At the bottom left of your TASKBAR and at the bottom of your screen is your START MENU. By clicking on it and holding, you can choose programs, documents, settings, find, help, run or shutdown, as well as any icons that you place atop START.
Holding down your cursor on one of those program names will open the program.
Holding your cursor on documents will reveal the
last ten documents which you opened. TRY IT
By holding your cursor on a document name, you can open it, provided that it
is still at same location on your computer.
SETTINGS gives you access to the Control Panel, where you can reconfigure your computer and its hardware, as well as alter settings for the software, which enables your computer to operate. You also have access to your PRINTERS folder here, as well as options for your taskbar and programs menu.
In FIND, you can search for programs, files and folders.
HELP provides you with a variety of means for getting help with Windows 95/98 and its accessories.
Using RUN, you can RUN a program from your hard drive or a floppy disk.
Using SHUT DOWN, you have several options for shutting down and restarting your computer.