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Windows XP Just the Steps For Dummies
Checking Out Tutorials
Adapted From: Windows XP Just the Steps For Dummies

Confused by something in Windows? Ever wish you could watch a demonstration or follow a wizard to solve your problem step by step? Wait, you can!

  1. Choose Start, Help, Help and Support Center. From here, you can locate tutorials here in a couple ways:

Enter the word tutorial in the Search text box and click the arrow button. Links to the first 15 tutorials appear. (Fifteen is the default number of search results.) Click a link to run a tutorial.

When you run a search, the Suggested Topics section of the results typically divides into two sections: Pick a Task; and Overviews, Articles and Tutorials. Any item in the second area that begins with the word Practice is a tutorial.

  1. Click a tutorial link to run it. It runs, opening a window that plays images along with an audio narration and a toolbar. Do one of the following:

When you're instructed to by the narration, perform an action, such as clicking a link in the tutorial window.

Use the tutorial toolbar to navigate through the tutorial. For example, use the Previous Topic, Jump Back, Jump Ahead, or Next Topic buttons to move through the tutorial content, and use the Pause and Stop buttons to take a break from the tutorial or stop it from running.

Use the tutorial toolbar to get more help with the More Information, Glossary, Tip, and Help buttons.

Close a tutorial by clicking the Close button in the tutorial window.

Tutorials are played by using the Macromedia Flash Player. To modify the way the player works, when a tutorial first begins, right click the tutorial screen and choose Settings. These settings control privacy, microphone recording volume, camera settings, and how much storage space is used on your hard drive to play the tutorials. To adjust playback volume, click the volume control on the Windows taskbar and move the sliders up and down to make the sound louder or softer.


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