The Basic Lessons

These Lessons are some of the most basic that any computer user should be fully aware of and able to perform. They also have the distinction of being passed over in most all courses and manuals for beginning and often more advanced courses.

 Try them at your leisure.
You can also copy them to your word processor by following the instructions in the CUT, COPY, Paste lesson and then refer to them till their second nature.

Lesson 1-- Learning the PATH To have any decent competence learn this and how to use Windows Explorer and 90% of your problems are solved.	Lesson 2-- CUT, COPY, PASTE and other nessesary / usefull keyboard shortcuts. These will get you productive and cut down on the messing around.
Lesson  3 -- Protection from intruders and Viruses	Lesson  4 -- A few basic web searching techniques
Lesson 5 - Learn to Super Google  or find more faster and do more faster	Lesson 6 - Indentity Theft prevent and protect yourself
Lesson 7 - The Cal Pac Basic Information Technology Security Summary. Fast tips on protecting yourself and your company	Lesson 8 -  Setup your Wireless network
Lesson 9- Basic Dsl / Broadband Troubleshooting and SETUP	Lesson  10 - How to Setup a network router/modem

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