In this chapter, we will look at standard Windows 7 programs that always receive little attention, although the programs are quite useful. Standard programs are placed in the program group All programs => Standard. Surely you have already worked with the previous Windows versions and used some programs. So in Windows 7 there is a lot standard programs improved, and you will be pleased to notice the changes that are “visible” in this version of Windows. Descriptions of standard programs are given in the table.
Notepad and WordPad. Text editors
Windows 7 has two text editors, but neither is suitable for editing complex documents. In other words, without office suite you can't get by. The Notepad text editor remains unchanged, but the WordPad word processor has been slightly modified. However, the changes mainly affected the graphical interface. Now WordPad looks like MS Office 2007, but in terms of functionality it is very far from MS Word. Although WordPad can format text and insert pictures (that’s why it’s called word processor, not a text editor), but still cannot work with tables.
Graphic editor Paint
But the graphic editor Paint not only gained new interface user (in the style of MS Office 2007), but has also become much more convenient to use. It has new tools (quite useful tool Cropping), and the behavior of the program itself has also changed: now graphic files are saved by default in the PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format. The PNG format provides lossless image compression: combined high quality images and small file size. Previously, the graphics editor used the BMP format - the quality was high, but the file size was the same. In Vista, for reasons I don't understand, Paint saved images in JPEG format by default - the file size was small, but the image quality was low. Now everything has fallen into place - high image quality and low file size. If you wish, you can still save the file in another format: BMP, JPEG, TIFF or GIF.
Calculator in Windows 7
Even the Calculator program in Windows 7 has been redesigned! Of course, they didn’t “screw on” an interface in the style of MS Office 2007. The new calculator has new mode. Before this mode there were two: Engineering and Normal, in new version Programmer and Statistics modes appeared. There will probably be users who will appreciate these modes.
Notes, scraps. Electronic sticky notes in Windows 7
Yellow sticky notes are still popular in offices. Users glue them everywhere, including on monitors, and then they have to clean the monitor from glue residue and dust.
Various developers offered their programs - electronic analogues of stickers. WITH the advent of Windows 7 electronic sticky notes appeared as part of the operating system - this is the Notes program.
Scissors in Windows 7
If you are going to write an article about Windows setup or other program, you will need a screenshot tool. The Scissors program can cut an arbitrary section of the desktop and save it as a graphic file. But if you need to take a screenshot (window snapshot) of a program, then it’s easier to use the key combination
To take a screenshot of your entire desktop, press the (without) key and then paste the image into Paint or any other graphics editor.
Remote computer access
Remote access is a godsend for the administrator. Once you set up remote access, you can manage the remote computer in the same way as a local one. If you have colleagues who are not very good at setting up their computer, you can connect to their computer and help them - you won't even have to go near their computer, which is very convenient.
- To allow a remote computer to connect to your computer, you need to follow these steps:
- Select Start => Computer;
- Click on the System Properties button;
- Click on the button (on the left) Setting up remote access;
- Enable the Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with network level authentication option;
- Click on the Select users button;
- Select users who can connect to your system;
- You can turn off the Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer option—in most cases, you don't need Remote Assistance.
Windows 7 Utilities
The program group Standard => Utilities contains utility programs that can be used to maintain the system. Descriptions of utility programs are given in the table.
