New lap top. Advice needed.

[upahill]

I've also posted this on chat so sorry if you get this twice!!

All I have ever used a computer for is MN, email, internet browsing and listening to the radio and an odd bit of shopping.

Dh has bought me a lap top and I know I'm missing a trick.

Please advice things I can do, what all the functions buttons can do eg Alt, F1 F2 etc.

What for example is the key with pause break for? Also PrtSC?
Any tips would be useful. Anything in fact so that I can get more use from this other than MN and watch Come dine with me on 4OD!!

"Please advice things I can do, what all the functions buttons can do eg Alt, F1 F2 etc."

It depends on the program that's running, they usually give short cuts to certain menu functions. There is a vague standard on Windows that F1 brings up a help screen for what you're doing.

The "pause break" is similar, different programs will use it for different things, and many of them not at all.

"Also PrtSC?"

On Windows that will do a grab of the screen to the clipboard, so you can then go into a program (art package or document) and do a paste of it.

Pressing ALT and PrtSC will grab only the currently active window and not the whole screen.