Angie, Glad you foun that stuff interesting. It can't hurt to go to the local drive c: folder and explore what's beneath it, for one thing, which will reveal some useful knowledge about where a lot of critical folders are. And it will be easy to experiment and just creat a folder and maybe a couple of subfolders under it to see how it would feel to set up housekeeping here instead of within My Documents apart from the C: drive. Just don't go permanently moving folders and files down there until you're sure you are comfortable with the geography, so to put it. From: "Angie" <mawmaw23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:32 AM Subject: RE: creating a folder Wow! Thanks for the information. Angie -----Original Message----- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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