---
title: "Getting around Virtastic 95"
description: "How the Virtastic desktop works: icons, windows, the Start menu, the taskbar, and running the apps."
book: "Using Virtastic 95"
order: 10
---
Virtastic 95 is our website, dressed as a desktop. Every page opens as a window, and the apps we
maintain run as programs on it. Nothing is installed on your computer.
## Desktop icons
Click an icon once to select it, and double-click it (or press Enter) to open it. The arrow keys
move the selection, and right-clicking an icon shows its menu, including Properties. Press F1
anywhere to open this page.
- **Apps** lists every app we maintain. **Documents** holds the manuals, help and legal pages.
**Blog** holds our posts and white papers, and **News** every release and software update.
- **About Us** says who we are, **Get Involved** how to help build the apps, and **Contact Us** how
to reach us. **Donate** supports the work.
- **GitHub**, **Reddit** and **Discord** open our community pages in a new tab.
- The app icons start the apps. An app that is coming soon says so, and offers to e-mail you when
it launches.
## The Start menu
Click **Start** in the bottom-left corner:
- **Programs**: every released app, and **All Apps**.
- **Documents**: the documents you opened recently, then **Read Latest** (our newest post), the
[Blog](
/blog/), [News](
/news/) and [All Documents](
/docs/).
- **Help** (this page), **About Us**, **Get Involved** and **Contact Us**.
- **Get Updates...**: an e-mail when we launch something new.
- **Donate...**: Patreon and Ko-fi, if the apps are useful to you.
## Windows
- Drag a window by its title bar. Drag the bottom-right corner to resize it.
- The three buttons at the top right minimize, maximize and close it. Double-clicking the title
bar also maximizes, and double-clicking the small icon at its left closes the window.
- Every open window has a button on the taskbar. Click it to bring the window to the front, or
click it again to minimize it.
Links you share still work: every window has its own address, and opening one in a new browser
tab shows that window on its own.
## Running the apps
Opening an app shows its box: **Play** starts it, **Website** shows its page, **Manual** opens its
documentation and **GitHub** its source code. Most apps run inside a Virtastic Navigator window on
the desktop. Morrowind and Jagged Alliance 2 open in a tab of their own, because they ask you to
choose the folder that holds your game files, and browsers only allow that outside a window like
this one. Either way the app runs on your own computer, in your browser.
The apps need a desktop Chromium browser: Chrome, Edge or Brave. One app runs at a time. Closing its
window stops it, so save your work first.
## On a phone
The desktop icons are your home screen: tap one to open it. Each window opens full screen, and the
taskbar switches between them. The apps play on a computer, so on a phone an app's window offers
**Share Link** to send it to one.
