Starting A Program From The Start Menu; Starting A Program From Windows Explorer - Toshiba M2 User Manual

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Learning the Basics
Starting a program

Starting a program from the Start menu

When you install a program, the operating system usually
puts an icon in the All Programs menu. To start a program
that has an icon in the All Programs menu, follow these steps,
which use the Windows
1 Click Start, then point to All Programs.
The Windows
Programs menu, which lists programs and program groups. If
your program is listed, go to
step
2 Point to the program group, in this example, Accessories.
The Accessories menu is displayed.
3 Click the program, in this example, Wordpad.
Wordpad opens.
To close the program, click the Close button in the
upper-right corner of the program's window.
Starting a program from Windows
If a program is not listed in the Programs menu, you can start
it from Windows
your computer's contents as a hierarchy or "tree." You can
easily see the content of each drive and folder on your
computer. To use this method, you should know the file name
and location of the program's executable file (this file ends
with .exe).
This example opens Wordpad using its file name,
wordpad.exe.
1 Click Start, then point to All Programs.
2 Click Accessories.
3 Click Windows Explorer.
XP operating system displays the All
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Explorer. Windows
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Wordpad program as an example:
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step 3, otherwise, continue with
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Explorer displays