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Proposal, Old Junk, Back Me Up. Later, you’ll be able to round up

everything with a certain tag, all in a single window, even though they
physically reside in different folders.

You’ll encounter tags in plenty of other places in Windows—and in this
book, especially when it comes to searching for photos and music.

Note
Weirdly, you can’t add tags or ratings to .bmp, .png, .avi, or .mpg files.

Many of the boxes here offer autocompletion, meaning that Windows
proposes finishing a name or a text tidbit for you if it recognizes what
you’ve started to type.

Tip
You can tag a bunch of icons at once. Just highlight them all and then change the corresponding
detail in the Details pane once. This is a great trick for applying a tag or a star rating to a mass of
files quickly.

Click Save when you’re finished.

Properties

The Details pane shows some of the most important details about a file, but
if you really want to see the entire metadata dossier for an icon, open its
Properties dialog box (Figure 2-12) using one of these tactics:

Select it. From the Home tab of the Ribbon, click Properties.