Windows Explorer

By Joshua Erdman
Digital Foundation, inc.

In the Directories Article I explained how to make directories and how they work. Now you need to know how to move your files into these directories.

To move files (file management) use the explorer program or the ?My Computer? icon (usually located at the top left of the screen). To run explorer click the ?Start? button, click programs, then click the Windows Explorer icon. To run the ?My Computer? file manager double click the ?My Computer? icon at the top left of your screen. With either of these two programs you can move, copy, and delete files. Moving files is done by dragging them with the left mouse button and dropping them where you want them. Deleting files is done by selecting the file you want to delete and tapping the delete key on the keyboard.

Copying files is just like moving files but instead of dragging with the left mouse button you use the right mouse button, after you drop the files where you want them, a pop up menu will appear. Then select copy.

So now you have all your files ( say 1,000 of them) in one directory and very unorganized. You can grab each file one at a time, and drop them in each corresponding directory. But you would have to do this 1,000 times! Instead hold down the CTRL key and select each file that would belong in one directory, then drag the group of files and drop them into the directory .

If all of the files are next to each other, you can use the SHIFT key to highlight them. Just click the first file in the list, then hold the SHIFT key down while you click the last file; it will select those two files and all the files in between. Then you can drag that group and drop it into the directory.

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