Windows 7 displays its tools, commands, and structure through a graphical user interface (GUI). Graphical user interfaces has the following types of components:
Icon A graphical representation of a program, folder, file, or other object or function. It depends on your Windows 7 settings and the programs installed on your computer, you might have one or more icons on your desktop. Windows 7 assigns an icon to every item you see on your computer to make it easier to identify files, storage locations, and programs.
Desktop Its a area on which you can manipulate icons representing programs, folders, and files.
Pointing device A device such as a mouse that controls a pointer with which you can select objects displayed on the screen.
Menu A list from which you can give an instruction by clicking a command.
Window A frame, usually resizable, within which the computer runs a program or displays a folder or file.
Dialog box A fixed-size window in which you refine instructions by typing information or selecting from the available options.
Taskbar- A place to see all the running programs.
The desktop background you sthat comes with Windows 7. Default Windows 7 desktop background depicts a fish underee when you log on to Windows for the first time might be one of the photographic backgrounds water, with the sun’s rays shining down through the surface of the water above. In either case, you can change the
background to one of the many beautiful photographs. You can have the background switch to a different image as often as every 10 seconds.