| Program | Description |
| System Restore | Allows you to restore the system after a failure, for example, after incorrect installation of a driver or program. The recovery service is described in detail in the chapter Windows 7 Recovery System |
| Disk defragmentation | Why you need to defragment a disk and how to use a defragmentation program is described in the article Disk Defragmentation |
| Computer | Brings up an Explorer window. I don’t even know why this program was placed in the System group, the same window opens when you select the Start => Computer command |
| Resource Monitor | A useful information program that provides information about system resources. It will be discussed in detail in the article System Monitor |
| Internet Explorer(no add-ons) | Internet Browser Explorer will start without add-ons, which is useful if some add-ons are buggy |
| Transfer Tool Windows data | Used to transfer data from one computer to another |
| Windows Easy Transfer reports | Allows you to view Migration Tool reports |
| Personal Sign Editor | With this editor you can create and save your own symbols, which you can later use in your documents |
| Disk Cleanup | General disk cleaning: temporary files, temporary IE files are deleted from the disk, the Recycle Bin is emptied, etc. You can run the same program by clicking on the Disk Cleanup button in the disk properties window |
| Control Panel | Windows Control Panel is the control center of Windows |
| Job Scheduler | Allows you to run programs, display messages or send emails on a schedule. This program will be discussed in the article Task Scheduler |
| System Information | Information program, which allows you to get information about your laptop hardware |
| Symbol table | With this program you can view the available symbols and copy them to the clipboard. This program is convenient to use to enter special characters, for example,® |
How to start Task Manager in Windows 7
Sometimes you need to crash a process that doesn't respond to user input. To do this, press the keys
Although many years have passed since the advent of the tiled interface, some still cannot get used to it. It is intended for them Classic program Shell. She returns to modern versions operating system is the same start menu that was in Windows 7.
7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to take control of functionality and appearance taskbar. Customize the display of tooltips, window thumbnails, behavior for right, left, and middle clicks on buttons, and much more.
Standard file manager Windows has long been criticized for the lack of a two-pane interface, which greatly facilitates file operations. Clover partially solves this problem. After installing it, tabs appear in Explorer in which you can open several folders at once.
The built-in system tool for uninstalling programs does not always do its job perfectly. Very often it leaves behind various tails of what was removed. Therefore, we recommend that you use Revo Uninstaller, which thoroughly cleans everything extra files, directories and registry keys.
5. Ditto
All keyboard workers need to have an advanced clipboard manager in their arsenal. Ditto is one of the best. With its help, you can not only remember several selected fragments at once, but also synchronize the contents of the clipboard between different computers.
AquaSnap is a handy utility that makes it easier to manage program windows. After installing it, you have many options for placing them on the screen. And thanks to keyboard shortcuts, you can work with windows without using a mouse.
Windows has hundreds of different options that can be used to fine-tune almost any aspect of the behavior and appearance of the OS. However, not all of these settings are available to ordinary users. Many are hidden in the depths of the registry or system utilities. Ultimate Windows Tweaker provides convenient access to all hidden operating system options, standard browser and some built-in programs.
Good afternoon, dear friends. Many novice users do not know about standard programs and today I want to correct this by telling you about a list of the ten best standard windows programs 7.
I'll show you a list of all the application utilities that are installed along with the operating system, which you probably didn't know about.
List of standard Windows programs
To find them, you need to open the start menu > all programs and find the “standard” item at the very bottom of the list. It looks different on different OSs (operating systems).
But since our article today is about Windows 7, I’ll show you what it looks like on it:
Let me tell you about the most popular of them, I will not specifically write about connecting to a network reactor or synchronization center, since it is better for beginners not to touch them, but if you want to know about them, you can unsubscribe in the comments and I will write to you.
- Paint is a special, fairly functional utility for drawing and editing photographs; you can learn more about it in the article about;
- Wordpad and Notepad - used for printing, in essence they are both the same, the only difference is that wordpad is more functional;
- Execute is an analogue of searching in;
- Sticky notes are notes that you can add to your desktop so you don't forget about something;
- Sound recording - facilitates recording sound using a microphone, but before you start recording, you need to connect a microphone for it too;
- The calculator is a fairly functional calculator that is used for all kinds of calculations;
- Command line - special utility to give different commands to the computer. For example, here you can ;
- Remote desktop connection - needed to connect to a computer remotely using ;
- Explorer - This is a program for navigating between folders and files; you can open it in two ways: here and by clicking on the “my computer” shortcut.
