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There are about 500 different ways to open the Properties dialog box for

your This PC icon. For example, you can click This PC in the navigation
pane of any window and then click “System properties” on the Ribbon’s
Computer tab. Or right-click the This PC icon (in the nav pane again); from
the shortcut menu, choose Properties.

The System Properties window is packed with useful information about
your machine: what kind of processor is inside, how much memory (RAM)
it has, whether or not it has a touchscreen, and what version of Windows

you’ve got.

The panel at the left side of the window (shown in Figure 3-8, bottom)
includes some useful links—“Device Manager,” “Remote settings,”

“System protection,” and “Advanced system settings”—all of which are
described elsewhere in this book.

Note, however, that most of them work by opening the old System

Properties Control Panel. Its tabs give a terse, but more complete, look at
the tech specs and features of your PC. These, too, are described in the
relevant parts of this book—all except “Computer Name.” Here you can

type a plain-English name for your computer (“Casey’s Laptop,” for
example). That’s how it will appear to other people on the network, if you
have one.

Disks

In a disk’s Properties dialog box, you can see all kinds of information about
the disk itself, like its name (which you can change right there in the box),
its capacity (which you can’t), and how much of it is full.

This dialog box’s various tabs are also gateways to a host of maintenance
and backup features, including Disk Cleanup, Error-Checking, Defrag,
Backup, and Quotas; all of these are described in Chapter 17.

Data files

The properties for a plain old document depend on what kind of document
it is. You always see a General tab, but other tabs may also appear