Using Windows Explorer Windows explorer is different from Internet Explorer It is a Windows program designed to let you explore your hard drive and manage your folders

Using Windows Explorer Your can start Windows explorer in a number of ways: You can go to START and ALL PROGRAMS and if you are lucky you will see Windows Explorer as one of your programs. I wasn’t very lucky as you can see.

Using Windows Explorer So I had to go to START and RUN

Using Windows Explorer Type Explorer into the blank

Using Windows Explorer Here’s what you will see On the left pane are your various storage drives On the right is the contents of the drive or folder currently highlighted Along the top are menu items which let you manage your files in various ways

Using Windows Explorer Folders are always shown first and after that any individual files Scroll down to see them

Using Windows Explorer Useful Tip: If you have any picture files saved, you can see a thumbnail of the file by going to the View menu item Choose Thumbnails You can quickly see all pictures in that folder

Using Windows Explorer Useful Tip: Explorer will allow you to copy, move or delete files To delete a file click on it once, to select it and then right click it. Choose the delete option The file will be deleted. BE CAREFUL ABOUT THIS ONE!!!

Using Windows Explorer To copy a file: Right click it and choose copy A copy was then invisibly placed on a section of memory called the clipboard

Using Windows Explorer Click on another folder of your choice on the left Move to the right hand side and right click Choose Paste and the file will be copied into the new folder

Using Windows Explorer To move a folder instead of copying you right click and choose Cut

Using Windows Explorer Then go to your new folder as you did before Right click in the right pane and choose Paste The file will be cut from the first folder and pasted in to the second BE CAREFUL WITH ALL OF THESE PROCEDURES. DO NOT OVERWRITE OR DELETE FILES UNLESS YOU KNOW THEY WIL DO NO HARM

Using Windows Explorer You can also use Explorer to see what is on shared folders on other computers Scroll down on the left hand side to until you see My Network Places and double click it

Using Windows Explorer Now click on Entire Network to see all computers on your network

Using Windows Explorer Choose Microsoft Windows Networks (we have no other kind) Windows will search for all networks connected to this computer. In this case there was only one – the one labeled workgroup

Using Windows Explorer In my workgroup there were only three computers Danny, Elloct…. And Newfie Laptop

Using Windows Explorer Double click the computer and you will see any folders on that computer which are shared In this case I have three If I double click any of these I will see their contents and depending on how it was shared, I may be allowed to cut paste delete or otherwise modify I may also have been restricted to just reading the files without modifying them or I may be asked for a password to see what is in the folder.

DeepFreeze and Saving You will know when DeepFreeze is active on your machine because of a small icon in the lower right hand corner. If it has a X across it or a flashing X then it is not active

When DeepFreeze is active, every time it reboots, it will return your computer to the state it was when the administrator “froze” it in time. To install any new program you must first “thaw” the machine and you have to be the administrator to do this. Pressing the reset button will force a reboot and clear the machine. DeepFreeze and Saving

A special part of the hard drive has been kept separate and will be untouched by DeepFreeze. It is designated as Drive letter T: Thawspace It is approximately 1GB when empty however it should not be used as a place to save file since it is accessible by everyone and is periodically erased by the administrator

DeepFreeze and Saving A better place to save will be your network folder designated (on my computer) maunderg on lpmsite/staff G: