6) Application

This is an application, or program icon.

Double-clicking on it will start the program. It’s not always obvious whether an icon is for a document or a program, but you soon get to be able to spot these things.

7) All folder icons tend to look the same – like a kind of 3D view of a suspension file. Sometimes they’re adorned with other graphics, but they’re usually pretty easy to spot. Double- clicking on a folder icon displays that folder’s contents in another window.

8) Hard Disk icon

Folders, files documents and other items are displayed as little icon.

9) Your hard disk icon (and Wastebasket icon) may be the only ones you see on your desktop. If you insert a CD-ROM, trough, it will appear as an icon on your desktop too. You double-click on it to display its contents.

10) Folder window

When you double-click on a folder or a disk drive, its contents are displayed in a window. These contents can be documents, program or other folders.

11) Wastebasket or Recycle Bin icon

The Wastebasket is where you throw things you no longer need. It doesn’t empty straight away, so you can change your mind if you have to.

12) Menu/menu option

To open a menu, click on its name in the menu bar. This displays a drop-down list. To choose one of the menu options, just click on it (the options are highlighted as the mouse pointer moves over them to help you get the right one). Don’t forget to always shut down your iMas via this menu, NOT by simply switching the power off.

13) Control Strip

The Control Strip offers quick access to many of your iMac’s settings like the speaker volume sound input and CD player controls. Until you’ve found out what these gadgets do, you can ‘hide’ it by clicking on the small ribbed area to the far right. This reduces it to a little handle in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Click this handle if you want to display the Control Strip again.

14) You’ll see these gadgets whenever the contents of a folder won’t fit in the window. You click on either the horizontal or vertical scroll arrows to display more of the contents –either that, or drag on the little blue ‘scrollbox’.

15) This background image can be swapped for many more via the Appearance control panel. You can use a repeating ‘pattern’ or a single image – scanned photograph for example.

3. Decide if the sentences are true (t) or false (f).

1. The desktop appears before you boot up.

2. Files are usually inside folders.

3. People usually put their favourite programs on the desktop.

4. Use the C: drive to open floppy disks.

5. You cannot change the background picture of the desktop.

6. The Control Panel folder contains the Date/Time icon.

4. Find the words in the text that mean.

1. comes into view so you can see it (paragraph 1) ________

2. the picrure or colour on your screen (1) _______________

3. clicking the mouse two times quickly (2) ______________

4. something that holds documents or files (2) ___________

5. most important (3) _______________

6. make something the way you want it (4) _____________

5. Complete sentences (1-7)with the words in the box.

Display screen saver folders Recycle Bin

files deleted desktop

1. The ____________ icon lets you change the way your desktop looks.

2. If you remove a file by mistake, you can find it in the ___________.

3. The ___________ appears when you don’t use the mouse or keyboard.

4. I didn’t use that program very much so I ___________ it from my desktop.

5. I have a great program on my ___________ that I use for playing music.

6. Windows Explorer lets you move ___________ from one folder to another.

7. _________ contain documents or files.