Some Notes on the Windows Operating System

Every semester about 500 students successfully complete this process. Please feel free to ask other students if you get stuck; and, if someone gets stuck and asks you a question, please try to help them. Mastering the use of the operating system is NOT an academic part of the course, so feel free to give and take help

_ Minimize: Show window only on the Task Bar

[] Maximize/Midimize: Window fills/is-in Desktop

X Terminate: discard the window

If a window is minimized, click it on the task bar and it will open and move to the desktop. When a window on the desktop is maximized, it fills the entire screen; when such a screen-filling window is midimized, it returns to its original desktop size.

When you arrive at a machine, you should see a Welcome to Windows box displayed.

• Hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys and press the Del key (often written Ctrl+Alt+Delete); a Log on to Windows box will pop up.


• In the User Name box, enter your Andrew username.


• In the Password box, enter your Andrew password (it will appear as *'s).


• Ensure the Log on to option box says ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Kerberos Realm); if it is showing anything else, select this option from this option box.


• Click the button labelled OK or press the Enter/Return key.

If you enter your username and password correctly, you will be logged on; otherwise repeat this process until you successfully logged on.

Programming assignments must be turned in as single zip file that contains all the files inside a project folder. To zip all the files in a folder named F, for example, into a single zip file