The Taskbar Overview

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The Taskbar Overview



In fig 1.1 above you can see an example of a typical Taskbar.

We have pointed out the areas of interest, these are explained below:

Start Button - access to the start menu (covered in part 2 of our win 98 tutorial).

Quick Launch Bar - This is a handy feature of Windows 98, you can add icons to this area and it provides quick access to programs and/or documents even when the desktop isn't visible, we will be looking at the quick launch bar more closely later in this section.

Windows Tabs - These are used to switch between any open programs, documents, etc, in our example we have 2 windows open (word and excel). To change from one window to another simply click on the corresponding window tab, clicking a second time on the same tab will minimise the window.

System Tray - The system tray displays icons for programs that are loaded into memory, although not all programs place an icon in this tray. We will cover the system tray in detail later in this section