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CHAPTER 2: Using Windows XP www.gateway.com
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Browsing for files and folders
Help and Support
For more information about browsing
for files and folders, click Start, then
click Help and Support. Type the
keyword
files and folders
in the
Search box, then click the arrow.
A file or folder that you need is rarely right on top of your Windows desktop. It
is usually on a drive inside a folder that may be inside yet another folder, and so on.
Windows drives, folders, and files are organized in the same way as a real file
cabinet in that they may have many levels (usually many more levels than a file
cabinet, in fact). So you usually will have to search through levels of folders to
find the file or folder that you need. This is called
browsing .
To browse for a file:
1
Click Start , then click M
Y
C
OMPUTER
. The My Computer window opens.
2
Double-click the drive or folder that you think contains the file or folder that
you want to find. If you do not see the contents of a folder, click
Show the
contents of this drive or Show the contents of this folder .
3
Continue double-clicking folders and their subfolders until you find the file
or folder you want.