After you log into your computer, you will be brought to the Desktop. This is the primary way for you to interact with your computer. All Windows, Menus, and Programs you interact with will be done while on this Desktop. Before we dive into how we use all of these features on our computer, we should first give them some names.

In the middle of your screen, you will see something called a Window. These boxes usually contain some sort of Program or part of one. Most Windows should tell you the name of the program you are running with a label on the top-most part of the box. In this case, this is the Welcome Screen.

In the top-left corner of our screen, we should see two pictures, or icons, that represent Launchers. These Launchers, when activated, will launch its corresponding program in a new Window. In this case, we have two Launchers - the Computer and Home launchers. You can activate them by double-clicking (moving your cursor, or arrow, to sit on top of the launcher and quickly pressing the left-mouse-button twice).

The Panel is the bar that sits along the bottom of our Desktop. Most of it is a black bar, but on both the right and left sides we have a few pictures, or icons. The left side contains our Menu (we'll talk more about that later) and a few more launchers. Unlike the launchers on our desktop, though, you only need to left-click these icons once, instead of twice.

On the right side of our Panel we have a set of (mostly) white icons. These are called applets and are shortcuts to some of the most common system settings. This can be something like the volume of our speakers or headphones, the wireless network (Wi-Fi) settings, date and time, and more! Each of these applets have a larger piece of software (program) that will have many settings, but the most commonly changed settings can be quickly accessed through the applets.

If we take a look at our Welcome Screen window, we can see a few different components. Many of these components will be seen in all or most of the windows we interact with.