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position the cursor over the icon for a few moments and a short 
description of the task appears.

Typical tasks in the System tray are Current time, Power usage 
mode, and speaker volume.

To activate a specific task, double-click the appropriate System 
tray icon.

All files on your computer are organized for accessibility using a 
hierarchal file system.

Programs, documents, and other data are held in files. These files 
can be grouped together in folders, and folders can be grouped 
inside other folders for convenient organizing. All the files and 
folders reside in your computer on a storage device, such as a disk 
drive. 

You can think of your computer storage system in terms of office 
equipment. You have a file cabinet (device), that contains folders, 
and each folder may contain documents. Your office may have 
more than one file cabinet, just as your computer may have more 
than one disk drive.

Computers can be connected together to form a network, so that 
programs, documents and other data can be quickly and easily 
shared between computers.

You can use the My Computer feature on the desktop to access 
any file in the Windows file system.

For more information, read the Microsoft documentation that 
comes with your computer.

The “Getting Started” chapter introduced you to the AccuPoint II 
pointing device, which is your basic tool for moving around the 

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