Windows Explorer

Window's Explorer

Directions about Window’s Explorer can be found on p. 88-89 of your book.

Before we can play with Window’s Explorer

Create a folder on you’re A drive and place some files in it.
From the Desk Top
Double Click on My computer
Single Click on 3 ½ Floppy A:
Right Click somewhere in the window
Select New and then folder
Right Click on the New Folder
Select Rename
Rename the folder “My Junk”
Now click on one of the files that you have created in the last few weeks and click and drag it into the folder
If you do not have any files on the floppy disk, you will have to create a file in wordpad and save it to A

If latter on you decide that you do not want the folder and you can no longer undo the move, you can go into windows explorer

Window’s Explorer

On the start menu go to programs

Go to windows explorer
The left side of the window lists the contents of the drives and folders on the hard drive and any other drives connected to the computer
The right side displays the folders and files in the selected folder or drive on the left.
Any folder with a plus sign in front of it contains more folders and files
There should be a plus sign beside the a drive
Click on the + sign beside the A drive.
The + sign will turn into a – sign and……
The My Junk folder should appear…. Along with any other folder that is on your A drive
Click it again and the + sign will reapear.
If you double click on the icon to the right of the + sign, everything on the A drive appears on the right.
Now double click on the C drive and notice that everything on the C drive will appear on the right.
If you want to look at what is on the C drive and then see what folders are on the A drive on the left while still looking at what is on the C drive on the right…..
Click on the + sign beside the Drive A: This allows you to move stuff from the C drive to the My stuff folder.
On the Left….Double click on the icon beside the + sign beside the A drive.
To look in the folder. Double click on the My junk folder on the right half of the screen.
To move the files out of the “My Junk” folder
Click on the file that you want to move on the right half of the screen.
While holding down the mouse button, drag the file over to the left and place it into the 3 ½ floppy drive. You will know that you are in the right place because the word 3 ½ floppy will be highlighted on the left.
You can move more than one file at a time by clicking on one file and holding down the shift key and selecting another file below or above the file. You can also use the control key to select folders that are not next to each other.
You have now moved everything out of the folder.

Now lets move the files back into the folder from here

Double click on the icon beside the + sign beside the A drive.
All of the files should appear on the right side of the window.
On the right side of the window select the files that you want to move by clicking on them.
Now click and drag the files to the left side of the screen. Only this time select the My Junk folder
Now double click on the My Junk folder on the left side of the window
The files that you moved into the Folder should appear on the right half of the screen.
You can also just click and drag the files that are on the right half of the screen and dragging them into the My Junk folder on the right half of the screen

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