Chapter 13
Relevant Parts of Windows
In This Chapter
Understanding operating systems
Checking out the desktop
Finding the taskbar
Getting at the Start menu
Working with notifications
Opening the Settings app
Accessing the Control Panel
This book’s topic is primarily hardware, the clunky stuff. To make that clunky stuff work, you must interact with software. The chief piece of software in a computer is the operating system. On a PC, that operating system is Microsoft Windows. Frequently, you’ll find Windows rubbing into the PC’s various hardware parts.
What’s an Operating System?
As the top bird on the PC software totem pole, the operating system has several duties:
- Control the computer’s hardware: Hardware does nothing without software to tell it what to do, and the operating system ...
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