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1. Pop up the Windows NT Workstation Start menu (from the Start button on the Taskbar) and then
choose the Help command. Type the 1st three letters of mouse and
you can then see the mouse help topics. Select the configuring topic
and then click the Display button.
On 2nd page;
see task #4.
See later when
doing exercise #5,
bottom of page 2.
2. Try the double click speed at the
fastest setting, after reading the
warning and the Ghostbusters
Staypuft Marshmallow man reference.
3. Try the double click with the speed
set all the way to the left. Can you
click, wait ½ second until doing the
2nd click and have the computer sense
it as a double click? Does it allow
waiting one full second?
14 Shapes.
Try the double-click here.
Try out each of these settings.
Warning: Do not
click OK button with
double-click speed set
to Fast. That is a Mr.
Staypuft size slimer.
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See the 14 Shapes figure of the Mouse Properties Pointers dialog box at the top of previous page.
14 Shapes.
4. There are 14 different mouse pointer shapes listed in the Mouse Properties dialog box. Fill in the
following table with the name of each shape and a hand drawing (pen or pencil) of each shape that the
mouse pointer can take on.
Mouse Pointer Shape name
Your drawing (sketch) of the mouse shape
1. Normal Select
2. Help Select
3. Working in Background
4. Busy (Days of our Lives icon)
5. Precision Select
6. Text Select
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
5. Close out the Help window you have been using, then refer back to page 1, repeating step #1, but this
time go to the help topic shown below. Read the Tips, then test the To adjust the speed of topic.
Refer to the following textbox back on page 1. Mouse motion is the topic.
See again when
doing exercise #5,
bottom of page 2.