Chapter 3. Searching & Organizing Your Files
Every disk, folder, file, application, printer, and networked
computer is represented on your screen by an icon. To avoid spraying
your screen with thousands of overlapping icons seething like snakes in
a pit, Windows organizes icons into folders, puts those folders into
other folders, and so on. This
folder-in-a-folder-in-a-folder scheme works beautifully at reducing
screen clutter, but it means that you’ve got some hunting to do whenever
you want to open a particular icon.
Helping you find, navigate, and manage your files, folders, and
disks with less stress and greater speed was one of the primary design
goals of Windows 7—and of this chapter. The following pages cover
Search, plus icon-management life skills like selecting
them, renaming them, moving them, copying them, making shortcuts of
them, assigning them to keystrokes, deleting them, and burning them to
CD or DVD.
Tip
To create a new folder to hold your icons, right-click where you
want the folder to appear (on the desktop or in any desktop window
except Computer), and choose New→Folder from the shortcut menu. The
new folder appears with its temporary “New Folder” name highlighted.
Type a new name for the folder and then press Enter.
Meet Windows Search
All Versions
Every computer offers a way to find files. And every system offers several different ways to open them. But Search combines these two functions in a way that’s so fast, so efficient, and so spectacular, it reduces much ...