Using a search engine is more than typing in the address, put a couple of keywords in the large text box, click Search, and selecting the first result. While this may work, it will not give you the best results most of the time. Learning the advanced search, Boolean operators, and how to discern good results in poor performance goes a long way toward allowing you to use a computer as a powerful research tool.
Word processing
Word processing is one of the oldest uses for a computer. And it continues to be extremely important, although in many ways its functions were put into other applications. (. Example, people can write several emails as documents, but the task is almost identical) It is difficult to pretend to be computer expert if the basic functions of word processing - such as spell checking, creation of table, and work with headers - are outside of your abilities.
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are the killer app that got a lot of people willing to pony up a lot of money for a PC in the early 1980s. Spreadsheets offer incredibly powerful analysis capabilities ... if you know how to use them to store more of the addresses holiday card list. (Ok, I use Excel for this.) Being able to use formulas, references, and macros can transform a "grid of numbers" in information in the hands of the right person.
Browser Basics
It is almost painful to watch some people "computer savvy" operate a Web browser. The most obvious blunder goes to a search engine and type in the website address, they want to go. But people are not aware of many other things they do that make the Internet more difficult than it should be. Mastering techniques such as opening links in new windows, use bookmarks, URL edition to perform navigation, clear the browser cache, and understanding of the common error messages will give you access to a world instead of unlimited information to keep you stuck with only what the Web site designers are obvious.
Basic Hardware Terminology
It is difficult to get someone to help you with a problem when you tell them that your "hard disk" is disconnected, when you really mean "the computer." There are a number of common misunderstandings material there, and while some are understandable (eg confuse a card with a modem - the cables are similar and serve the same purpose, networking), knowing terminology of basic equipment is a must-have skill to be an informed user.
Common Keyboard Commands
If you do not know how to copy / paste without a mouse, you are not computer literate. Sorry! Each operating system has universal keyboard commands, and knowing them will not add thirty minutes back in the day, there will be a lot of "friction" of a computer. Learning these commands is more a matter of routine than anything else, a short tutorial is once a day for a week will probably be enough to get you in the habit, and it will make you a happy user.
Virus/malware scanning
Much of the conventional computer maintenance is automated or unnecessary at this stage, but it is still important to understand how to check a system bugs, spyware and other malicious applications. While analysis tools come with monitors in real time, something can still drag on the system before the scanner has the right filter for it. It is therefore essential to know how to trigger a virus / malware scan manual, as well as how to use other systems, the accompanying signs of infection, and other similar tasks.
Simple Networking Diagnosis
Network problems create the most common problem with most computers. Even if you do not need to be able to program a Cisco router, you must know how to:
Determine your IP address
Verify physical network connectivity
Verify that you have a logical network connection
Find out what network traffic path takes to get to its destination
Translate DNS names to IP addresses
Security/privacy
It's a dangerous world out there! You absolutely must know how to protect yourself against attackers on the Internet and keep your personal information private. All know to check a link before you click on it to verify that encryption is used to transmit sensitive data research sites before giving them your personal data are all critical skills for the modern computer user. If you do not know how you keep it safe, you need to learn.
How to hook it up
Despite the color coded connections and the fact that most cables can be connected to a single hole, tons of people still can not connect to a computer. It's hard to pretend to be computer expert if you can not even get plugged in and switched on without help.
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