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Contributed by: Mike Valdes Bleau on 2/21/2008

(Just ignore any typos)

Suppose your are a computer tecki and when customers bring their computers into the store for services such as repair, upgrades, and customization, they often ask about customizing their Start menu on Windows XP. Since the start menu is even more important in WinXP and proovides induviduals with access to the dirrerent types of resources and applications on their computers, the BOSS asks you to explore techniques for opening, viewing, and understanding the organizationd comtents of the start folder so you can more effectively help individual clients.

After you panick, what do you do next? Here's what the BOSS wants you to do:

Display the shortcut menu for the star button, and choose opoen. What happens next? What does Windows display in this folder window?

Then, form the tools menu, select folder options, and on the view property sheet, choos ethe option for showing hidden files and folders, and remove the options for hiding extensions for known file types and hiding protected operatiing system files.

After you clase the folder options diaglog box and apply these changes, does Windows display any other folders or files in the start menu folder? iIf it does, what are their names?

Then the BOSS wants you to open the programs folder, and switch to details view. What three types of objects display in this window?

Next, he wants you to click the start button, point to all programs, and compare the contents of the all programs menu with the contents of the programs folder. He wants to know how they are similar and how they differ.

Point to the starup on the all programs menu, and view the contents of the starup menu. What options are displayed?

Now close the start menu, and then open the starup folder in the programs window. Any icons in the startup folder are shortcuts, or links, to programs that are automaticall loaded by WinXP when you power on, or restart, your computer. What programs are automatically load on your computer?

He now wants you to open the shortcut menu for the start button again, but this time, choose the Explorer option. How does this start menu window differ from the previous one when you choose open the starrt button's shortcut menu?

You're not done yet. Now expand the programs folder under the start menu folder in the folders toolbar and then select the starup folder. What does WinXP display in the contentsw pane?

If you were to right click an object that represents a folder and select open from the object's shortcut menu, what type of view would you expect to be displayed?

Is there anyu other way that you can switch between these two different views? (with Vista that's a singe).

Now restore you computer's setting that detgermine what displays in a folder window. From the tools menu, select folder options, and on the view property sheet, choosed the options for not showing hidden files and folderfs, for hiding extensions for known file types, and for hidign protected operationg system files. Close the foler options dialog box, apply these changes, tnd then close the start menu window.

Try it. If you do all of the above, the BOSS just might keep you around for a while.

(these are questions from a text book)

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