RE: creating a folder
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:59:35 +0100
I have found the easiest way to open details for a particular drive in Windows
Explorer is to use the Run dialog. Press Windows r, type the drive you want,
e,g. C: and press enter
Cheers
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Frankie. V.
Sent: 26 April 2007 12:30
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: creating a folder
Some more useful tidbits of information: The generic shortcut key for
getting into Windows Explorer is Windows Key Plus E. Once in My Computer if
you arrow down in the tree view and you land on the A (floppy) drive it
tries, unsuccessfully, to read it. To avoid this Tab once in the tree view
to get to the list view and when you are in the list view if you land on the
A drive Windows does not try to open it.
Regards,
Frankie V.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Yardbird
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:48 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: creating a folder
I would like to add some comments to this thread. And that is that someone
who isn't sure what the folders and structure are like on their computer
should not take the folder called My Documents as the "heart" of their hard
drive. I'm sure you can put everything you wish to within this folder by
creating a lot of subfolders, but I'm one Win XP user who simply ignores it
entirely.
Instead, I look at the folder called local drive c: as the heart of my
computer's filing system, just as I have since the earliest PCs I used
before Windows, under the operating system called DOS.
When I launch Windows Explorer, I immediately arrow to local drive c:
Actually, I have a hotkey, control shift x, that launches Windows Explorer
and lands me right on the c: folder. But that's because some nice person on
this list who also uses the c: drive as their home base explained how to
make the hotkey work this way. But if you land on My Documents, you just
arrow down, being careful to arrow fast over the 3 1/2 " "floppy) drive so
it doesn't stop you and ask you to insert a disk, and stop on Local Drive
C:.
And it is under this folder, which we used to call the "root directory" in
DOS days, that I have created my own folders for my various purposes,
including My Documents (in this position, located as c:\my documents\ and
other folders to hold various things. And it's here that Windows itself has
its folders for our programs' files, our Jaws folders, and of course the
Documents and Settings folder into which we go, deeply, if we want to
"explore our settings," as the expression in the Jaws convenience function
says.
Now, for whoever can understand this alternate housekeeping arrangement I've
described, this can be a very useful choice instead of using that My
documents feature, whose purpose I never heard or read any real explanation
for when I moved on to XP Home after using Win 98 for a long time.
And it works just beautifully for me. I have nothing in the area you land on
in the desktop or in Windows Explorer called My documents. It never made any
intuitive sense to me, this arrangement, so above is how I arrange things,
myself. Again, I want to stress that I'm not describing all this in order to
induce anyone to convert to doing things this way. I just want to explain
that, whatever Windows's purpose was in creating this My documents section
apart from the C drive, it's not the only way to organize your computer's
hard drive. That's all. I have no dog in any fight. There are a million ways
to get things done in Windows. Windows is a free country, and damned be
anyone who hates our freedoms. We will crush them. And so forth. :-)
Onward.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angie" <mawmaw23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject: RE: creating a folder
Hi there Judith,
You can go into My Documents, press alt F, for file menu, go down to new,
press enter, press enter again on folder and then you will hear edit, type
in the name for your new file.
Hope this helps!
Angie
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Judith Bron
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:47 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: creating a folder
On my windows XP computer creating a folder is obviously different than it
was on windows 98. Can someone give me instructions on how to create a
folder? Thanks, Judith
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