Windows OS are called standard icons. The standard icons available in all Windows OS are My Computer, Documents and Recycle Bin. Aero peek button Figure . .
Aero peek button . . . .
Shortcut Icons: Shortcut icons can be created for any application or file or folder. By double clicking the icon, the related application or file or folder will open. (Figure5. ) Application Icon Folder Icon Figure .
.The types of Icons Various Disk drive icons Hard disk drives with total and remaining space available Removable Storage (pen drive) Figure . .Disk drive Icons Chapter Page . . .
. Disk drive icons: The disk drive icons graphically represent five disk drive options. (i) Hard disk (ii) CD-ROM/DVD Drive (iii) Pen drive (iv) Other removable storage such as mobile, smart phone, tablet etc., (v) Network drives if your system is connected with other system. You can move to the Desktop any time by pressing the Winkey + D or using Aero Peek while working in any application.
You can see Figure . to know where Aero peek lies in the Taskbar. . .
The Window Window is a typical rectangular area in an application or a document. It is an area on the screen that displays information for a specific program. . .
Application Window It is an area on a computer screen with defined boundaries, and within which information is displayed. Such windows can be resized, maximised, minimised, placed side by side, overlap, and so on. An Application Window contains an open application i.e. current application such as Word or Paint.
When two or more windows are opened, only one of them is active and the rest are inactive. Figures . and . display the Application Window of OpenOffice Writer and the appearance of the Multiple Windows opened (overlapped) in the Desktop.
. . Document Window A document window is a section of the screen used to display the contents of a document. Figure .
is an example of a document window. Note When you open any application, such as OpenOffice Writer, OpenOffice Impress or OpenOffice Calc etc., you will find two Windows