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A good time to use this trick is when you highlight an icon by accident. The Ctrl key trick is especially handy if you want to select almost all the icons in a window. As you know, you can drag icons from one folder to another, from one drive to another, from a drive to a folder on another drive, and so on. Dragging to another folder on the same disk moves the folder or file. Dragging from one disk to another copies the folder or file. Pressing the Ctrl key while dragging to another folder on the same disk copies the icon.
Pressing Shift while dragging from one disk to another moves the folder or file without leaving a copy behind. You can move or copy icons by dragging them either into an open window or directly onto a disk or folder icon. Press Esc to cancel a dragging operation at any time. Probably not. Fortunately, you never have to. One of the most important tricks you can learn is to use the right mouse button as you drag. When you release the button, the menu shown in Figure appears, so that you can either copy or move the icons.
See Section 4. For example, to copy an icon into a certain folder, click the Local Disk C: icon to see its list of folders. If the destination is a folder within that folder, expand its parent folder as necessary. In the left pane, click the icon of the disk or folder that contains the icon you want to manipulate.
Locate the icon you want to move in the right pane, and drag it to the appropriate folder in the left pane see Figure You actually see your arrow cursor pushing the icons into the new location. But you also pay a price for this satisfying illusion. The routine goes like this:. Highlight the icon or icons you want to move or copy.
You can use any of the tricks described on Section 4. Right-click one of the icons. Choose Cut or Copy from the shortcut menu.
Right-click the window, folder icon, or disk icon where you want to put the icons. Choose Paste from the shortcut menu. This command offers a quick way to copy and move highlighted icons to popular destinations. The Recycle Bin is your desktop trash basket. Your files stay here until you empty the Recycle Bin—or until you rescue them by dragging them out again. You can put unwanted files and folders into the Recycle Bin from any folder window, from within Windows Explorer, or even from inside the Open File dialog box of many Windows applications see Chapter 5.
If you change your mind about sending something to the software graveyard, open the Recycle Bin by double-clicking it. A window like the one in Figure opens.
Restored means returned to the folder from whence it came—wherever it was on your hard drive when deleted.
If you restore an icon whose original folder has been deleted in the meantime, Windows XP even recreates that folder to hold the restored file. By dragging them out of the Recycle Bin window, you can drop them into any folder you like.
In the Recycle Bin window, highlight only the icons you want to eliminate, and then press the Delete key. When the Recycle Bin accumulates so much stuff that it occupies a significant percentage of your hard drive space, Windows empties it automatically, as described in the next section. To avoid the hassle of emptying the Recycle Bin on a one-shot basis, press the Shift key while you delete a file. Doing so—and then clicking Yes in the confirmation box—deletes the file permanently, skipping its layover in the Recycle Bin.
The Shift-key trick works for every method of deleting a file: pressing the Delete key, choosing Delete from the shortcut menu, and so on. A shortcut is a link to a file, folder, disk, or program see Figure A shortcut takes up almost no disk space. When you double-click the shortcut icon, the original folder, disk, program, or document opens.
You can also set up a keystroke for a shortcut icon, so that you can open any program or document just by pressing a certain key combination. Shortcuts provide quick access to the items you use most often. And because you can make as many shortcuts of a file as you want, and put them anywhere on your PC, you can effectively keep an important program or document in more than one folder.
Just create a shortcut of each to leave on the desktop in plain sight, or drag their icons onto the Start button or the Quick Launch toolbar.
The shortcut menu has nothing to do with shortcut icons. To create a shortcut, right-drag an icon from its current location Windows Explorer, a folder window, or even the Search window described on Section 2.
When you release the mouse button, choose Create Shortcut s Here from the menu that appears. A shortcut appears instantly. You can delete a shortcut in the same fashion as any other icon, as described in the Recycle Bin discussion earlier in this chapter. Why on earth would I want to click Yes? You now have a great feature for making backups, emailing people, or exchanging files with a Macintosh the resulting CDs are cross-platform.
This entire section pertains to copying everyday computer files onto a CD. Use Windows Media Player instead. See Section 6. Windows offers to open a special CD-burning window, which will be the temporary waiting room for files that you want to copy to the CD Figure , top left.
Now tell Windows which files and folders you want copied onto it, using one of these three methods:. Scurry about your hard drive, locating the files and folders you want on the CD.
Highlight the files and folders you want burned onto the CD. Explore your hard drive. In any case, Windows now copies the files and folders into a temporary, invisible holding-tank folder.
In other words, you need plenty of disk space before you begin burning a CD, at least double the size of the CD files themselves. Remember that a standard CD can hold only about MB of files. Then inspect the Details box in the task pane to confirm that the Total File Size is within the legal limit.
Hard-core Windows power users, of course, sneer at all this. Still, if you use your burner primarily for quick backups, long-term storage, or transferring big files to other computers, a little bit of free software goes a long way. Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Chapter 4. Organizing Your Stuff. Note Before Windows took over the universe, folders were called directories , and folders inside them were called subdirectories.
Figure The My Computer window, shown here on a corporate-network PC, is the starting point for any folder-digging you want to do. It shows the disk drives of your PC. Top: The C: drive and the Program Files folder start out looking empty.
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