Name four types of icons in the windows graphical environment?

Ans: Icons: 

        Icons, the  graphical representation of a windows element, play a mojor role in a windows. Commonly used Icons include application icons, shortcut icons, document and disk drive icons. 

       Applications Icons: 

         An active application  window can be minimized to a button on the  taks bar, there by making it inactive. The application icon, usually a graphic showing software packages logo, is positioned on the button. Point and click(or double-click in windows 95)  on the button or icon to restore the window and the application to active status. 

       Shorcut icons: 

       A shortcut icon to any application, document, or printer can be positioned on the desktop in a folder or on a shortcut bar. The shortcut icon has an arrow in its lower left corner, shorcut are clicked(or double-clicked in windows 95) to begin an application. 

Document Icons: 

The active document window, which is a window which is a application window, an be minimized to a document icon within an applicaiton's work space. Point and click on the document icon to restore the document window. 

Disk-Drive icons: 

The disk drive icons graphically represent several disk-drive options, floppy, hard network (hard), removeable disk(fir exanokem zip disk drive) and CD-ROM(including DVD and CD-RW). The floppy (A), Hard Disk (C, D and E) and CD-ROMs(F and G) icons reemble the faceplates of the disk drivers or show the type of storage media. Typically. PCs have only one or two floppy drivers, assigned to A and B.