Datasheet

Opening Icons
You can open some icons by clicking them once. But most of the time, you’ll
need to double-click an icon to open it. Remember that double-click means to
point to the icon and then tap the left mouse button twice, as quickly as you
can. If you pause too long between the clicks, the icon won’t open.
Shrinking a Big Thing Back to Its Icon
Exactly what does open depends on what the icon represents. If you open
an icon by accident, or don’t know what to do with the thing that opens,
just close it. Closing an item shrinks it to its original icon. To close, click the
Close button (shown at left) in the upper-right corner of whatever it is you
want to close. Or, if your hands happen to be on the keyboard, you can press
Alt+F4.
Organizing Icons
If you’ve already been using icons for a long time, and in fact they’re getting
pretty messy, you can easily whip them into alphabetical order. Just right-
click some empty space between any icons (but not on any icon). From the
shortcut menu that appears (shown at left), choose Arrange Icons By ➪ Name
(see Figure 1-13). The icons will be neatly arranged into (roughly) alphabetical
order.
Figure 1-13: Right-click an empty spot and choose Arrange
Icons By ➪ Name.
For example, certain built-in Windows XP icons stick to the upper-left corner of
your screen, so that they’re always in the same place. The built-in icons have
names such as My Computer, Recycle Bin, My Network Places, and Internet
Explorer. Any icons other than built-in ones will be alphabetized starting after
the last built-in icon.
Right-click some empty space between icons;
then choose Arrange Icons By > Name
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