The desktop icons

Each little picture on the desktop is an icon. Each icon, in turn, represents some program you can run,
or some location on your computer where things are stored. The desktop icons on your computer
probably won’t match the ones shown in the figure, because different computers have different
programs installed. And all Windows users (including you) can easily add new desktop icons, and delete
unused ones, to their liking.
To open an icon, you either click or double-click it, depending on how your copy of Windows XP is
currently configured. If you click a desktop icon and it doesn’t open up into a window, your computer is
set up for double-clicking. You’ll have to double-click icons to open them for the time being. The section
“To Single-Click or Double-Click” later in this chapter shows you how to choose one method or the
other.