I showed you a list of the ten best standard Windows programs and told you what each program does. I hope you liked this article and share it with your friends. I think we can finish this article, goodbye everyone and see you soon.
To view the list of standard programs you need to enter the menu "Start", select item "All programs", and find the group in it "Standard". If the operating system has just been installed on the computer, but no programs have been installed yet, then standard programs can help the user out for the first time, because they are always present in the system from the moment Windows is installed. Standard text editors.
Windows has two standard text editors: Notepad and WordPad. In the program "Notebook" simple text files are created. The text is typed in the workspace of the program, and then saved to any desired address on the hard drive with the command File->Save.
Figure 1.
Notepad files have the extension .txt. In addition to simple text files, Notepad can be used to view and edit configuration files various programs (.ini, .inf), and also to view the code of web pages ( .html). To open a file "Notepad" V context menu file you need to select “Open with”. If the submenu that opens contains an item "Notebook", then just specify it. If this item is not present, then you should indicate the item "Select program". Next, in the window that appears, you need to open the drop-down list "Other programs" and choose "Notebook".
Figure 2.
If Notepad is not in this list, then you need to click the button "Review". In order to select a program using a review, you need to know exactly where the file with the file is located on your hard drive. the desired program. All standard programs are located at the same address: C:\Windows. Program file "Notebook" called notepad.exe. After these steps required file will open in the workspace "Notepad".
Figure 3.
Despite the simplicity, "Notebook" has a number useful functions. For example, the text search function. To find the desired word or part of a word in a large array of text, you must select it from the menu "Edit" team "Find". In the window that opens, you need to enter the search word or part of a word and click the button "Find Next". "Notebook" will find in turn all cases of matches with the search pattern in the text and highlight them with a blue background. You can search in a case-sensitive manner (that is, distinguishing between large and small letters) and in a case-insensitive manner.
Figure 4.
The WordPad text editor has more options. It allows you to use different fonts and insert pictures. WordPad can work with the following types of files:
- .txt - a simple text document;
- .rtf – a universal text format for exchanging data between various text editors;
- .docx – MS Office document;
- .odt is a text document from Open Office or Libre Office (often used under Linux).
To change the file format you need to specify the command File->Save As and in the window that opens, select the desired file type in the combo box "File type".
Figure 5.
Graphic editor Paint
The graphic editor Paint allows you to easily edit existing graphic images and create new drawings. Paint has a modest set of tools that cannot be compared with the tool sets in such professional design programs as Phptoshop, InkScape, CorelDraw. However, it quite allows you to draw quite complex objects. Paint supports several different graphics extensions:
- .png – graphic format, supporting lossless compression;
- .jpeg is a graphic format that supports lossy compression. When we repeatedly save files in this format, we inevitably degrade their quality;
- .tiff – graphic format for storing images with high color depth;
- .gif is a graphic format that supports compression without loss of quality and a palette of no more than $256$ colors.
If you have a scanner connected to your computer, Paint can be used to obtain a scanned image.
Figure 6.
Other standard programs
In addition to the editors listed above, there are many more useful applications among the standard programs.
Figure 8.
- Connecting to a projector and a remote projector will allow you to display your computer screen on a wall screen for a large audience.
- Connecting to a remote desktop allows you to control a computer, which can be located any distance from the user, without leaving your seat. For example, you can control your computer at work from home. This is possible provided that remote computer access is open for connection and the computer is turned on.
Standard Windows 7 programs
Together with operating system With Windows 7, you get a set of applications that are useful for everyday work. Although their capabilities are weaker than specialized software packages, they will most likely be sufficient for most cases.
At your disposal there is a graphic editor Paint, a text editor WordPad, an editor for working with simple text files Notepad, Calculator, program for recording sound from a microphone and some others (see Fig. 2.54).
Rice. 2.54. Group of programs Standard All of them are located in the Standard folder. To get to it, you need to enter the Main
menu (click the Start button), click All Programs, and then find the folder named Standard among the folders that appear and click on it.
