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 1. Common term used to describe a
standard type of computer that is not easily portable and often left on or around your home or office desk. Additional information about computer cases can be found here. To the right is a picture of the Dell Precision 390 computer courtesy of Dell Inc and an example of a Desktop PC.
2. When referring to an operating system
or GUI, the Desktop is a system of organization of icons on
a screen. The Microsoft Windows Desktop was first introduced with
Microsoft Windows 95 and has been
included with all versions of Windows since then. Below is a basic example of the Microsoft Windows desktop.
Windows 95 Desktop
As can be seen in the above example picture of the Microsoft
Windows desktop. In this picture the blue and white clouds
wallpaper and the
icons on the left side of the
picture above the Windows Taskbar
is considered all part of the Windows Desktop.
Also see: CTD, Microcomputer,
Nettop,
Operating system
definitions, PC, Presentation manager,
Slimline model
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