Section 2.12. Start My Music, My Pictures

2.12. Start My Music, My Pictures

Clearly, Microsoft imagined that most of its Windows XP customers would be multimedia mavens, decked out with digital cameras and MP3 music players. To hammer home the point, it has stocked your My Documents folder with My Pictures and My Music folders to store digital photos and music files, respectively.

Figure 2-11. The My Computer window gives you an overview of your PC's world. You see icons representing your hard drive and any CD, floppy disk, and other internal or external drives Windows detects. If anything's in the drive, as is the case for the CD drive here, you can see that, too. Double-click the icon to read the contents.

If you do indeed have a digital camera or MP3 player (and it's Windows XP compatible), you'll probably find that whatever software came with it automatically dumps your photos into, and sucks your music files out of, these folders. You'll find more on this topic in Chapter 6.