Page 210 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

In general, the healthiest PC is one whose Windows folder has

been left alone.

Your Personal Folder

Everything that makes your Windows experience your own sits inside the
Local Disk (C:) > Users > [your name] folder. This is your personal folder,

where Windows stores your preferences, documents, email, pictures, music,
web favorites, cookies (described on “Cookie options”), and so on.

Ordinarily, you open this folder using a far more direct method: Open the

menu, select the round photo button representing your account (leftmost
column), and choose “Personal folder.”

Tip

Actually, it would make a lot of sense for you to install your personal folder’s icon in the “Quick
access” list at the left side of every Explorer window. Drag its icon directly into the list.

Your personal folder comes prestocked with folders like these:

3D Objects. This folder contains any 3D models you build using
Windows 10’s creative apps, like Paint 3D and Mixed Reality
Viewer. (You can’t delete this folder manually. That job requires a

Registry hack; you can find instructions for it using Google.)

Contacts. An address-book program called Windows Contacts

came with Windows Vista, but Microsoft gave it a pink slip for
Windows 7. All that’s left now is this folder, where it used to stash
the information about your social circle. (Some other companies’

address-book programs can use this folder, too.)

Desktop. When you drag an icon out of a folder or disk window

and onto your desktop, it may appear to show up on the desktop.
But that’s just a visual convenience. In truth, nothing in Windows