UNIT- I TOPIC No: 4 Basic Computer Applications WINDOWS COMPONENTS Suneel Kumar Duvvuri Govt. College (A), Rajahmundry Email. Id :
[email protected] DESKTOP When a computer is switched on, booting process will start, after the completion of booting process you can saw a screen is called desktop. Desktop is the first screen when computer is turned on. Desktop has icons, mouse pointer, and taskbar. WINDOWS-10 DESKTOP TASKBAR Taskbar: The rectangular bar that runs horizontally across the bottom of the screen is called taskbar. It provides access to all programs, it include start button, time, etc. You can also switch one program to another program here by using the task bar. Task bar also has quick launch it allows you to open frequently used programs quickly. DEFAULT DESKTOP ICONS Icons are small graphical images that can represent computer programs, files, folders. To activate the icon you double click on it with the left mouse button. The standard icons in windows operating system includes- This PC Network Recycle Bin Documents folder, etc. RECYCLE BIN The files removed by the user in the computer will go to this Recycle bin. Do you want to remove the files permanently from the computer then select ―deletea‖ option in the recycle bin. If you want to get back files from recycle bin to the original location where the file is actually deleted, then select ―restorea‖ option from the recycle bin. THIS PC /MY COMPUTER This is a standard icon and is very useful; it contains all the resources available in your computer. Generally it consists of hard disk drives, removable storage devices, network drives, and user documents and shared documents folder of your computer.