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Folders

Your computer’s hard drive uses a system of folders to help organise the tens of thousands
of files on it. A folder is not a file itself, but contains files such as word-processing
documents, videos and software. On the computer’s desktop, it’s represented by an icon
that looks like a familiar tabbed folder used to organised paperwork. Folder reduce clutter
on your computer and help and you find the files you need.

Organising with Folders

Without folders, a computer’s hard drive would have an impossibly-long list of files, making
it very hard to find one in particular. It would be as if all your photos, music files,
spreadsheets and programs were dumped into one big file. Folder relieves this chaos by

organising files.
For example, programs go into the “Program files” folder, and you find photo files in the ‘My
Pictures’ folder. You don’t see the files inside the folder until you open it.

File Explorer in Windows 10 is a window that lets you explore and manage the files and
folders in your computer and OneDrive account. After opening a library folder in Windows
10, for example , its contents appear in a File Explorer window.

To start File Explorer in Windows 10, click the “File Explorer” app within the “Windows
System” folder in the “All apps“ listing of the Start menu or Start screen.
You can also open it from the Desktop by clicking the “File Explorer” button in the Taskbar at
the bottom of the desktop. The File Explorer in Windows 10 contains a set of tab at the top
of the window that let you to perform activities on the files and folders selected in the main

File Explorer window.

The Parts of File Explorer

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