Toshiba Qosmio F25 User Guide - Page 87

Learning the Basics Starting a program 87 2 Point to the program group, in this example, Accessories. The Accessories menu displays. 3 Click the program, in this example, WordPad. WordPad opens. To close the program, click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the program's window. Starting a program from Windows® Explorer If a program is not listed in the All Programs menu, you can start it from Windows® Explorer. Windows® Explorer gives you a view of your computer's contents as a hierarchy or "tree." You can easily see the content of each drive and folder on your computer. To use this method, you should know the file name and location of the program's executable file (this file ends with .exe). This example opens WordPad using its file name, wordpad.exe. 1 Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer. 2 In the left pane of the window, click My Computer to expand the window. 3 In the left pane of the window, click Local Disk (C:). 4 In the left pane of the window, click the folder containing the program, in this case Program Files. Windows® Explorer shows the contents of the Program Files folder on the right side of the window. The left side of the window shows all the folders contained within the Program Files folder. 5 In the left pane of the window, click Windows NT.