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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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