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Learning the Basics
Starting a program
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7 Click Accessories.
Windows
®
Explorer shows the contents of the Accessories
folder on the right side of the window.
8 In the right part of the window, double-click Wordpad or
wordpad.exe.
The operating system opens Wordpad.
To close the program, click the Close button in the
upper-right corner of the program’s window.
Starting a program from the Run dialog box
This example uses the Run command to start Wordpad:
1 Click Start, then click Run.
The Run dialog box appears.
Sample Run dialog box
2 In the Run dialog box:
❖ For a program in the Windows
®
folder, type just the
program name. Otherwise type the full file path, if you
know the program’s location. Then click OK.
❖ If you do not know the location, click Browse....
In the Browse dialog box, enter the file name (for
example wordpad.exe) and select the drive to search.