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Graphic editor Paint
The Paint graphic editor allows you to create simple color and black and white drawings, as well as perform some image processing operations. Compared to previous versions of Windows, which also included Paint, its appearance has changed a lot. In Fig. Figure 2.55 shows the view of the Paint graphic editor window.
Rice. 2.55. Paint window view
To launch it, you need to enter the Main Menu, find the Standard folder (see Fig. 2.54) and click on the Paint item in it.
There is a Paint icon at the top of the window
Next to it is a button to save the image to a file.
The moment you click on this button, the current state of the picture will be written to a file. If you finish drawing something else, and at this time the computer's power turns off, all changes after last entry will disappear into the file. For this reason, do not forget to periodically click on the save button, even if you have not yet completed the drawing. When you first click on this button, Paint does not yet know in which folder and with what name you should save your drawing. For this reason, a standard file saving window will open, shown in Fig. 2.56.
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Rice. 2.56. Standard window for saving a file Find the folder in which you want to save the file with the picture, enter the File name in the field
name for the file (instead of the default name Untitled), select the format in which the image will be stored in the File type drop-down list, then click the Save button.
When you subsequently save changes to the image by clicking the button
the standard file saving window will not appear, since Paint already knows which file to save the picture into.
Following the save button there are two buttons responsible for undoing and repeating actions -
What are we talking about? The fact is that in many programs several of your recent actions can be cancelled. For example, you drew a beautiful image, and then added a detail that looks completely unnecessary. What to do? Redraw everything again? For such cases, there is a cancel button.
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Click on it with the mouse, and the last change you made will disappear as if it never happened. But what to do if you suddenly decide that you got carried away and canceled in vain? latest changes? The redo button will help you
Click on it with the mouse and the undone changes will reappear.
Below the window title is the ribbon area. What is this? The ribbon is a strip made in the form of tabs with buttons and other control elements on them. At the top you can see tab shortcuts (Home, View), by clicking on which you can switch from one tab to another. The Home tab is initially visible. But you can click on the name of another tab, View, and you will see its elements. And then you can return to the Home tab again by clicking on the word Home.
At the bottom of the window there is a status bar. It displays various auxiliary information. To the right of the icon
shows the location of the mouse pointer in the picture. It is shown in dots, starting from the upper left corner of the image. The horizontal coordinate is shown first, and then the vertical coordinate. To the right of the icon
The total size of the image is displayed.
There is a scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window.
It is used to change the image scale. The current scale value itself is shown to the left of this scale. By default it is set to 100%. To change the scale, you can either drag the slider with the mouse
left (decrease) or right (increase), or click on the round buttons - (decrease) and + (increase). What does "drag and drop" mean? This means that you need to move the mouse pointer over the slider, press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the mouse in the desired direction. When you move the slider to the desired value, release the mouse button.
It must be noted that, By changing the scale, you do not change the size of the image.
nia. It only seems to approach you or move away from you. Usually they change the scale when they want to examine or edit some small detail.
We all beat around the bush, but how do we start drawing? The Pencil tool is enabled by default. You can draw with your mouse the same way you would draw on a piece of paper with a pencil. To draw a line, place your mouse pointer
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to the right place white sheet in the central part of the Paint window, press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, move the mouse pointer where you want the line to go.
Of course, you can choose the line color. To do this, there is a color palette on the right side of the Home tab. By left-clicking on the corresponding colored square, you can select the current line color. If the set of colors in the palette does not suit you, you can click on the Change colors button and in the dialog box that opens, add a color from a wider range to the palette.
In addition to color, we can also change the line thickness. To do this, click on the Size button. A list with example lines will open. Click on the desired sample.
You can set not only the width of the line, but also the way it is drawn. To do this, click on the Brushes button (on the word itself). A list of brush types will open (Fig. 2.57).
