Both PC compatible and Macintosh computers use a similar interface to allow the user to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. Icons are at the heart of this interface. Icons are graphical representations of specific components of your computer. Icons also represent other important features of your computer system. There may be other components of your computer that are represented by icons.
Windows are frames that usually display the contents of items represented by icons.
These features include the title bar, scroll bars, buttons, and resizing components. Each window has a title bar which shows the name of the item that the window represents. Sometimes all of the items within a window cannot be seen at once. Scroll bars, which are located on the right hand side and bottom of windows, allow a user to adjust the window to see any items that might not appear within the window frame. To scroll, the user places the mouse arrow on the appropriate scroll pointer and then presses the mouse button until the desired item is visible.