• From the Start menu, (bottom left of the screen), follow on All Programs - Accessories - Calculator.
• Notice that an icon with the application's name has appeared in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
• This runs a program called Calculator and opens a window with the same name.
• Move among all the windows on your screen by clicking on their icons in the toolbar. Notice that you can also activate a window (bring it to the front of the screen) by clicking anywhere inside it. Click on the Calculator's icon again to activate this window.
• Move the window around on the screen by clicking on the top bar with the left mouse button, holding the button down and moving the mouse.
• Minimize this window by clicking on the _ button on the top right of the window.
• Restore the program's window by clicking on its icon in the toolbar (bottom of the screen).
• Notice that the window manipulation operations are also available from the buttom at the top-left corner of the window.
• Try a few basical operations in this program (add or multiply two numbers).
• From the View menu, choose the scientific option. Use some of the functions comming with this option.
• Close the application by clicking on the x button on the top - right corner of the window. Remember this button, because most windows can be closed the same way.

Desktop

• From the Start menu, choose Control Panels.
• Click on Appearence and Themes, then on Display under pick a Control Panel icon.
• Click on the Desktop page on top of the window.
• Explore the list of background images and themes. When you have chosen one, click on the Apply button at the bottom of the page.
• Try the Tile - Center - Stretch options under Position.
• At home, if you want to set your background to an existing image from the hard drive, you can do that by clicking on the Browse button. This calls a file dialog from which you can choose the image file.

• From the same control panel, click on the Screen Saver page.
• Explore the list of screen savers. You can see the effect of each of them by clicking on the Preview button.
• Enable the screen saver that you chose with the same button - Apply.

• From the same control panel, click on Appearance
• Explore the available schemes and enable the one you like with the same Apply button. Notice that you can customize the scheme if you feel comfortable enough doing it.
• When you are done with this control panel, click on the OK button to close it.
• Alternatively, you can click on the x button on the top - right corner of the window.
• You can also customize the appearance of you desktop using the control panel named Desktop Themes.