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Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a
little bit about the "Computer" utility

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available in Windows 7 and how you can
use it to navigate amongst your folders

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and files and to copy and move and
rename and delete files and folders.

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There are a lot of different ways you
can bring it up: You can click on the

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Start menu and choose computer. From
there you might have a desktop icon. My

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favorite way of bringing it up is using
the keyboard shortcut: You hold down the

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"Windows" key which is the key with the
Microsoft Windows' logo on it between the

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"Control" and "Alt" keys in the lower
left-hand corner of your keyboard. And

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with the Windows key held down, hit the "e" key. Windows^e

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will bring up Computer, and when you
first bring it up you're able to see

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your different drives. A drive is going
to be represented by a capital letter,

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and different drives might stand for
different things; the hard disk drives

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here stand for a part of the space on a hard
disk that at this point is currently

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located in the computer that you're
working with at the moment. You will most

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typically have a c: drive -- again
representing part or possibly all of the

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storage space on the hard disk located
in your computer. I happen also to have a

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different drive as part of my hard disk
drive -- my f: drive. You probably aren't

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going to be seeing a: or b: drives
nowadays; both the letters "a" and "b" were

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reserved for use for floppy disk drives. Before there were hard disk drives,

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non-volatile storage media were floppy
disk drives or floppy disks and

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computers at one point actually often
had two separate floppy disk drives: You'd

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have your operating system fit on a
single floppy disk back when we were

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using Microsoft DOS and you would have a
second disk drive -- your b: drive -- for your

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programs and for your data. A little bit
further down here you see that I've got

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a d: drive that's a removable storage
medium.

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The letters after c: are often used for
things like DVD drives, CD drives, thumb

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drives, and the like. Down in this lower
section you see I've got a number of

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different network locations. These are
storage space that are somewhere on the

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network -- where they are is irrelevant;
they're just not on our computer. Right

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now you can see that the network
locations have a cable as part of their

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icon I'm going to open up my z: drive. By
double clicking on it and I can see now

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that I'm in the root directory of my z:
drive. The root directory of the drive is

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the very very top of the drive. Within
here I see that I have quite a number

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of folders, and then I have the files
underneath. I'm going to open up my file

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"practice folder." Suppose I wanted to go
back to where I just came from. I could

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click on the left arrow to revisit the
place that I just came back from. I would

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click on the right arrow just as you would
in Internet Explorer. Nothing surprising

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there. We also, however, have available
what Microsoft calls "breadcrumbs," so if I

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wish to click to just go back to the z:
drive, I could click on this. I could

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click on the "Computer" breadcrumb if I
wanted to go all the way back up to the

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top. Suppose I wanted to go into a
different folder within the z: drive. If I

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click on the down arrow just to the
right of the z: drive's breadcrumb, I can

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see all of the folders that are listed
within the z: drive and I could click on

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one that I chose to go into. I'm going to
click on my back arrow again to return

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to my "file practice" folder. Now, I have a
different video that you can look at

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that discusses changing views within
Computer. I'm going to change to the

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Details view,

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and in this folder you can see that I
have quite a number of different items.

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In here I've got 19 items altogether.
19 is perfectly manageable, but suppose

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instead of having 19 items in here I had
nineteen hundred items. That would be

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very difficult to try to maneuver around,
to try to find what you're interested in.

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If you start getting too many items in
a folder to be able to find what you're

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interested in quickly and easily, you
might wish to create a subfolder, and

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there are a variety of different ways you
can do that. In fact, there are quite a

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number of different ways you can perform
most of the tasks I'm going to be

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discussing today. I will show you a few
different ways; if you know of other ways

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and they do the job, more power to you to
you! Use whatever way you find easiest. So

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one way you can create a new folder is
to right-click a blank part of this pane

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and choose "New Folder. " You'll be given
the option to give the folder a name.

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Maybe I'd like to move all my documents
my Word documents in here, so I'll call

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it "Docs" and I'll click out here, then I
stop and reconsider: "Docs" might not be

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the best name. You want a name that is
reasonably short, but you want a name

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that is descriptive enough. "Docs" might
be short for "documents"; it might also be

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short for "doctors," and depending on the
context which is intended might be

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obvious or it might not be. I'd like to
make this a little bit clearer, so I'm

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going to right click on "Docs" and choose
"Rename." Now I can name it with the more

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descriptive "Documents." I'd like to move
all of my documents into this new folder;

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they're scattered around here. One thing
I could do would be to sort everything.

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I'm going to be sorting by type and I
can do this in the Details view, and then

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I wish to select the items that I would
like to copy or to move into my

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Documents folder. If you wish just to
move one individual item, you can just

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click on it to select it. If you wish to
select multiple items that are all right

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next to each other, you can click on the first item hold, the

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"Shift" key down, and while the "Shift" key
is held down, click on the last item.

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Clicking and then shift^clicking will
select everything from the first item to

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the last item and everything in between.
Suppose I wanted all of these items

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except for some reason I'd like to have
my English notes stay where it is. I'd

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like all the other documents to be moved
into the "Documents" folder, but the English

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notes I'd like to keep where they are. If
that's the case, I can hold the "Control" (ctrl) key

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down and with the "Control" key held down,
I can click on "English notes."

