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The "My Computer" program is a tool that lets you see everything that is stored on your computer. It is useful for finding, organizing and storing files on your computer. Files represent stored information that you have named. Think of "My Computer" as a filing cabinet for your computer. You can open the "My Computer" program by double clicking on the "My Computer" icon on the "desktop" as shown below.
The icons in the" My Computer" window represent all the drives,
folder and files on your computer. The following describes the
icons that you will use the most as a new computer user. |
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Drives are like filing cabinets for computer files. To see what is stored on a drive double click on its icon and a list of files and folders will appear. These files and folders will be arranged alphabetically. To open any of these files double click on them. | ||
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The A: drive icon opens files saved on a floppy disk. You may only open this drive when you have put a floppy disk into the drive slot of the computer. | ||
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The C: drive icon on most home computers represents the hard drive. This is the drive where all the programs that your computer runs are stored. You can also store files that you have created on this drive. If you do not think that the C: drive is your hard drive, look for a drive that has the same picture for an icon. | ||
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The D: drive icon represents the CD-ROM drive. Double clicking on this icon will show you all the files stored on a CD-ROM. | ||
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Folders help you organize your files by dividing up a drive into alphabetically organized sections. Double clicking on a folder will open it. Each folder can also hold other folders and files. |
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Files are information stored by a program. For example a file created in "WordPerfect" will be saved with the ending ".wpd." Double clicking on a file will open it. | ||
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