Some icons always on desktop – My Computer, Recycle Bin, Network Neighborhood. Others added as shortcuts to programs.

Run – To execute programs from a floppy disk, CD-Rom, or any program you know the .EXE file name.

Help – Contents and Index. Contents will give help in book form, by showing chapters and subchapters, with a more leisurely style of learning. Index lets you type in key phrases, so you can quickly go to specific need.

Find – You know it's there – but which directory. Use FIND to locate files. By typing in the drive letter, then any part of the file's name, you can locate all matching files, and choose from the list.

Settings – For Control Panel, Printers, and TaskBar.

Documents – List of most currently used documents, for easy access to the document and program used, rather than going through Programs, and then opening the document.

Programs – All installed programs will show up in the Programs list. Any items with the arrow to the right of the name has additional selections to choose from. Those items without the arrow to the right is a program into itself, and is executed directly from the list, i.e. Windows Explorer.

To turn cards over, do a single normal side mouse click. 

To move cards to different stacks, use drag and drop by pointing to the card to be moved, holding down the normal side mouse button and keeping it down, while dragging to the new location, and then let up on the mouse button. 

To add cards to the "Ace" stacks, double click on the card to move to the top.  After time spent using the mouse correctly in this program, you should see significant improvement in your hand-eye coordination.

As an aside, you may have already noticed.  The program won't allow you to cheat and move the wrong card.  It bounces right back to the original location if the card can't be played where you try to move it to.

Minimize will take the solitaire game from the screen, but it will still be active on the Task Bar.  Clicking again on the Task Bar will bring the game back to fill the screen. 

Maximize or Restore:  Maximize will make the Solitaire game fill the entire desktop area.  Restore will downsize it somewhat.  When downsized, you can point to any edge of the Solitaire screen, and resize it by holding down the mouse button, and dragging the edge in or out.  Also you can move the entire window by pointing to the title bar and dragging to a new location on the desktop.

Exit is the quick way to exit from the Solitaire game completely.  It would perform the same function as using the Menu and selecting Exit. 

All Windows 95 programs will have menus with the same Alt+ underlined letter functions. Some menus will include other shortcut keys for different needs – CTRL+P to Print, CTRL+S to Save.

All Windows programs will have help screens, some more extensive than others.

Changes to the program can be made from the menu, such as looking at Game, Options to change the number of cards drawn at one time, or the different ways to score the game. Choose Game, Deck, you can change the front of the cards to a different design. This is also where you can deal yourself a new game, or exit the program.

1. Keep Solitaire open
2. Go to START, PROGRAMS, Accessories, and Notepad.  
3. Once program is open, from the File menu on the Menu bar, select OPEN. 
4. Select the C: Drive, and the WINDOWS directory.  The directory will then show all files ending with the file extension .TXT.  Choose one of these files (scroll past the folder icons, and find the sheet of paper icons.)  Click on it to highlight it and select OPEN.

Notice the similarities.  The Title Bar at the top of the screen shows the name of the program. The 3 icons on the right (Minimize, Maximize/ Restore, and Exit), and the Menu with the underlined character in each word. This will be consistent in every Windows application.

The Mouse Click is normally done with the index finger of your dominant hand. If you click the opposite side of the mouse, you will get a special menu for the area you are pointing to. To select or deselect from the list of options, you would use the normal mouse click.

First you need to decide WHERE to save the file, by selecting the down arrow key after "Save In" at the top of the screen. Once you have the drive, and directory selected, (for example C: Drive, and MY DOCUMENTS Directory) you can then name a file up to 255 characters including spaces.  Save this copy of the file with the name "JUST ANOTHER FILE FOR SANDY"

Once the file is saved, notice the change in the title bar. It should show the name of the program, as well as the name of the document, now the file has a name.

Exit Notepad using the "X" icon on the title bar.