Rice. 2.57. Types of brushes The pictures show the principle of each brush, but it’s better to experiment
on one's own.
You can not only draw lines by hand, but also use ready-made shapes. To do this, click on the Shapes button. This will display a list of available shapes
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Rice. 2.58. List of available shapes Let's look at some shapes.
Line – draws a straight segment. To do this, place the mouse pointer at the place where the line should begin, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to the place where the line should end, then release the mouse button.
You can choose the line thickness as we discussed earlier.
Drawing a line while holding down the Shift key creates vertical, horizontal, or 45° angled lines.
Drawing right click the mouse colors the line with the background color.
Curve – designed for drawing curves with smooth bends. Drawing is done as follows:
A straight line is drawn.
An inflection point is selected on the straight line and “dragged” to the side. The straight line turns into a curve passing through the inflection point from the starting point to the ending point.
Another inflection point on the curve is selected and “dragged” to the side. The curve bends again.
Rectangle – draws a rectangle. To do this, place the mouse pointer in the place where the upper left corner of the rectangle should be, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to the place where the lower right corner of the rectangle should be, then release the mouse button. The rectangle is painted in accordance with the selected scheme:
outline only;
contour and background;
only background.
Drawing a shape while holding down the Shift key results in a square appearing.
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Polygon - used to draw a sequence of line segments in which the beginning of the next segment is at the end of the previous one, and the end of the last one falls at the beginning of the first. This sequence forms a polygon, which, upon completion of construction, is painted over as a rectangle.
Ellipse – draws an ellipse. To draw, imagine that the future ellipse will be inscribed in a rectangle. Next, proceed as described for the Rectangle tool.
Drawing a shape while holding down the Shift key results in a circle appearing.
Rounded Rectangle – Draws a rectangle with rounded corners. Additional shapes can be seen by clicking on the button
In addition to the tools we mentioned, there are others. For example, you can fill a limited area of a drawing with the selected color.
Fill – paints a closed area with the line color when working with the left mouse button and the background color when working with the right mouse button. If the area is not closed, then all areas up to the closed boundary will be painted. If you see unexpected coloring of another area, cancel the action using the button
and find the boundary break. Zooming in (the scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window) can help with this.
If you need to erase some of the lines, you can use the Eraser tool.
Eraser – erases objects in the path of the mouse pointer, filling the trace with the current background color. The width of the trace is determined by the selection in the Size drop-down list. When working with the right mouse button, the eraser will replace the background color with the color of only those points for which it coincides with the current line color.
In addition to lines and shapes, the image can be decorated with text. To do this, click on the button
After selecting this tool, click the mouse in the place on the sheet where you want to place the text. A rectangular fragment will appear, defining the area where the text will be placed.
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This will open the text attributes panel (Font), in which you can select the font, size and style (change the boldness, italic and underline).
Once you've set your text attributes, click inside your selection and type your text. As long as the text area selection frame exists, you can make any changes to the text: choose a different color, position, size, style and font.
Clicking outside the selection turns the text into part of the drawing.
In addition to choosing a color to draw from the palette, you can specify the desired color directly on the drawing. To do this, click on the button
and then move the mouse pointer to the element of the picture whose color you want to make the current color and left-click.
There are some useful things you can do to areas of the image. To do this, the fragment must first be selected. To select a rectangular fragment of the image, click on the button
In the menu that appears, click on the Select item, and in the submenu that opens, click Rectangular Area. Then position the mouse pointer where you want the top left corner of the selection to be, press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to where you want the bottom right corner of the selection to be, then release the mouse button. In this case, a dotted frame appears, in the corners of which and in the middle of each side there are squares that allow you to change the size of the selection in the same way as resizing a window (by dragging the squares).
The selected fragment can be dragged to another place in the picture. In this case, the previous place of the fragment is filled with the background color. If you drag while holding down the keyboard Ctrl key, then a copy of the fragment is created.
