What does the taskbar button area contain buttons to indicate on the computer?

Question

The taskbar button area contains buttons to indicate what?

Answer 1

open programs (either running or running in the background(meaning not seen))

Answer 2

The task bar is bar running across the bottom of your screen. It is divided up into three sections. On the left is the "Start" button which will give you access to your most frequently used programs, all programs, and lots of tools used for accessing various folders and functions on your computer. On the right is what is referred to as the "System Tray," which shows small icons representing programs that are typically operating in the background, in other words, they are usually programs that are basic to the functioning of your system, but not something that you start up yourself. Be cautious about fiddling with things in the system tray unless you have some idea of what you are doing.

That leaves the big middle section of the Task Bar. Here is where you will see buttons for the various programs that you have running. Each program will get its own button, typically with an icon and the name of the program on it. Most people use this to be able to switch between programs by clicking on the buttons. If you get too many things open then the system may start grouping items together (example: if you have three Word documents open it might show only one Word button, but with an arrow on, and if you click it, it will then show all the open documents.

There are several useful things to know about this bar. First of all, you can right click on any of the program buttons (the ones in the middle) and see options for closing the program, minimizing it (making it visible only on the task bar), or maximizing it (expanding it to fill the whole screen). You can also right click on the task bar itself and change the way it works. By unlocking it you can actually grab the top edge of the bar with your cursor and drag it upward to make the bar bigger. You can also set the bar so that when it isn't being used is will slide out of sight, all you have to do to get it back is mouse down to the bottom of the screen.

There are various other ways to tweak it, but this should get you going for now.

Answer 3

Just indicates open programs/windows and allows you to switch between them. This is the area between the start button and system tray.

Answer 4

every open window creates a button on the taskbar so you can click on them to swith back and forth between the windows.