What is a Menu on a computer screen?

Answer 1

A Menu, simply means 'A list of options'.

With regards to computer applications, a menu is a small list of options that you can choose to perform within the application.

For example, If you use Microsoft Word, and you click on the "File" button on the top left of your screen, it will drop down a "Menu" of options for you to choose from.

Also it could be a presentation of a list of choices: It has a way for the user to pick from the choices: they may be numbered, so the user can type in the number, or maybe the user can just click with a mouse, or push the touch screen or another way.

Here's an example: an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is run by a computer software. It displays a menu after the user swipes the card and enters the PIN. {Well usually the first menu you will see is English or Spanish, which may be even before you put the card in}.

The menu items to choose from may be: Account Balance, Withdraw Money, Fast Cash, Transfer money, deposit money. These can lead to other menus to step the user through the process.

Answer 2

If you mean an sub menu on the start menu on Windows then you will need to right click on the start button and click 'Open'. A new Windows Explorer window will open, there should be a folder named 'Programs' or 'All Programs' open this and then create a new folder. You can now put shortcuts and files in this folder and they will appear on the start menu. The sub menu will be named after what you call the folder you have created.

Answer 3

A menu is a list of actions that can be performed by the application when the user clicks on them with the mouse, uses the "key combination" specified on the menu item (usually a "meta" key, such as Control, Alt, or Command, plus a letter, number, symbol, or function key), navigates through the menu using hot keys (usually an underlined letter or number), or uses the arrow keys and then presses Enter or Return on the desired menu item. There are several types of menus, named after how they behave. An application menu, or main menu, is defined by the programmer and mentions actions that are specific to that application. A system menu is the menu provided by the operating system and deal with changing the state of the application (such as minimizing, maximizing, moving, and closing the program). A context menu is one that is invoked by a special mouse click or keyboard button that changes depending on the item that the menu was activated for. Most menus are also called "popup" menus, which mean they do not show their contents until they are activated by a mouse click or key press. Non-popup menus are always on the screen as long as the program is active.

Answer 4

A menu on a computer can be a number of things. Typically a menu is just a list of functions that you can do.

Answer 5

for the menu with the windows logo it is called a "taskbar" but most of the time they just call a menu's for a menu