Gateway ID49C Gateway Notebook User's Guide - Canada/French - Page 16
Creating folders, Copying and moving files and folders, Using Windows
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CHAPTER 2: Using Windows 2 Double-click the drive icon. Creating folders Folders are much like the folders in a file cabinet. They can contain files and other folders. Files are much like paper documents-letters, spreadsheets, and pictures-that you keep on your notebook. In fact, all information on a notebook is stored in files. Folders Files To create a folder: Shortcut Click File Á New Á Folder Á type name 1 Click (Start), then click Computer on the Start menu. 2 Double-click the drive where you want to put the new folder. Typically, Local Disk (C:) is your hard drive. 3 If you want to create a new folder inside an existing folder, double-click the existing folder. 4 Click Organize, then click New Folder. The new folder is created. 5 Type a name for the folder, then press ENTER. The new folder name appears by the folder icon. For information about renaming folders, see "Shortcuts" on page 19. Copying and moving files and folders Important The clipboard stores whatever you cut or copy until you cut or copy again. Then the clipboard contains the new information only. Therefore, you can paste copies of a file or folder into more than one place, but as soon as you copy or cut a different file or folder, the original file or folder is deleted from the clipboard. The skills you need to copy and move files are called copying, cutting, and pasting. When you copy and paste a file or folder, you place a copy of the file or folder on the Windows clipboard, which temporarily stores it. Then, when you decide what folder you want the copy to go in (the destination folder), you paste it there. When you cut and paste a file or folder, you remove the file or folder from its original location and place the file or folder on the Windows clipboard. When you decide where you want the file or folder to go, you paste it there. 10