Status Bar

The Status bar is located at the bottom of your open application Also called a 'program', an application is a digital tool used to create, display, or calculate the input of the application user. Each applicaton is 'opened' in its own 'window', a separately bordered area of the screen. The "Windows" operating system is an 'application', designed to accept input from you, and perform actions, or display the result on the screen (like moving the mouse to a different place on the screen). . It tells you the current status of the page, document A user-created computer file. The word 'document' is often misunderstood as being limited to a form of letter. In fact, a document, as the term is used in computers today, can be an image file, or sound file, as well as a text-based file...it can even be a file that combines images, sound, and text. This combination file would be known as a 'multi-media' document., or application you are now viewing.

Application or 'Context' Specific

Information contained on the Status Bar will differ, depending on the application type. The Status bar shown is from Internet-Explorer Also known simply as 'IE', Internet A combination of all the computers that are 'connected' through phone lines or other transmission types. Also called the world-wide-web (www), because a graphical representation of all the connections might look like a spider-web covering the surface of the earth. Explorer is a web-browser program Also called an 'application'. A 'program' creates, displays, or calculates the input of the program user. Each program is displayed in its own 'window', a separately bordered area of the computer screen. Programs generally fall into two groups, an 'application program', or a 'system program'. that allows you to download The act of transferring a digital file from a remote computer, to your own. Downloading a file involves the two computers (the one sending and the one receiving) establishing a 'protocol', or common language between them. The file is then sent in 'packets', or small pieces, and re-assembled at the receiving end. pictures and words from Internet sites, and display 1) To present or show, as in 'to display the contents of a folder', or perhaps a picture. Or... 2) The overall 'look-and-feel' of the computer 'Desktop', including fonts, icons, colors, pictures, and more. Or... 3) May also be used to describe the attached monitor, or monitor settings, as in 'My display is a 17" Sony'. them on your computer. Internet Explorer is a part of the Windows 'Windows' is the trade-marked name of a computer operating system (OS) created and owned by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Washington, U.S.A. Versions of Windows include Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP (XP is the current Windows version). Each of these iterations added functionality or stability (or both) to the version before it. operating system, included with every 'Windows' computer., a browser A program designed to download and display text and images from a web 'page' on your computer. There are a variety of good browser applications available, many free, and others for a charge. These include but are not limited to 'Internet Explorer', 'Opera', 'Netscape Navigator', 'Mozilla' and others. program for web pages.

It may display how many images are included on the current page, how many images are yet to be downloaded or, if a database An organized (sorted or sortable) group of records. A phone book is a printed database, with a 'field' that holds the first name, one for last name, one for the phone number, and so on. A group of 'fields' comprise a 'table', and a group of tables make up a database. is being loaded for a search, it will let you know the progress of the search.

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The Internet Explorer Status bar A bar, normally across the bottom of an application, that displays the current status of the application or specific objects in the current window. Example: The Status Bar on the bottom of Windows Explorer (file manager) might display the number of currently selected files, and/or the total file size of selected contents. also contains notification of errors on the current page, if applicable.

The status bar lets you know if the page load is 'done'. At the right end of the Internet Explorer status bar, the 'zone' you are in is identified ('Internet' zone).

Other Examples

Windows Explorer: The Status Bar in Windows-Explorer A graphical interface A boundary across which two independent systems meet and act on or communicate with each other. In computer technology, there are several types of interfaces: User interfaces, Software interfaces, and Hardware interfaces. The purpose is the same in all - to help dissimilar entities communicate. for managing folders and files on the PC Short for 'Personal Computer'. The term 'PC' has come to be accepted as identifying a computer which uses the Microsoft 'Windows' operating system, as opposed to those computers that use other OSs such as 'Apple', 'Unix', 'Linux', or others.. It offers two panes (or 'panels', or 'frames'). The left pane contains the PC's major folders, and the right pane displays the contents of the currently 'selected' folder A special kind of file that acts as a marker, or container, for other files or folders. The purpose of folders is to organize files and other folders. Putting files in the proper folder is like putting the bed in the bedroom, and the toothpaste in the bathroom. Logical storage simplifies finding things later when needed.. Files and folders can be copied, or 'dragged' from one location to another, and otherwise manipulated. will display how many files are currently selected, the total size of selected files, or the available space on your storage media (this last, only when the 'root The base, or beginning of your computer filing system. All files and folders are 'branched' out from the root. For example, the 'root' of your first hard drive is designated (C:\), the backward slash being a designator for the 'root' of the drive. If you store your images in a folder off the root of drive (C:)and name the folder 'Images', it will be designated as a main 'branch' of the root, and will be shown as 'C:\Images'. ' is selected).

Application Example: The Status Bar in an application will tell you what the mouse A device used as an interface between user and computer. The 'corded' mouse moves the computer pointer by sensing the movement of a small ball built into the bottom of the mouse. There are also cordless mouses, which may use infrared, radio signals, or pressure to control the movement of a pointing device or 'cursor'. pointer is currently hovering over, 'help' tips, or the progress of your current actions. For instance, if you are saving or opening a large file A collection of data that is given a name. All saved information on a computer is a file. There are different kinds of files, for doing different tasks. For instance, a program file starts or supports a program, a folder file marks other files and folders, and a system file supports the computer system. A document file contains a user-created document. , the Status Bar will tell you the progress of that action.