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Working with files and folders
You can organize your files and programs to suit your preferences much like 
you would store information in a file cabinet. You can store these files in folders 
and copy, move, and delete the information just as you would reorganize and 
throw away information in a file cabinet.
Viewing drives
Drives are like file cabinets because they hold files and folders. A tablet PC may 
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To see the files and folders on a drive:
■Double-tap the drive icon. If you do not see the contents of a drive after 
you double-tap its icon, tap 
Show the contents of this drive.
Creating folders
Folders are much like the folders in a file cabinet. They can contain files and 
other folders.
Files are much like paper documents—letters, spreadsheets, and pictures—that 
you keep on your tablet PC. In fact, all information on a tablet PC is stored in 
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To create a folder:
1Ta p  Start, then tap My Computer on the Start menu.
2Double-tap the drive where you want to put the new folder. Typically, Local 
Disk (C:) is your hard drive and 3½ Floppy (A:) is your optional diskette 
drive. If you do not see the contents of the drive, tap 
Show the contents of 
this drive
.
3If you want to create a new folder inside an existing folder, double-tap the 
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To copy a file or folder to another folder:
1Locate the file or folder you want to copy. For more information, see 
“Viewing drives” on page 61 and “Searching for files” on page 68.
2Button-tap (press the pen button) the file or folder that you want to copy. 
A pop-up menu opens on the desktop.
3Ta p  Copy on the pop-up menu.
4Open the destination folder.
5With the pointer inside the destination folder, button-tap.
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Deleting files and folders
When you throw away paper files and folders, you take them from the file 
cabinet and put them in a trash can. Eventually the trash can is emptied.
In Windows, you throw away files and folders by first moving them to the 
Windows trash can, called the Recycle Bin, where they remain until you decide 
to empty the bin.
You can recover any file in the Recycle Bin as long as the bin has not been 
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To recover files or folders from the Recycle Bin:
1Double-tap the Recycle Bin icon. The Recycle Bin window opens and lists 
the files and folders you have thrown away since you last emptied it.
2Tap the files or folders that you want to restore. For instructions on how 
to select multiple files and folders, see “Keyboard shortcuts” on page 75.
3Ta p  File, then tap Restore. Windows returns the deleted files or folders to 
their original locations.
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Windows drives, folders, and files are organized in the same way as a real file 
cabinet in that they may have many levels (usually many more levels than a 
file cabinet, in fact). So you usually will have to search through levels of folders 
to find the file or folder that you need. This is called browsing.
To browse for a file:
1Ta p  Start, then tap My Computer. The My Computer window opens.
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Searching for files
If you are looking for a particular file or folder or a set of files or folders that 
have characteristics in common, but you do not remember where they are 
stored on your hard drive, you can use the Search utility to search by:
■Name or part of a name
■Creation date
■Modification date
■File type
■Text contained in the file
■Time period in which it was created or modified
You can also combine search criteria to refine searches.
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To find files and folders using the Search utility:
1Ta p  Start, then tap Search. The Search Results window opens. Tap All files 
and folders
.
2If you want to search by file or folder name, type in all or part of the file 
or folder name in the name box in the left pane of the window.
■If you type all of the name, Search will list all files and folders of that 
name.
■If you type part of the name, Search will list all of the file and folder 
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3Ta p  Search. When the search is completed, Windows lists the files and 
folders whose names contain the text that you searched for.
4Open a file, folder, or program by double-tapping the name in the list.
Using advanced search options
Search can find files meeting more criteria than file name. You can narrow your 
search by selecting the search options that you want. You can search by the:
■Date the file was created or modified.
■Size of the file.
■Type of...