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Start Menu
When you click Start button on the task bar, the start menu appears. The start menu lists commands and additional menus that list most of all the programs that you can on your computer. You can use the start menu to run almost the entire almost program install on your computer. The start menu usually includes the windows update programs, favorites, documents, settings, find, help, run, and shutdown commands and other commands may also appear on the menu for example: - if you install MS-Office 2000, its installation program adds two commands to the start menu. New office document and office you can customize which programs appear on the start menu.

Task Bar
The Task bar is the row of bottom and icons that usually appears along the bottom of the screen. You can also tell window to hide the task bar when you aren’t using it. The task bar has several parts: 1- Start Button. 2- Task Manager 3- System Tray.

Task Manager
The task manager is a part of task bar that shows button for each program that is run in. If a program displays more than one window, more than one button may appear.
Click a Windows button; select a window that is making that window active. You can also right click a button to see the system menu, a menu commands you can give regarding that window, including opening.

Desktop
Window’s 98 uses your screen as a desktop a work area on which you see your programs. The desktop can contain windows, icons, and the taskbar. You can think of the icons and windows that appear on your screen as “setting” on your metaphorical.
System Tray : The system tray appears at the right end of the task bar. It contains the tiny icons, along with the system clock. The programs related to the icons of the system tray are following:-

Back-up
Back up means making copies of your files so that you can get the information back should anything happen to the originals. A great number of unfortunate things can happen to files.
(a)- A physical disaster like fire, flood or cat hair could destroy your computer.
(b)- A hardware problem could erase same of your files. For example- installing an upgrade to an application program might accidentally write over the folders in witch you stored the previous document that were created with that application.
MS- back up program is available in windows.

Machine Cycle
The machine cycle has four steps:
1- Fetch 2- Decode
3- Execute 4- Store
The time it takes to complete first to steps is called Instruction Time or (i-time). The time it takes to complete last to steps is called Execute Time (e-time).

Voice Mail
One of biggest problem in business is “Phone Tag” where you call someone, discover he or she isn’t there and then leave the message for the person to return your call. When the person got the message and does call back but you aren’t there, so he or she leaves the message for you.
A computer based solution of this problem is called Voice-Mail, which automatically answering and messaging at phone. When you are connecting at a person’s extension, if they don’t pick the phone, the voice mail system answers and asks you to leave a message.

Search Engine
Search engine on web let you look up information using key words that might be in the document you want to find e.g. Yahoo.com and Alta-vista.

Clipboard
The easiest way to move within an application or from one application to another is to use the window’s Clipboard, a handy little tool that works in the background, saving text, numbers, pictures or whatever you cut or copy and allowing you to paste the material somewhere.

Screen Saver
If you walk away from your computer and leave monitor on the same image might be on your screen for hour at a time. Year ago this would tend to “burn in” the image permanently on the screen and so created screen savers program that kick in when the display hasn’t changed in a while. A good screen saver contains some kind of moving image, so that no section of the screen is constantly bright or dark.

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