SafePC · Online services
Watch a video
Go to a video site, start a video and pause it.
Step by step
- Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
- Click "Browser". In the menu that opened, click the "Browser" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
- Go to video.practice.example. Type "video.practice.example" in the address bar then Enter: you land on Practice Video.
- Pick a video. The page shows small pictures of videos (thumbnails). Click one of them: its page opens and the video starts playing.
- Pause the video. Let it play a moment, then click once in the middle of the video to pause it (or click the ⏸ button at the bottom left of the video). The picture stops.
- Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Browser" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.
These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.
Practice it where nothing can break
SafePC works like a real computer, but nothing you do goes anywhere. Try every button, make mistakes and start again.
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