Exploring Your Computer’s Features

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Exploring the desktop

Finding your way around the desktop

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

Icons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start button

Taskbar

System

tray

Sample Windows® XP 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.

The icons initially displayed on your system desktop include:

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