Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Don't be confused by a program's icon on your desktop and a program's button on the taskbar along the bottom of your screen. They're two different things. The button at the bottom of the screen stands for a program that has already been loaded into the computer's memory. It's already running, ready for immediate action. The icon on your desktop or in Windows Me Explorer stands for a program that is sitting on the computer's hard disk waiting to be loaded.
If you mistakenly click the icon in the Windows Explorer or desktop rather than the button on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, you load a second copy of that program. Two versions of the program are loaded: one running as a window, and the other running as a taskbar button waiting to be turned back into a window.
Running two versions can cause confusion -- especially if you start entering stuff into both versions of the same program. You won't know which window has the right version!
If you mistakenly click the icon in the Windows Explorer or desktop rather than the button on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, you load a second copy of that program. Two versions of the program are loaded: one running as a window, and the other running as a taskbar button waiting to be turned back into a window.
Running two versions can cause confusion -- especially if you start entering stuff into both versions of the same program. You won't know which window has the right version!
