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Chapter 3. Organizing &

Finding Your Files

Every disk, folder, file, application, printer, and networked computer is
represented on your screen by an icon. To avoid spraying your screen with
thousands of overlapping icons seething like snakes in a pit, Windows

organizes icons into folders, puts those folders into other folders, and so on.
This folder-in-a-folder-in-a-folder scheme works beautifully at reducing

screen clutter, but it means you’ve got some hunting to do whenever you
want to open a particular icon.

Helping you find, navigate, and manage your files, folders, and disks with

less stress and greater speed is one of the primary design goals of Windows
—and of this chapter. The following pages cover Windows 10’s Search
function, plus icon-management life skills like selecting them, renaming
them, moving them, copying them, making shortcuts of them, assigning

them to keystrokes, deleting them, and burning them to CD or DVD.

The Power of Search

Every computer offers a way to find and open files and programs, saving
you a lot of hunting and burrowing through your folders.

And in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, the Search feature has been
thoroughly revamped, cleaned up, and common-sensified.

The most important message is this: Search is not just for finding a file. You

should also think of it for these tasks:

Opening apps. Search is by far the fastest way to open a program.

You should use it all the time. The whole thing happens very
quickly, and you never have to take your hands off the keyboard.
That is, you might hit (to select the search box), type calc (to