Chapter 3. FILES, FOLDERS, AND WINDOWS

Chapter 3. FILES, FOLDERS, AND WINDOWS

Windows got its name from the rectangles on the screenthe windows where every computer activity takes place. You look at a Web page in a window, type into a window, read email in a window, and look at lists of files in a window. But as you create more files, stash them in more folders, and open more programs, it's easy to wind up paralyzed before a screen awash with cluttered, overlapping rectangles.

Fortunately, Windows Vista is crawling with icons, buttons , and other inventions to help you keep these windows under controlalong with the files and folders inside them.