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Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes are like digital Post-It Notes. In Windows 8.1, just click the Sticky Notes tile - if you can't see one, click the Search button on the Windows 8 Start screen (or click Windows +S key on the desktop) and start typing Sticky.

In other versions of Windows, you can use the search bar at the bottom of the Start menu.

You’ll also find these on a Mac in Applications as well as Widgets and a Chess game.

Paint

Paint is a basic graphics/painting program that is included in all the Microsoft Windows versions. It can be used to draw and paint using different types of artistic brushes or pens. You can also use it to edit pictures, including imported pictures from a digital camera for example.

Wordpad

Wordpad is a basic word processing program, similar to Microsoft Word but with fewer tools and features. It is perfectly adequate for beginners and very useful to use for practising with the keyboard.

Calculator

Included with Microsoft Windows and useful for practising to use the mouse.

Solitaire

A useful game to use to practise using the mouse, it was included with Windows up to version 7. For Windows 8, a free Solitaire app can be downloaded from the Windows Store.

Snipping Tool

This can be used to take screen shots - text or images copied from the screen which can then be pasted into a program such as Word or Wordpad or Paint.

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