Modern shells perform this task by means of a graphical user interface (GUI) in which objects to be manipulated, such as files and programs, are represented pictorially on the monitor screen as icons.
This functionality of the classic registry is summarized pictorially in Figure 1.
图1 对这种典型注册表的功能进行了总结。
Since computers do not know what images mean, or stand for, the system will not be able to comb through its memory pictorially until its search tools make a great leap forward.