Running the Windows Explorer program
• Right click on the Start icon. From the popup menu select Explore.
• This will display the Windows Explorer window. TIP: Do not confuse the Windows Explorer (which is generally used for exploring your computer, disks, folders and files) with the Internet Explorer (which is used for exploring the Internet and surfing the Web). They are two entirely separate programs with very different functions.
Views within the Windows Explorer
• You will see a number of commands displayed in a bar across the top of the Windows Explorer window.
• Click on the down arrow to the right of the Views command. You will see a popup menu, as illustrated.
• In the example illustrated, we are viewing the contents of the Windows Explorer in what is called Details view. In details view, illustrated below, you can see details such as the name of a file or folder, the date it was last modified, the type of file or folder as well as the size of the file.
• We will see later how to select a particular file or folder and view details of that file or folder. In the example shown below, we have selected the Notepad program file. As you can see this file is an ‘application’ file (i.e. a program file) and the file size on disk is 148 KB.
• The other common view that is used is one of the icon views.
• Click on the Medium Icons view.
• Your display will now change as illustrated.
• There are other views but normally you will use Details or one of the Icon views. TIP: If you have difficulty seeing the icons you can use the Large or Extra large icon views.
• Before continuing set the View type to Details.
Using the Windows Explorer scroll bar
• When you first start the Windows Explorer the screen will look something like this. In the example shown, the Start Menu folder is selected by default.
• Use the vertical Scroll Bar to scroll up to see the contents at the top of the left side of the window. You will see something like this.
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