FILE MANAGEMENT IN WINDOWS
1 Using Windows Explorer
Windows offer another utility "Windows Explorer" which helps you in working with files and folders on your computer.
To open Windows Explorer,
Click on Start,
Point to All Programs,
Point to Accessories, and then click on Windows Explorer .
The left pane of the Explorer window shows a hierarchy of all the drives, folders and desktop items on your computer. A drive or folder that contains other folders has a plus sign to the left of the icon. Click the plus sign to expand it and see the folders inside.
2 Opening drives and folders
3 Copying or Moving a file or Folder using My Document
Click on Start, and then click on My Documents.
Click the file or folder to be copied. More than one file or folder can be copied at a time.
To select more than one consecutive files or folders, click the first file or folder, press and hold down SHIFT key, and then click the last files or folders.
To select non-consecutive files or folders, press and hold down CTRL key, and then click each of the files or folders to be copied.
Under Edit menu, select Copy.
Select the target drive or folder to which you want to copy the files.
Under Edit menu, select Paste to copy the desired file or folder to the target drive.
4 View file details
1. Click on Start, and then click on My Documents.
2. Double-click the folder that contains the files to be viewed.
3. On the View menu, click Details (see Fig. 1.21).
4. It will display all the details about the files such as Name, Type, size etc.
5 Copying and moving files using Explorer
Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
Make sure the destination for the file or folder you want to move is visible.
Drag the file or folder from the right pane and drop it on to the destination folder in the left pane to move the file or folder there.
If you drag an item while pressing the right mouse button, you can move, copy, or create a shortcut to the file in its new location.
To copy the item instead of moving it, press and hold down CTRL while dragging.
If you drag an item to another disk, it is copied, not moved. To move the item, press and hold down SHIFT while dragging.
Dragging a program to a new location creates a shortcut to that program. To move a program, right-click and then drag the program to the new location.
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