Help System
Again, you first need to familiarize yourself with the prior tutorial GIMP Settings You Can Customize Part 1. Once you have become comfortable with Environment, Interface and Theme on the Preferences menu, you are ready to learn about the next preference option which is the Help System.
The Help System for Windows users will be difficult, because for whatever reason Windows and Linux GIMP installations often package the Help files separately. I am guessing they have to do this for technical reasons.
On the Help System menu, you may see something like this:
When you click on the Help button at the left-hand bottom of the screen.....
Then click on the Help Button.....
You will have the online manual open up in Windows and will probably see something like this:
This allows you to click on various links to learn more about GIMP. Spend sometime clicking around the online manual and become familiar with how to find things when you get stuck.
Barbara