The right-click context menu for the desktop contains options for mounting disks, icon sizes, and other related desktop activities.

BeOS does not auto mount floppy disk drives, but other drive types can be set to auto mount if you wish.

The thing in the upper-right corner is called the Deskbar. The BeOS icon is clickable and reveals a start-menu-like menu. Open applications appear in the Deskbar as well, although multiple windows are collapsed down into one button. Sort of like how Windows 7 works.

It is possible to drag the Deskbar anywhere on the screen. Thus you can make it look more like the traditional Windows task bar if you wanted to.

Tracker is the BeOS file manager, and it is always present in the Deskbar (unless it crashes, I suppose). It supports displaying icons in both large and small sizes as well as a details view.

One thing that pops out immediately is the use of file folder like "tabs" instead of full window title bars on each window. This serves to free up a little bit of screen space, and also gives BeOS a unique look. Haiku, BeOS' replacement, duplicates this.

Tracker has a Macintosh-like Get Info menu option for returning various file properties. Interestingly, these links to applications show up as being zero bytes in size, most likely because they are nothing more than shortcuts or "symbolic links" as BeOS calls them.