- [Instructor] To work with a program in Windows,
you need to launch it or open it or start it up,
however you want to say it.
I'll show you the two most common ways
to launch applications.
And we'll start with the Start menu.
So in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen,
I'll click the Start button.
And this cluster of buttons at the top of the Start menu
are your pinned applications.
If the application you're looking for is in this group,
you can just click on it to launch it.
And you can also scroll up and down on this list
to see more items.
But if you don't see what you're looking for,
you may need to click this button that says All Apps,
and that will show you a full list
of all of the applications installed on your computer.
So you can find the application you want from here,
then just click on it to launch it.
So I'm going to click on the Maps application
and that program opens.
Program or application or app for short,
they mean the same thing.
Be aware some applications ask for special permissions
the first time you open them.
For example, my computer can identify its location
based on its network connection.
The Maps application wants to use my location data
so it can show where I am on the map.
And there are different things
that applications might ask permission for,
like your built-in camera or your address book contacts.
When you see this, you should stop and think
about why an application might want to use that thing,
then decide if you're okay with that.
And later in this course,
we'll dig deeper into these permission
and app privacy options.
Just remember that no is a perfectly reasonable answer.
But if you say no,
the application might not be able to do
some of the things that it's designed to do.
Okay, let's see another way to launch an application.
In the taskbar at the bottom of the screen,
of course, we have this cluster of icons.
We already know about the Start button.
We're going to skip over Windows search, desktops,
and the widgets button.
The rest of the icons here are either applications
that are currently open,
like the Maps application in this case,
or they are shortcuts to launch other applications.
And again, there's another video in this course
where we'll see how to customize this
so you have exactly the shortcuts you want.
But for now, if you want to launch one of these applications
that you see listed here, you can just click on it.
So if I wanted to open the Microsoft Edge web browser,
I can just click on that icon in the taskbar
and that application launches.
And there you go.
Some of the most important things are also pretty easy.
That's really all you need to launch applications.