what’s a desktop?
Originally the word ‘desktop’ probably referred to the top of a physical desk. The software company Microsoft started using the word to refer to the portion of a PC’s video display “underneath” any open “windows” (the word ‘window’ originally referred to a physical pane of glass in a ‘wall’). The PC desktop optionally contained ‘icons’ (originally meaning ‘pictures’) to startup programs, and/or ‘wallpaper’ (originally meaning actual paper on an actual wall). This was pretty much the meaning of ‘computer desktop’ for PCs running Microsoft software for many years…
Comes now “Windows Desktop Search”, a (free download) search tool from Microsoft. It actually searches your entire PC file system, not just the desktop. In fact, since there’s a limited amount of desktop real estate, you really don’t need a special tool to search it. Nevertheless this search tool displays ‘Search Desktop’ in it’s little text box. So now the desktop apparently refers to the entire PC file system…? Wassup with that?