What Is This? Windows Basics

4.5. Charm Bar®

In Windows 8.1® and later, there are two pop-up screens available that contain helpful shortcuts to key locations.

The Charm Bar® is found by placing your mouse cursor in the top right corner of the screen.  This causes a bar to slide in from the right.  Here you will find links to Search, Share, Start, Devices and Settings locations on your computer.

All versions of Windows® make use of the bottom taskbar or ribbon bar to hold icons for quick commands to frequently used locations.  In Windows 8® and later you can "pin" any of the items on your tile start menu to this toolbar so that they also appear as shortcuts when you are working in desktop view.  If you hold your mouse over any icon on the toolbar, you will see a text description of the icon.  You click on an item to open that program.