Medion Akoya LS, Manual

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Drives are organized by Hard Disk Drives, Devices with Removable Storage,
and Network Drives.
Hard Disk Drives are your Notebook’s main storage. The My Documents
folder is saved on your main hard disk drive, usually labeled (C:).
Devices with Removable Storage can include floppy disk drives, CD drives,
and DVD drives, as well as card reader drives, pen drives, or even a digital
camera that is connected to your Notebook!
Network Drives are hard drives on other computers that you can access
through a network, when applicable.
File Names
Each file has its own file name , such as “Tanya_walking.jpg” or
“My_favorite_song.mp3”. The last three characters of the file name, the ones
after the period, are the
file extension . These tell your Notebook what type of
file it is, and what program to use to open the file. For example, the
extension
.mp3 tells your Notebook that My_favorite_song is a music file, and
that it should be opened with a program that plays music.
You can change the program that is used to open files labeled with a
particular extension. For example, you can set all .mp3 files to be opened
with MUSICMATCH instead of Windows Media
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Player, or vice versa.
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Click on Start , then Control Panel .
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Switch to Classic View if you are not already in it.
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Double-click Folder Options .
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Click on the File Types tab.
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Scroll down to the file type you want to change and left-click on it to
select it.
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Click Change and select a program from the list that appears. We
recommend that you choose only programs from the Recommended
Programs list.
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Click OK , then Close .
If the Change button is dim and clicking on it doesn’t do anything, then you
can not change the program associated with that file type.
If you change your mind later, you can return to the File Types tab, select the
file type, and click Restore to have the file type opened by the default program.