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6.2 THE DESKTOP - GETTING TO PROGRAMS

The desktop is the first part of windows that you come to when you start up your computer. Just as your real desk has the things on it you use, phone, calculator, diary etc., so the computer’s desktop has little pictures known as icons of the things you may use on your computer. They’re arranged like a chessboard. A seeing person can mouse click on one of these icons to use it.

At the bottom of the screen is the Taskbar displaying which programs are running at the time, and also some utilities such as battery level on a laptop, the functioning of the internet and the volume of sound. In the bottom right corner is a clock.

To get to the desktop at any point in windows, whatever else you are doing, hold down the windows key, two to the left of the spacebar, and dab at the letter D. Release both keys and Thunder will say Desktop. You can then explore the icons with the ARROW keys, press ENTER on the one you want or keep pressing its first letter till you reach it, e.g. R will take you to Recycle Bin or to any other object on your desktop starting with the letter R.

 

The Free Internet Cafe for the Blind & Visually Impaired, the first in the whole of Africa, which opens the World Wide Web, making The Gambia a leading light in Africa, with this technology by allowing free and total access to surf the net send and receive emails and for students to enhace their studies with the aid of this pioneering software. No more do they need to rely on a third party to read to them newspapers, magazines, books, letters and world wide information.