Technical information

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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If you plug a digital camcorder, cellphone, or
other gadget into your PC, the File Explorer
window will often sprout a new icon represent-
ing your gadget. If Windows neglects to ask
what you’d like to do with your newly plugged-
in gadget, right-click the icon; you see a list of
everything you can do with that item. No icon?
Then you need to install a driver for your
gadget.
Getting the Lowdown on
Folders and Libraries
A folder is a storage area on a drive, just like a real
folder in a file cabinet. Windows 8 divides your com-
puter’s hard drives into many folders to separate
your many projects. For example, you store all your
music in your My Music folder and your pictures in
your My Pictures folder.
A library, by contrast, is a super folder. Instead of
showing the contents of a single folder, it shows the
contents of several folders. For example, your Music
library shows the tunes living in your My Music folder,
as well as the tunes in your Public Music folder. (The
Public Music folder contains music available to every-
one who uses your PC.)
Windows 8 gives you four libraries for storing your
files and folders. For easy access, they live in the
Navigation Pane along the left side of every folder.
Figure 3-2 shows your libraries: Documents, Music,
Pictures, and Videos.
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