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2. Right-click (or hold your finger down on) one of the icons.

From the shortcut menu, choose Cut or Copy.

You may want to learn the keyboard shortcuts for these commands:
Ctrl+C for Copy, Ctrl+X for Cut. Or use the Cut and Copy buttons
on the Ribbon’s Home tab.

The Cut command makes the highlighted icons appear dimmed;
you’ve stashed them on the invisible Windows Clipboard. (They
don’t actually disappear from their original nesting place until you

paste them somewhere else—or hit the Esc key to cancel the
operation.)

The Copy command also places copies of the files on the

Clipboard, but it doesn’t disturb the originals after you paste.

3. Right-click the window, folder icon, or disk icon where you

want to put the icons. Choose Paste from the shortcut menu.

Once again, you may prefer to use the appropriate Ribbon button,
Paste, or the shortcut, Ctrl+V.

Either way, you’ve successfully transferred the icons. If you pasted

into an open window, you see the icons appear there. If you pasted
onto a closed folder or disk icon, you need to open the icon’s

window to see the results. And if you pasted right back into the
same window, you get a duplicate of the file called “[Filename] -
Copy.”

The Recycle Bin

The Recycle Bin is your desktop trash basket. This is where files and

folders go when they’ve outlived their usefulness. Basically, the Recycle
Bin is a waiting room for data oblivion, in that your files stay there until
you empty it—or until you rescue the files by dragging them out again.

While you can certainly drag files or folders onto the Recycle Bin icon, it’s
usually faster to highlight them and then perform one of the following