This guide is written for the New Beginners with particular reference to new Windows 7 Users.  In this post you will learn several different ways of opening software applications.

All installed application programs are listed in All Programs menu on the Start menu.

How Confusing!

When using Windows for the first time, one of the frustrations new users suffer from is coping with the many alternatives. There always seems to be a different way to perform a task. Accessing and opening an application is just one example.

I’ll take you through the different ways of accessing and opening applications. For the purposes of this exercise, we’ll concentrate on opening Microsoft Word 2007.

You have installed this popular Microsoft Word on your computer and wish to write a document, but how do you get into the program?

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