompt, Accessing
2. File Manager, Migrating To Explorer
3. Files, Associating With A Program
4. Fonts, Adding and Removing
5. Hardware, Adding New
6. Hidden Files, Viewing
7. Program Manager, Migrating To Windows 95
8. Shortcuts To Files, Creating

When you have completed these topics, double click on "Maintaining Your Computer" and run the "Defrag, Using" and "Scandisk, Using" topics, and if you have a tape backup drive, you should run the backup topic.

Note: You should run the Scandisk and Defrag programs often (once every two weeks) to maintain your computer. This can be done by setting your system agent (Note: you might be required to have Microsoft Plus! Installed on your computer to run System Agent) which you can tell is active if you have the following icon on the bottom right of your screen: The system agent schedules to run programs, such as scandisk, defrag, backup programs, and the like at scheduled times on scheduled days, and if the computer is turned off when the scheduled time comes, then the next time you turn on your computer, you will receive a message alerting you to the fact that the scheduled program didn't run since the computer was off.

To set a program such as scandisk and defrag to run at a scheduled time and day follow the following steps, which shows how to schedule defrag, but can be applied for scandisk by specifying the program to be ran to be scandisk instead of defrag!

1. Double click on the system agent icon:

2. Go to the Program Menu and click on "Schedule A New Program"

3. Scroll to your desired file- scandisk or defrag

1. After double-clicking the file you want to schedule, you will face another screen. From here, click on the "When To Run" button

1. Choose the time and cycle for the program to run. If you choose either Weekly, Monthly or Daily, you can then choose which days, which is shown in step 6

1. Click on "Which Days. . . " to choose which days to run the program- from that menu check the days you want the program to run

1. Select "OK" from the "Which Days" menu. Choose the "Advanced" options. From that

menu choose the options you want.

1. When you are done with the advanced options, then click on "OK". Click on the "Settings" button to set the settings. For Defrag you will get the following menu:

Choose the options that you want Defrag to run at and then choose "OK"

For Scandisk you will get the following menu for the settings option:

Choose the options you want for scandisk. When you are done, Click on "OK"

1. Now click on "OK" from the "Schedule A New Program" menu to allow the scheduled program to take effect. You will now have a similar screen as the following, with the new scheduled program listed as well as any other scheduled programs you have previously scheduled:

If you wish to delete a previously scheduled program or the schedule you just created, then simply highlight that schedule and press delete. You will then be prompted if you really want to delete that schedule, and click on yes. The schedule is now deleted and has been removed from the list of scheduled programs. When you are done scheduling programs, close that window.

When you have completed the system agent, you can exit the QuickTutors program, and you have completed the QuickTutors series and are now hopefully more aware and knowledgeable on the interface and workings of Windows 95.

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