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Top 10 tips for Mac users getting started with Windows
For many Mac users, the most challenging aspect of working with Microsoft Virtual PC is learning how to operate in a Windows environment. In an effort to help you jumpstart the Windows learning curve, this article describes 10 things it might help you to know when you start working with Windows.
Your best friend while you're learning might be the Windows online Help. To facilitate searching for information, we provide terms you can search for. Windows Help is available from the Start menu. (See Tip 1 below.)
Note Depending on which version of Windows is installed and how it is configured, your virtual machine might not look exactly like the pictures we've included from Windows XP Professional.
1. Starting a program
The Windows desktop includes a Start button in the lower left corner. Click the Start button to display the Start menu, which contains shortcuts to the programs that are installed on the virtual machine. (Not sure what a shortcut is? See Tip 7 below.) Click a program shortcut to start the program.
The following picture shows the Windows Start menu.
Frequently-used programs appear at left. Click All Programs to display a list of shortcuts to all the programs that are installed on the virtual machine.
Note Virtual PC adds a Start button to your Mac Dock for you. To start a program when Virtual PC is not yet open, use that Start menu to start your virtual machine and go directly to the program you want.
To learn more, search Windows Help for start program. To open Windows Help in Windows XP, click Help and Support on the Start menu.
2. Managing windows in Windows
The techniques for moving, maximizing, minimizing, and resizing windows are similar to the corresponding techniques on the Mac. For example, you can move a window where you want it by dragging it by the title bar, the same way you move a window on your Mac.
The following picture shows a Windows program, Internet Explorer for Windows, running in a Virtual PC session. The controls for managing open windows are numbered and described below.
Title bar Drag a window to a different location by its title bar.
Minimize button Click this button to hide the window temporarily. You can restore the window by clicking its corresponding button on the taskbar (see below). This behavior is similar to the way a window on the Mac minimizes to an icon on the Dock.
Maximize/Restore button This button changes, depending on the state of the window. The Maximize version of the button appears in the picture. Click it to expand, or maximize, the window to fill the entire Virtual PC window. Click it again to restore the window to the size it was before you maximized.
Close button Click this button to close the entire window and exit the program. (See Tip 10.)
Resize Click here and drag in any direction to resize the window. If the window is maximized, you cannot resize the window manually. First click the Restore button (see above), and then you can resize.
Tip You can resize the window by dragging any corner of the window, not just the bottom right.
Taskbar The taskbar includes a button for each instance of a program or folder window that is currently open on your virtual machine. In the picture, only one Internet Explorer window is open, so there is only one button on the taskbar. Click the button to display or minimize the corresponding window.
3. Setting System Preferences
The Windows equivalent of Mac OS X System Preferences is the Control Panel. By using the Control Panel you can set options for your display, sounds and audio devices, networking, date and time, and much more. The Control Panel is available from the Start menu described in Tip 1. To display components of the Control Panel, click Control Panel on the Start menu.
To learn more, search Windows Help for control panel overview.
4. Getting information about a file
When you need information about a file on your computer, such as the file type, the dates it was created and modified, and the name of the person who created it, you might be accustomed to using the Get Info command on the File menu in Finder on your Mac. You can get the same type of information about a file on your virtual machine. Hold down CONTROL and click the file, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
5. Creating a shortcut (alias) on the desktop
Is your Mac desktop littered with aliases to your favorite files and programs? If you typically use aliases to open files and folders on your computer, you can continue to work that way on your virtual machine.
In Windows, an alias is called a shortcut. You can create a shortcut to almost anything, such as a file, a folder, a program, a network location, or a Web page. Follow these steps to create a shortcut on your desktop.
Add a shortcut to the desktop
On the Windows Start menu, click My Computer.
Double-click a drive or folder that contains the item you want to create the shortcut to, such as a file, program, folder, printer, or computer.
Click the item, and then click Create Shortcut on the File menu.
If necessary, resize the window so you can see the Windows desktop.
Drag the new shortcut to the desktop.
To learn more about shortcuts, search Windows Help for create shortcut.
6. Searching for files and folders
To search for a file or folder on a PC, click Search on the Start menu.
You can search by one or more of a variety of criteria. For example, the following picture shows where to enter criteria to search for files and folders in Windows XP.
To learn more about searching for files and folders, search Windows Help for search for a file.
7. Using keyboard shortcuts
For those who prefer typing keyboard shortcuts instead of using commands on menus — for example, typing COMMAND+S instead of clicking Save on the File menu — we have good news and bad news.
The good news: Most Windows programs provide an abundance of keyboard shortcuts.
The bad news: The standard Windows-based keyboard is different from a standard Mac keyboard. For example, the COMMAND and OPTION keys do not exist on a Windows-based keyboard. Generally, if the Mac keyboard shortcut contains COMMAND, such as COMMAND + S for Save, the analogous shortcut for a Windows-based program uses the CONTROL key on a Mac keyboard.
It might take some adjustment to become comfortable with the Windows-based shortcuts, such as Cut (CONTROL+X), Copy (CONTROL+C), Paste (CONTROL+V), Open (CONTROL+O), Save (CONTROL+S), and Print (CONTROL+P). If you find it difficult to reprogram your fingers to press different keys, you might prefer to use the corresponding menu commands instead.
8. Using CTRL+ALT+DELETE
This odd key combination is familiar to veteran Windows users. Depending on which version of Windows is installed and how it is configured, this key combination does a variety of things. In some versions of Windows, it allows you to log on and log off the computer. It can also bring up the Task Manager, a program that lets you interrupt a program that is misbehaving, somewhat like Force Quit on the Apple menu in Finder.
Because a Mac keyboard does not include all the keys necessary to press this key combination, Virtual PC provides a menu equivalent. When you need to press this key combination, click Type-Ctrl-Alt-Del on the PC menu in Virtual PC.
To learn more about what this key combination is used for in your version of Windows, search for CTRL ALT DELETE in Windows Help.
9. Exiting a program
In Windows programs, closing the program window has the same result as clicking Exit on the File menu — the program quits. The exception is when another instance of the program is running — for example, if you have more than one Microsoft® Word document open. In that case, closing the last open program window exits the program.
To close the program window, click at the upper right corner.
10. Shutting down
The quickest way to shut down a session on a virtual machine is called Fast Save. Simply close its window by clicking the Close button at the upper left corner of the window. Virtual PC saves the details of your session, such as windows and documents that are open, so it can restore the session next time you start the virtual machine.
However, you can also shut down a session the same way that Windows users typically do, by clicking a command on the Start menu. (This might sound paradoxical, but it makes more sense if you consider that the Start menu is starting point for most processes, including shutting down.)
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