Windows Menus

* Because there are various assignments you can perform on the computer, the operating system also provides many categories of objects. These objects allow you to perform available actions. The actions you can perform on the computer may depend on the object on which the action is performed and various other options. One of the objects the computer provides is called a menu.
* In the previous lesson, we saw that when you right-click on the desktop, you see a series of words. This series of words is called a menu. A program's menu, simply referred to as a menu, is a series of words usually aligned on a (vertical) column, each line of words indicating a particular action. Like everything else you will use on the computer, a menu depends simply on the person who created it.
* To use a menu, you must first know whether and where it is available. We also saw that the menu that appears depended on what you had right-clicked: the Taskbar, an empty area on the desktop, or a picture on the desktop. The menus available on the programs are as varied as the programs themselves are.

Practical Learning: Opening a Menu
1- Start the computer
2- Click an empty area on the desktop and notice that nothing happens and nothing displays
2- On the Taskbar, click Start:

4- Notice that a menu appears
5- Right-click an empty area on the desktop. Notice that a different menu appears
6- Right-click an empty area on the Taskbar and notice the menu that appears

7- Right-click the clock on the right section of the Taskbar and notice the menu that appears:

8- Right-click Recycle Bin and notice the menu that appears
9- Click an empty area on the desktop. Notice that this dismisses any menu that was opened.

The following descriptions and rules apply to all menu items of all programs of the

Microsoft Windows computer regardless of the below screenshots