Different Desktop Style

Windows Desktop & Start menu

Different Desktop Style

In Windows 98 there are three ways to view your desktop and browse through files and folders.

•  Classic style

much like Windows 95 desktop view. You double-click items to open them and each item appears in a new window.

•  Web style

in this view you can browse your desktop and folders like you browse Web pages, by single-clicking items and using back and forward buttons. Items open in the same window rather than in separate windows.

•  Custom style

allows you to choose the options which make your computer easiest for you to use.

Choosing a desktop style

1. Click the Start button to open the Start menu and point to Settings.

2. Click Folder Options. The Folder Options dialog box opens.

3. Click Web Style, or Classic Style and click OK. Or, click Custom and then click theSettings button. Select the options you want and then click OK.

When you turn on Web style you will notice a few things that are new to the Windows operating system. First, files and folders appear as underlined hot links (look at your desktop shortcuts). When you point to them your cursor changes to a pointing hand indicating that you can jump to that item, just like hotlinks on the Web. Most Web style folder windows will look different too. To try out Web style, open the My Computer folder and point to the C drive icon. You should see a description of that object (the C drive) under the My Computer title. And if you point to a graphic file, you see a thumbnail, or miniature, of the picture.