COMPONENTS OF THE WINDOWS DESKTOP (ENVIRONMENT)
Windows desktop is the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Windows Operating System. The desktop is what is displayed when you log in on most operating systems. It provides a platform for the user to interface with or operate the computer by pointing and clicking the mouse button on graphical symbols to send data and instruction to the computer and get out from it.
NOTE: Whenever a program is started in windows it occupies certain space on screen in which it runs. That frame or box is called a window.
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