User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Checking Out Your Gateway Notebook
- Getting Started
- Getting Help
- Windows Basics
- Using the Internet
- Using Multimedia
- Sending and Receiving Faxes
- Managing Power
- Travel Tips
- Customizing Your Notebook
- Upgrading Your Notebook
- Networking Your Notebook
- Moving from Your Old Computer
- Maintaining Your Notebook
- Restoring Software
- Troubleshooting
- Safety, Regulatory, and Legal Information
- Index
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Working with files and folders
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Working with files and folders
You can organize your files and programs to suit your preferences much like
you would store information in a file cabinet. You can store these files in
folders and copy, move, and delete the information just as you would
reorganize and throw away information in a file cabinet.
Viewing drives
Drives are like file cabinets because they hold files and folders. A computer
almost always has more than one drive. Each drive has a letter, usually Local
Disk (C:) for the hard drive and 3½ Floppy (A:) for the diskette drive. You may
also have more drives such as a CD/DVD drive.
To view the drives on your computer:
■ Click Start, then select My Computer from the Start menu.
To see the files and folders on a drive:
■ Double-click the drive icon. If you do not see the contents of a drive after
you double-click its icon, click
Show the contents of this drive.
Drives