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after your computer finishes loading windows into memory, your arrive at a screen know as the windows desktop. the desktop is the work space,the serf ace on which you spread out any file folder.programs and documents you want to us .technical, the desktop is the area behind all the object on the screen,including any windows that you open. no matter what you do in the windows environments, you can always gate back to the desktop even if you open an application program and expand it to fill the whole screen. below the desktop you will most likely see a gray bar known as the task bar which will be discussed latter.
a typical windows 98 desktop is populated with the little labeled pictures known as icons.when you double-click an icon, you open it up the rectangular frame called a window. the icons that appear on your desktop when you start windows provide quick access to the places on your computer that you visit most often. desktop contain various types of icons.
folder icons open into folder windows which reveal the contents of particulars folders in your computerized filing system.
program icons open into application programs, that is, they load the associated programs into memory and start them running.
DOCUMENT ICONS
document icons open the documents. when you double-click the document icon, windows starts the application (word processing program,spreadsheet,database or whatever)in which the document was created and then opens the document itself.
shortcut icons provide alternative entry-ways to program, documents and folders, shortcut icons always have arrows on them and their labels frequently contain the words"shortcut to"
SPECIAL ICONS
your desktop may also contain a few specialized icons, including the recycle bin, which is discussed latter in this chapter. the others are too specialized to be covered hare.
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