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Control^clicking will toggle the item you're
control^clicking on between being

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selected and not selected, and keep
everything else in the same state it had

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been. So I've re-selected my "English notes." Now I would like to move these all of

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these documents into my "Documents" folder. There are quite a number of different

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ways that I could move them. One thing I
could do is I could simply drag these

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items and drop them onto the "Documents"
folder, and that would move them. I'm not

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going to do that, though. Another way is, I
could right-drag them -- hold the right

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mouse button down and drag them on top of the "Documents" folder, and I'm given a

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menu. I could choose at this point to
move them; that's the default -- you can see

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"Move Here" is bolded. That means that if I
had just regular dragged -- held the left

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mouse button down and dragged and
dropped onto the "Documents" folder -- the

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items would have been moved. I could also
choose to copy these items or to create

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shortcuts within the "Documents" folder
pointing to these items. I'm going to

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cancel this. All of these drag and drop
and right-drag and drop methods work

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beautifully if you see both what it is
you'd like to copy or move and where

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you'd like to copy or move it to. Now you
can certainly use the left pane's "Folders"

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pane to be able to display the folder
that you're interested in moving to, but

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there's another method of moving things
or copying things from one random

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location to another random location you
don't have to have

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with visible at the same time; that is to
cut and paste, and there are a variety of

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different ways that you can cut the
items. One way is to right-click on the

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selected items and choose "Cut." When you
choose "Cut," the items are grayed out a

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little bit. Then navigate to wherever
you'd like to have the items placed --

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where you'd like to have them "pasted," to
use the technical term. So I've opened up

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my "Documents" folder by double clicking
on it. I'll right-click on an empty part

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of this pane and I'll choose "Paste". You
can see the documents are now in my

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"Documents" folder. If I go up to my "File
practice" folder, they're no longer

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available in here, so you can cut and
paste to move things. If you wish to copy

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items, the process is almost identical. Maybe I want a copy of "grades 1" and "grades 3."

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I clicked on "grades 1," control-clicked on
"grades 3." I can right-click on "grades 3"

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now, but now instead of choosing "cut" to
cut and paste to move the item, I'll

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choose "copy." Copy and paste will make a
copy of these two items and place them

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wherever I choose choose to paste them.

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If you don't like all this right-clicking , there's another thing you can

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use, if you have access to your menu bar. Your menu bar might be hidden; if you

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don't see this menu bar in Computer, you
can go to "Organize," "Layout" and click on

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"Menu Bar." That will display -- this is a
toggle -- If I were to click on "Menu Bar"

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now, this menu bar would actually be
hidden. So if you do

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see your menu bar, you can go to the "File"
menu and choose "new," and "Folder." This is a

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different way of creating a folder, and
maybe I'd like to put all of my

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spreadsheets into this new folder, so I
name this new folder "spreadsheets." I'm

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going to click and shift-click to select the 
"grades 1" through "grades 6"

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spreadsheets. Go up to the "Edit" menu item and I can choose now to cut or to copy

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if I want to cut and paste or copy and
paste to move or copy. I'm going to move

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them, so I'll just cut. I'll go into
"spreadsheets," edit, paste. Now you may have

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noticed on this edit menu that next to
cut and next to copy we've got some

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couple of strange sequences of
characters ctrl+X and ctrl+C. What are

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they about? Well, they're keyboard shortcuts. If you wish to cut, what this menu is

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saying with this is that you can
select your items by holding the ctrl key down, and

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while the ctrl key is held, down hit
and release the X key. Control^X on the

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keyboard does the exact same thing as
going up to the Edit menu and choosing

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"Cut." Similarly, control^C is the equivalent of edit-->copy. At the

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moment, the next slide option (paste)
is grayed out, but you could see that

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paste has ctrl+v as its keyboard
shortcut. Why control V? There are a

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couple of reasons. One is that ctrl+p
was already taken: Ctrl+p is the

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keyboard shortcut for if you want to print
something, but the other reason has to do with the

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keyboard layout. If you cut an item or if
you copy an item, the next logical thing

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you're going to be doing is moving to a
particular location and pasting it. so if

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you're doing a lot with keyboard
shortcuts, your hand has just gone to

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ctrl+x or ctrl+c, and your finger
might still be on the X or the C key. If

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you take a look at your keyboard, V is
right next to the X and C; It goes XCV,

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so V was just chosen because it's
right near the X and the C. It's a

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little bit more efficient.

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So today we've
talked about how to open and use

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Computer, we saw how you can navigate
within Computer, how

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you can create folders, why you'd want to
create folders, how you can select

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specific items to delete, to rename, to
copy and paste and cut and paste.

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Actually I don't think I talked about
delete. I apologize. To delete an item,

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simply click on it, hit the Delete key,
and if it asks do you want to delete

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this, yes you do. So we've talked about
navigating, copying and moving files and

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folders. We've talked about the
significance of the different drive

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letters, and now you should be able to
maneuver around Computer without any

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difficulty. 
Thank you