What do you see?
The intent of this book is
to provide a very “hands-on” guide.
Rather than trying to pick up in the middle
of things, where your screen might display
almost anything, I will start with turning on
the computer. In a typical
installation, Windows 3.1 comes up showing
the Program Manager.
The Windows 3.1 desktop
is what you see when there are no other operations open to overlay it, just as you
can see your own desktop when it isn’t piled high with papers and other important things. Windows allows
“wallpaper” patterns on desktops; I prefer none. The
Program Manager
view above was actually on an
otherwise blank desktop. The tiny pictures with titles are
icons,
the stock in trade of a Graphic User Interface
(GUI.) Each represents something the computer can do for you.
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