Every user’s initial view of Star is the “Desktop,” which resembles the top of an office desk, together with surrounding furniture and equipment. It represents your working environment – where your current projects and accessible resources reside. On the screen are displayed pictures of familiar office objects, such as documents, folders, file drawers, in-baskets, and out-baskets. These objects are displayed as small pictures or “icons,” as shown in figure 2. You can “open” an icon to deal with what it represents. This enables you to read documents, inspect the contents of folders and file drawers, see what mail you have received, etc. When opened, an icon expands into a larger form called a “window,” which displays the icon’s contents. Windows are the principal mechanism for displaying and manipulating information.