What Is A Mouse?
A mouse is a handheld device for moving the pointer around the screen. It is a primary component of the Windows GUI (pronounced “goo-ey” Graphical User Interface) environment. The use of the mouse in Windows allows the user to point at and click on various icons for programs and data files rather than having to type in commands to copy files, open programs, etc. as in the older DOS.
A mouse is a handheld device for moving the pointer around the screen. It is a primary component of the Windows GUI (pronounced “goo-ey” – Graphical User Interface) environment. The use of the mouse in Windows allows the user to point at and click on various icons for programs and data files rather than having to type in commands to copy files, open programs, etc. as in the older DOS.
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Video Transcript What Is a Mouse? I’m Jonathan Ayres with Network for Success and today we’re going to talk about what is a mouse? A mouse is a computer device that allows you to move around the computer screen to manipulate whatever it is you need to manipulate. For example, if you wanted to do a word processing document, you would need to open a word processing program, and how would you do that? Well, there are two ways you can do it. One way is if you had a keyboard, and knew what keyboard strokes, what buttons to push, you could open the program that way, but the easier way is to have a computer mouse, and computers come with mice. Every single computer has a mouse with it. And you use this mouse to move around the screen. Now you’ll notice, as I’m talking here that behind me I have a computer mouse, and I’m moving the cursor on the screen as we talk. And when it comes up close to an object, then that allows me to go over the object and then click, and that will open that object u
