Technical information

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highlighted items whenever you — or an inadvertent
brush of your shirt sleeve — press the Delete key.
Be extra sure that you know what you’re doing
when deleting any file that has pictures of little
gears in its icon. These files are usually sensitive
hidden files, and the computer wants you to
leave them alone.
Icons with little arrows in their corner (like the
one in the margin) are shortcuts — push buttons
that merely load files. Deleting shortcuts deletes
only a button that loads a file or program. The file
or program itself remains undamaged and still
lives inside your computer.
Copying or Moving
Files and Folders
To copy or move files to different folders on your
hard drive, it’s sometimes easiest to use your mouse
to drag them there. For example, here’s how to move
a file to a different folder on your desktop. In this
case, I’m moving the Traveler file from the House
folder to the Morocco folder.
1. Align the two windows next to each other.
2. Aim the mouse pointer at the file or folder you
want to move.
In this case, point at the Traveler file.
3. While holding down the right mouse button,
move the mouse until it points at the destina-
tion folder.
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