Chapter 2. Explorer, Windows, and the Taskbar

Chapter 2. Explorer, Windows , and the Taskbar

Windows got its name from the rectangles on the screenthe windowswhere every computer activity takes place. You look at a Web page in a window, type into a window, read email in a window, and look at lists of files in a window. But as you create more files, stash them in more folders, and open more programs, it's easy to wind up paralyzed before a screen awash with cluttered, overlapping rectangles.

Fortunately, Windows has always offered icons, buttons , and other inventions to help you keep these windows under controland Windows Vista positively crawls with them.