When the computer era was just beginning, no one had even heard of any computer mouse. She just wasn't there. Yes, she was not needed, because they were not the same as they are now. PC mouse- an indispensable tool in managing a computer, so we need to know which ones exist and what they are for. It is also important to be able to, and know how to set it up (for Windows users XP). And now we'll talk about working with the mouse.

Previously, the simplest computer mouse had two buttons - left and right. Now all mice also have a wheel button, which is located in the middle between the left and right buttons.

The main button is considered to be the left one, and all the rest (there may be four, five or more of them) are auxiliary. The left mouse button performs the most important actions on the computer, and the right button is used to call additional (context) menus. All this you will soon see and understand for yourself.

Put your right hand on the mouse (if you are left-handed, then under your left hand and work with this hand). The elbow should be on the table. If your elbow is on your weight, then your arm will quickly get tired, and after a couple of weeks of this position you will not even be able to move your finger at all. This is an occupational disease of computer users, and then they arise.

So, cover the mouse with your right hand. Put your index finger on left button, and the middle one to the right. Press your index finger on the left button and release. If you do not have a silent mouse, then the button should click quietly, or, as programmers say, “click”. Click in English means to click. Repeat this movement several times. Try not to strain your hand, and do not tear it off the table.

As soon as you turn on the computer and the desktop is loaded, you pick up the mouse and start moving it around this table. While moving your hand, the mouse cursor should move on the screen in time with your movement.

Very often, in order to open a file or run a program, you need to double-click on it with the mouse. This is called a double click. Many at first cannot click twice with a small interval. It doesn't matter, everyone started with this. Over time, you will practice, and you will click the mouse like a real programmer. At first, I could not put the cursor in the right place, it jumped like a sunbeam.

Ask someone to create an empty folder for you on your computer desktop, move your mouse cursor over this folder, and double-click on it with the left mouse button. Try to keep button clicks jerky and fast. If the click is correct, the folder will open. Close the folder. To do this, move the mouse cursor to the upper right corner open folder(the entire area of ​​the open folder is called a window), and click on the button with a cross (like an arithmetic multiplication sign).

When you hover over this button, it will glow red. The color may be different. It all depends on the settings of the system windows. We will talk about this with you in the future.

Now let's go to the mouse settings and practice in it. To do this, lower the cursor to the very bottom left, and click once on the Start button (in the form of a slightly rotated window).

Do not look that I have other colors. It doesn't matter to you yet. In the future, you will also be able to change the colors as you like.

You should have a menu like this. Find the inscription Control Panel, and click on it once with the left mouse button.

All inscriptions that you can click on with the mouse and go to other windows are called links. Hereafter, I will call them - link.

You should have a window open Control panels.

Find a block in it Equipment and sound, and click once with the left button on the green link Equipment and sound.

Another window will open in which you need to find the Devices and printers block and click on the link Mouse.

You will open a small window Properties: Mouse, which contains all the settings for your mouse. We immediately find ourselves on a tab called Mouse Buttons, where you can adjust the speed of clicking the left button. But we don't need to touch anything yet.

A computer mouse is a device that is a small rounded box. It has at least two buttons. Some modern mice have five buttons and allow you to perform significantly more actions. In addition, more and more mice are equipped with a special wheel that provides even more additional features. As already noted, when working in Windows mouse is used very widely, and it is extremely important to master the operation of this device to perfection.

First you need to learn how to properly hold the mouse in your hand. Bring your palm up to the mouse so that your fingers are above the buttons. Grasp the sides with your thumb and little finger. In this case, do not squeeze the mouse strongly - just lightly touch the side faces with your fingers, put your index finger on the left mouse button, and your middle finger on the right. Do not press your palm against the mouse (Fig. 1.4). It is important that your hand does not get tired when working with the mouse, so relax your hand and do not strain your fingers.

Fig 1.4.

Move your hand to the right and left, and the mouse will easily move with your hand. Look at the screen while doing this and you will see how a small arrow moves across it. This arrow is called the mouse pointer. Whenever you move the mouse, the pointer moves on the screen in exactly the same way. Appearance pointer can be different, but the image of an arrow is most often used. Try moving the mouse and follow the movement of the mouse pointer on the screen (Fig. 1.5). Try moving your mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen. At the same time, if there was no taskbar on the screen, then it should appear. Now move the mouse pointer alternately to the other edges of the screen to get a feel for how far you need to move the mouse to move the pointer across the entire screen.

Fig 1.5.

By pressing the buttons located on the mouse, you can cause one or another action, determined by the location of the pointer on the screen. The left button is pressed with the index finger, and the right button with the middle. It is important to learn how to control the movement of the pointer when moving the mouse, so that you can quickly and easily move the pointer to the desired location on the screen. Don't get frustrated if you can't immediately move the mouse pointer quickly and smoothly. This skill is gained with experience and will come to you with time. It should be noted that most mice move better on a special mat, so having such a mat is a necessary condition for fruitful work with Windows. The exception is modern optical mice, which can work on almost any surface.

