Windows Essentials
Get comfortable with the everyday parts of Windows. Understand what you see and practise useful skills.
Choose the units that are useful to you. Lessons within each unit offer a suggested order, and any lesson you have completed counts wherever it appears.
Your route through this path
11 units · 115 lessons available
Your Windows workspace
Recognise the desktop, manage app windows and understand where your work is.
4 lessons · Start here
Make Windows easier to use
Explore ways to see, hear and control your computer that suit your own needs.
9 lessons · Explore this unit
Files & folders
Give your files a home, and understand where to find them again.
12 lessons · Explore this unit
Apps for everyday tasks
Understand common apps, choose a tool for the job and recognise the controls you will meet.
10 lessons · Explore this unit
Settings and connections
Make everyday controls comfortable and connect your computer to networks and devices.
7 lessons · Explore this unit
Set up a new computer
Follow a useful setup route through accounts, connections, files, backups and personal settings.
11 lessons · Explore this unit
Care and troubleshooting
Check what has changed, protect your work and try sensible steps when something is not working.
7 lessons · Explore this unit
Find the cause of a problem
Compare evidence and try one useful check at a time for everyday device problems.
9 lessons · Explore this unit
Recovery and safe reuse
Understand recovery choices and prepare your files and access before making major changes.
6 lessons · Explore this unit
Windows shortcut mastery
Small shortcuts for everyday tasks. Learn when to use each one, how to press the keys and where it works. Lessons you have completed elsewhere already count here.
55 lessons · Optional exploration
Useful Windows extras
Optional tools for working with several files, devices and tasks. Choose the features useful to you.
10 lessons · Optional exploration