What is "PKM"? What you need to know and understand. Instructions for beginners

Of course, many of the new users who first encounter object-oriented systems based on access to basic functions through additional menus are asking about what "PKM" is. Unfortunately, you need to immediately annoy all users of this level. Do not know what "PKM" means - to know nothing at all.

What is PCM on the computer?

Quite frankly, any user who does not know how this abbreviation stands is simply leading to a state of extreme perplexity! Well, really, even with the most primitive attempt at interpreting this reduction, there can not come to mind something like "Right click with a mouse" or similar "Right mouse button"?

This is the understanding of what "PKM" is. Usually, by means of such a clique, additional menus are called (this will be discussed a little later). But for grandparents who are completely unfamiliar with the device and operation of the operating system and using its capabilities through standard or additional means, we will try to consider this issue in the most detail.

What is "PKM" on the keyboard

It also happens in another way. Sometimes many wayward and ostensibly omniscient users ask themselves what "PCM" is on the laptop's keyboard. Well, what can I say? Only the phrase of the character of Vladimir Zelensky from the "95th Quarter" is asked, told to the show host about the definition of the smartest intellectual in the studio (for reasons of correctness, we will not recall it).

Yes, what is it on the keyboard? Just a set of characters. Right-click to the keyboard has absolutely nothing to do with it. Sometimes, however, there are questions like this (what is "PKM"?) In forum sections or software help, but there is a clear answer that if you do not know this, it's better not to go here at all. Incidentally, the very wording of the question raises a lot of criticism.

Here, anyone, even a beginning user, should understand that the concepts of "PCM" and "LMC" differ only in the definition of the mouse button, which will be pressed at the moment (right or left).

Using context menus

With the called menus, called context menus, it's not so simple either. Usually they contain much more means of access to the selected object (although this is not always the case).

For the simplest example, you can open a file with admin rights in the same Explorer or use a method to view the properties of a file or folder (for example, the size, duration of the sound or display, excluding the scan or bit rate, if these are multimedia files).

The most important misconception

Finally, most users associate the right-click menu using a link to a particular parameter or setting with a panacea for all the problems that computer systems may have.

The fact is that to access some of the functions of the OS itself or some of the features of the programs, this will obviously not be enough. Therefore, before you start to study computer terminology, you should clearly understand what software products and "iron" components are, among which, by the way, there is also a manipulator called a mouse. She does not manage everything from the first try. But a couple of training sessions - and everything will be fine. And even the right or left click, provided that the 3-button mouse is present, will be made completely elementary after several preliminary manipulations.

It is hoped that after reading this material, no one will have a question about what constitutes PKM-type cuts in terms of its use and the call of corresponding context menus with additional lines of access to undocumented or basic settings and parameters.

In addition, it should be noted that the context menus (unlike the main ones) change their structure only in the case of installing programs that spontaneously integrate their teams into the system. The simplest examples are the same archiver programs as WinRAR, WinZIP or 7-Zip. But other applications can change the order of strings and commands, not to mention specialized utilities that are created solely for this purpose.