The selected fragment can be placed in the Clipboard using buttons, a list of which appears when you click on the Clipboard button (Fig. 2.59).
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Rice. 2.59. Buttons for working with the Clipboard Cut – moves the selected fragment of the picture to the Clipboard.
Copy – creates a copy of the selected fragment of the picture in the Clipboard. Paste – inserts a fragment located in the Clipboard into the picture. Fragment
appears in the drawing as if on top of it and must be moved to the right place. The fragment pasted from the Clipboard appears in the upper left corner of the picture and
remains selected, allowing you to drag it to the desired location in the drawing. Clicking outside the selection deselects it.
We mentioned the Clipboard. What is this? This is a “pocket” in Windows where you can temporarily put part of an image or text. This "pocket" is common to all applications. This way, you can put something in the Clipboard in one application and retrieve it in another. For example, you can put a fragment of an image that you drew in Paint on the Clipboard, and remove this fragment from the Clipboard when working with a word processor Microsoft Word(we’ll talk about it later) and place it as an illustration to the text.
So, we can select a fragment. What additional actions can we do with it? For example, you can rotate a fragment by a certain angle. To do this, click on the Image button. In the menu that appears, select Rotate. A submenu will open where you can choose exactly how to rotate the selected fragment.
For more accurate and convenient image creation, you can enable some additional elements Paint windows. To do this, go to the View tab. There are check boxes for Rulers and Grid Lines. When you enable the Rulers checkbox, horizontal and vertical rulers appear, along which you can precisely position the mouse pointer.
Turning on grid lines will help you draw fine designs. To do this, it is convenient to turn on the Grid lines checkbox and zoom in on the drawing using the scale in the lower right corner of the Paint window.
We've covered various tools for creating images. We also know how to save a drawn picture in a file. But how can you open a previously saved image?
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To open a file with a picture, click on the button
located to the left of the Home tab shortcut. This will open a menu. Select Open from this menu. A standard file opening window will appear, familiar to you from the section where we discussed setting background images for the Desktop. Find the folder where the file with your drawing is located, click on the file name, and then click on the Open button.
If you need to start the drawing over from scratch, click on the button
and in the menu that appears, select the Create command.
And that the next time you click on this button, the file saving window will no longer appear, but what if you needed to save the image with some changes in a file with a different name? To do this, click on the button
And In the menu that appears, select Save As. The standard save file window will appear again, where you can specify a different name for the image file.
The commands responsible for setting up image printing are collected in a submenu that appears when you click on the button
And selecting Print (Fig. 2.60).
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Rice. 2.60. Commands for printing an image When you select the Page Setup command, a dialog box appears where you can
adjust print settings such as the size of the paper used, its orientation, and the margins from the edges of the sheet to the drawing. When choosing portrait orientation The sheet is positioned vertically, and when selecting landscape, it is positioned horizontally.
The Centering group checkboxes allow you to automatically align the image to the center of the sheet.
When all parameters are set, click OK.
Before printing a drawing on a printer, you can see on the screen how it will look on a sheet of paper. To do this, click on the button
and select Print, and in the submenu that appears, the Preview command. Your drawing will be displayed in the main part of the window as it will then be printed. You can zoom in or out by clicking on the buttons
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When to exit mode preview, click the Close preview window button.
When you decide to print the image on the printer, click on the button
In the menu that appears, select Print, and in the submenu that opens, select Print. A window similar to the one shown in Fig. will open. 2.61.
Rice. 2.61. Print pattern window
IN In the Select a printer list, you need to click on the name of the printer on which you want to print your picture.
IN The Page Range group lets you choose which pages to print if your image is too large to fit on one sheet of paper. If you want to print not the entire image, but only part of it, you must first select a fragment and select Select in the print window.
To start the printing process, click on the Print button.
To finish working with graphic editor Paint, you need to click on the standard window close button
