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Exploring Your Computer’s Features

Exploring the desktop

 

 

Finding your way around the desktop

Your computer’s desktop includes several standard features: icons, Start button, taskbar, notification area, and background pattern.

Icons

Start button

Taskbar

Notification area

(Sample Image) Windows® operating system desktop

Icons

An icon represents a folder, file, or program that can be quickly activated by double-clicking the icon.

You can create a new desktop icon for any folder, file, or program by dragging the element’s icon from its location in a window to the desktop area.

You may see various icons displayed on your system desktop, for example:

Recycle Bin—Holds files you have deleted. You may be able to retrieve these files until you empty the Recycle Bin.

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