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IT1102

Computer
Hardware

Week 2
Organizing and managing files and folders
Desktop
• The desktop is the main screen area that user
see after turn on computer and log on to
Windows
• user can store files and folders or short cuts in
it , and arrange them as user want
Taskbar
• Taskbar sits at the bottom of your screen
• It shows user which programs are running
• It allows user to switch between running
programs
• User can also use Alt + Tab to switch between
running programs
Windows Explorer
• Windows Explorer in early Windows versions
• File Explorer in Windows 8
• File Explorer is a file manager application
allows you to open, access, and rearrange
your files and folders.
• It provides a graphical user interface for
accessing the file systems.
• Windows key + E
1. Navigation pane
– Hierarchically expand the computer to browse
folders and subfolders.
2. Back and Forward buttons
– Navigate to other folders or libraries user have
already visited
3. Toolbar
– command icons to perform common tasks, such
as changing the appearance of your files and
folders, burning files to a CD, or starting a digital
picture slide show. The toolbar's buttons change
to show only the tasks that are relevant.
4. Address bar
– Show the current folder path
– To navigate to a different folder or library
5. View button
– Use to change how the files in the file list are
organized. (order or group)
6. Preview button
– show or hide the selected item (e-mail message, text
file, or picture.)
7. Search box
– To search for an item by typing the name
File
• A file is an item that contains information
• Text, images, video or music
• Graphically represented by an icon
File Extension
• Two, three or four characters followed by period
• Helps identify the type of file
• Common file type in Windows
– .AVI Multimedia Audio/Video
– .BAT PC batch file
– .BMP Windows BitMap
– .DOC Microsoft Word for Windows/Word97
– .EXE PC Application
– .GIF Graphics Interchange Format
– .JAVA Java files
Organizing files
• Why?
– Easy to store
– Easy to find
Folder
• Folder is a container used to store files
Folder
• Folders can also store other folders
• folder within a folder is called a subfolder
• Folders are arranged in hierarchal structure
File or folder path
• Specifies a unique location in a file system.
Creating new file or folder
• Right-click a blank area on the desktop or in
the folder window, point to New, and then
click Folder of require file type .
• Type a name for the new folder of file, and
then press Enter.
File and folder operations
• Copy and past
• Cut and pats
• Delete
• Rename

• Drag and drop


Short cuts
• A shortcut is a link to an item (such as a file, folder, or
app) on your PC.
• user can easily access the item that the shortcut links
to.
• Shortcuts can be distinguished from the original file by
the arrow that appears over-layed on the icon
• Adding short cuts to desktop
– Right-click the item
– click Send to
– then click Desktop (create shortcut).
– The shortcut icon appears on your desktop.
Recycle Bin
• Temporary storage to store the deleting files from
the file manager (Windows explorer)
• When user deleting files they are automatically
moving to Recycle Bin, and do not delete
permanently from the storage.
• Items in the Recycle Bin remain there until
permanently deleted by user
• User can bypass Recycle Bin by using Shift + Del
Recycle Bin
• Windows allocates one Recycle Bin for each
partition or hard disk
• By default Windows allocates 10% for each
Recycle Bin in each partition
Default libraries
• Documents library.
– To organize and arrange word-processing documents,
spreadsheets, presentations, and other text-related files.
– By default, files that you move, copy, or save to the
Documents library are stored in the My Documents folder.
• Pictures library.
– To organize and arrange your pictures, get them from
camera, scanner, or in e-mail.
– By default, files that you move, copy, or save to the
Pictures library are stored in the My Pictures folder.
Default libraries
• Music library.
– To organize and arrange your music.
– By default, files that you move, copy, or save to
the Music library are stored in the My Music
folder.
• Videos library.
– To organize and arrange videos, such as clips from
digital camera or camcorder, or video files that
download from the Internet.

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