Program Manager is the main program in Windows 3.1. What you see when
you look at Program Manager are various program group icons. If you
double click on these program group icons the program groups are
opened and other icons are visible. These various icons are symbolic
because they do not really represent files or directories; they are
pathways to files, programs or directories. These icons may be deleted
without deleting the file itself. If the icon is deleted, the program
is still in your computer. The icons may also be copied into several
program groups for the convenience of the user. For example, file
manager is used so frequently, the icon (which is usually a yellow
file cabinet) is copied from the main program group to other program
groups such as accessories.