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It is a thin strip like bar that lies at the bottom of the screen. anel askbar contains Start Main Menu button
uick aunch toolbar and System ray. hen windows opens buttons representing these tasks appear on
the taskbar automatically.
System Tray
It is generally positioned towards the bottom right side of the anel askbar. Normally it displays the icon of
applications that are loaded in the temporary memory. hese applications may be active running or inactive
not running .
It lets the user to monitor the opened applications or tools of the computer system. It also provides various
options for setting up hardware devices like speaker and applications like anti-virus software task manager
etc. System tray is also known as Notification rea .
Main Menu/Start Button
It looks like a button and is present at the bottom towards the left corner of the anel askbar. It is the first
icon on the anel askbar. ith the help of this button the user can access all the standard applications
commands and configuration options of computer. hen clicked on this button a menu appears which
is called as Start Menu. hen an item has a down arrow a submenu appears with the selected option. o
display the submenu click on the arrow and select the application program to be opened. he user can open
any of the programs by clicking on its name. he term Main Menu is used in inux whereas the term Start
utton is used in indows.
RUNNING AN APPLICATION
user can run different types of programs or applications in an operating system. hen an application is
opened it becomes the active desktop on the screen. pplications can be opened simultaneously but only
one application window is displayed on full screen. he window in which the user is working is called the
ctive indow .
BASIC COMPONENTS OF INTERFACE SCREEN
enerally an opened window screen of a program or application or tool consists of different sections like itle
ar Frame Menu ar Status ar Scroll ars orkspace etc.
Close
Menu bar
Maximize/restore
Minimize
Frame
Scroll bar
Workspace
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