Moving the mouse pointer allows you to select the desired object on the screen, and to perform any action with it, you must use the mouse buttons. The left button is much more often used, but sometimes the right button is also used. Pressing and then quickly releasing the mouse button is called a click. Often novice users fail to click on an object because the mouse moves to the side when clicking. Pressing any mouse button should be done with a slight movement of the finger located above it. In this case, all other fingers should be relaxed and practically not touch the mouse. If you firmly hold the mouse in your palm and try to press the left button with your index finger, you will most likely move the mouse and click in the wrong place.

Attention

Do not squeeze the mouse hard, do not hit the buttons, do not press your entire palm against the mouse. Freely, without tension, hold the brush over the mouse and with light finger movements move it to the sides and press the buttons.

Since the left mouse button is used more often, for simplicity we will not say “Click the left mouse button”, but simply “Click the mouse”. If it is not specified which mouse button to click, then the left button is meant. The left button selects various items on the screen.

Click right click The mouse is also quite often used and designed to open various menus, from which you will learn below. Double-clicking is the quick act of pressing the mouse button twice in a row. This technique is more complicated, so you may not get it right away. The main thing when you double-click is to press the mouse button twice as quickly as possible. You should be able to click the mouse button twice in less than a second. A slow button press is perceived by Windows not as a double click, but as two regular single clicks. In accordance with this, an action that you do not need at all can be performed. While basic mouse operations such as pointer movement and button clicks, Windows also performs more advanced mouse operations such as drag and drop, often referred to as drag and drop. This technique is used to move icons around the screen and is used for various purposes. For example, when you drag an icon from folder to folder, you move the file associated with it to a new location. The reception consists of several parts. First you need to move the mouse pointer to the dragged object. After that, you need to press the left mouse button and, without releasing it, start moving the mouse. The object on the screen will move along with the mouse pointer. After you position the object in a new location, you should release the mouse button. The object will remain in the new location.

Single and double clicks, as well as dragging, will be constantly used by you when working with the system. Now, after we got acquainted with the basic techniques of working with a mouse, we will begin to master the Windows system. As we progress, we will tell you how to use the mouse in certain cases, but for now we will begin our acquaintance with learning how to start the operating Windows system XP and finish working with it.

Quick and skillful use of the mouse greatly facilitates the work with the graphical interface. After loading operating system, a slanted white arrow, called the pointer or cursor , appears in the center of the desktop. Hovering over an object is carried out by moving the mouse over a special surface - .

The classic mouse is equipped with two function buttons: left and right. Between them is a scroll wheel, the main purpose of which is to scroll the document vertically. By holding the left mouse button and scrolling the wheel, you can change the scale of the document in the direction of increasing or decreasing.

The left mouse button is the most used, so it is customary to say: click the mouse or click the mouse, which means pressing the left button. Historically, pressing a button computer mouse called "click": double click, click with the mouse, click on the link, etc.

When the mouse cursor is over an object and the button is pressed, an action is performed that can be applied to this object.

Basic mouse handling.

Consider the basic techniques of working with the mouse.

• Single left click. Highlights the selected object on which the mouse cursor is located.
• Double left click. Launches programs, opens or . When working with text documents, double-clicking selects words and paragraphs. If you double-click on a word, it will be highlighted. An entire paragraph is selected by double-clicking to the left of the paragraph.
• Triple left click. Technique used when working with text documents. Triple clicking within a paragraph selects the entire paragraph. Triple clicking to the left of the document will select the entire document.
• Single right click calls contextual with selection possible actions to the object.
• Drag with mouse. A technique for moving one or more objects, and in the case of working with text documents, moving text fragments. The trick is to hold down the left mouse button while the cursor is on the object and move this object to the desired location.
• Mouse Selection. This technique is used to select several objects or a section of text. Selection is carried out by placing the cursor in any corner of the place where the necessary objects or test fragment are located, holding down the left mouse button and moving the cursor in the opposite direction diagonally. Those. if you set the cursor to select text or a group of objects in the lower left corner, then you need to drag it to the upper right corner. The selected objects or text fragment will be highlighted in color. To remove the selection, you need to click anywhere on the screen.
• Scrolling a document with the mouse wheel. Allows you to scroll the document in a vertical plane directly with the scroll wheel or by moving the mouse. In the case of moving with the mouse, you need to press the wheel, the cursor will take the form of a double-headed arrow, and moving the mouse up or down will move the text in the same direction. Pressing the scroll wheel again will turn off this mode.