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The Missing Manual: Organizing Your Stuff

Overview Every disk, folder, file, application, printer, and networked computer is represented on the screen by an icon. To avoid spraying the 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 that one has got some hunting to do whenever one want to open a particular icon. Helping one navigate and manage the files, folders, and disks with less stress and greater speed was one of the primary design goals of Windows - and of this paper.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2005	Downloads	1
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Windows XP

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