In this module of the windows 11 tutorial i'm going to go
over some of the concepts related to the desktop component of the operating system
so the desktop is simply an area where you can place various icons in order to launch
specific programs in your computer and a lot of other cases you can place shortcuts to a website
or even shortcuts to files so in this case we have a bunch of the icons or programs here on the left
now the difference here is that in order for me to open an application from here
for example Microsoft edge I need to double click on these icons to open them up
while from the taskbar here in the bottom if I'm launching something from the taskbar
i'll click only one time in order to open that application so that's one of the differences
now think of the desktop very similar to on your smartphone on the main area of your screen on your
smartphone you typically have a bunch of little icons where you launch for example whether it's
a map application or your chat or Facebook app or whatever it is but those will be on the main part
of the screen those items in the very bottom of the screen where you can make a phone call like
or send a text message that would be part of the taskbar equivalent now on the upper part you'd
have the area to launch those icons so here the desktop it just serves that a placeholder for the
icons as you install different programs different icons will show up on the desktop what shows up on
the desktop depends on whether the application has been configured by default to put an icon
on the desktop you can customize a view of it by simply right clicking on it and notice you have
a bunch of the options here you can change the view to have larger icons or different types of
icons and whether to arrange the icons and on your desktop a certain way align them and even to show
or not show the icons on the desktop also you can create new shortcuts or new folders on the desktop
so if i want a new text document there i can just simply click on new here choose new document or
new excel document whatever i want and there it is now of course to move those things around you
can drag them wherever you want them to delete an icon from the desktop that is quite obvious
you simply select it and you press delete one of the key components of the desktop it's also the
access to the recycle bin so typically anytime you delete something from your computer it's going to
put it automatically in a recycle bin so if you wanted to retrieve something from a recycle bin
you can double click on it and then it will display what you have recently deleted here i
can right click on it and choose to restore it now to customize the desktop right click here on the
desktop choose to personalize it and then under personalize this is where you can change a lot
of the different settings such as the color themes the lock screen and taskbar items and things like
that fonts and so on and obviously here we are personalizing the background and so on so you can
pick different backgrounds photos change those contrasts and so on think of it like modifying
the settings on your smartphone to change the visual look and feel of the applications in there
another functionality that you can access through the desktop by right-clicking
anywhere on the screen here you can also choose to change the display settings
if i wanted to change the font size on the monitor the resolution and so on this is where i'll make
those changes by right clicking and choosing display settings and then work from here
if i right click again on the desktop notice there are some additional options here
and this is more like a look and feel what used to be on windows 10. you