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Figure 1-3. The desktop is your starting place, the first thing you see after you sign in. It has a shiny,
clean look, as well as the time-honored landmarks—Start menu, taskbar, system tray—just where
they’ve always been.
Meet the Start Menu
Windows is composed of 50 million lines of computer code, scattered
across your hard drive in thousands of files. The vast majority of them are
not for you; they’re support files, there for behind-the-scenes use by
Windows and your applications. They may as well bear a sticker reading
“No user-serviceable parts inside.”
That’s why the Start menu is so important (Figure 1-4). It lists every useful
piece of software on your computer, including commands, programs, and
files. Just about everything you do in Windows can begin with your Start
menu.
