Chapter 8 -- Using Windows Explorer

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Chapter 8

In this chapter, we'll look at the many ways you can use Windows Explorer to manipulate your computer's local and networked files, folders, and programs.

As you've probably discovered, you can now switch easily between Windows Explorer (the Windows file browser program) and Microsoft Internet Explorer (the Windows Web browser program), and barely notice the transition. If you type an Internet address into Windows Explorer's Address bar, for example, a Web page might appear. And if you type the path of a local folder or network share into Internet Explorer's Address bar, suddenly you're back in Windows Explorer again. For all intents and purposes, the two programs are one in Microsoft Windows 2000.

We'll save the manipulation of Internet resources via Internet Explorer for Chapter 18 and focus here on local matters—such things as navigating through your computer's folder structure, moving and copying documents, and creating and modifying associations between file types and applications. For all the details about customizing the appearance of Windows Explorer, meanwhile, please turn back to Chapter 5.