Wiley Alan Simpson's Windows Vista Bible 978-0-470-04030-0 Manual Do Utilizador

Understanding Disks and Drives ..............................................................................................655

Your computer’s hard disk ..............................................................................................655
Removable media............................................................................................................656

Floppies and Zip disks..........................................................................................656
CDs and DVDs ....................................................................................................657
Portable devices ....................................................................................................658
Flash cards and memory sticks ............................................................................658
Jump drives ..........................................................................................................659

Viewing your computer’s drives ......................................................................................660
Sizes and capacities ........................................................................................................661
How much room is there? ..............................................................................................662

Viewing disk contents ..........................................................................................663
Formatting disks ..................................................................................................664

About Folders ..........................................................................................................................664

Viewing the contents of a folder ......................................................................................665
Folders in folders (subfolders) ........................................................................................665
Parent folders..................................................................................................................666

About Files................................................................................................................................666

Opening and closing files................................................................................................667

Showing/hiding filename extensions ....................................................................667
Choosing a program to open a file ........................................................................668
Changing the default program ..............................................................................668
Windows cannot open this file ............................................................................669

File paths ........................................................................................................................670

Using Windows Explorer ..........................................................................................................671

Opening Windows Explorer............................................................................................672
Windows Explorer components ......................................................................................672
Show or hide optional panes ..........................................................................................674
Navigating with the Address bar ....................................................................................674
Navigating with Navigation pane ....................................................................................676

Adding places to Favorite Links ............................................................................677
Managing favorite links ........................................................................................677

Navigating from the contents pane..................................................................................677
Navigating to a disk drive ..............................................................................................678
Choosing an icon view ....................................................................................................679
Using columns in the Details view ..................................................................................679
Sorting icons ..................................................................................................................680
Grouping and stacking icons ..........................................................................................681
Stacking icons ................................................................................................................682
Filtering icons ................................................................................................................682
Using the Preview pane ..................................................................................................683
Using the Details pane ....................................................................................................684

To Click or Double-Click? ........................................................................................................685

Personalizing folder behavior ..........................................................................................686
Options on the View tab ................................................................................................687

Always show icons, never thumbnails ..................................................................688
Always show menus ............................................................................................688

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