WINDOW EXPLORER

Window explorer is a helpful tool that enables you to neatly organize your documents and folders. With window explorer, you can view and select documents. Because of its nature, it makes it easy to select any of these from the screen. Floppy drive, hand disk drive, document folder and all the documents, because they are made visible on the screen. When it is initiated it displays on the screen dividing into two parts. The display is shown in a free form. At the left side, we have containers like disk and folders. A folder may contain another folder inside it, clicking the object on the left hand side will automatically display the content of it at the right side. The content can be viewed and the operation desired carried out, such may be: deleting a document or several documents, moving document to different location, searching for a document, copying a whole disk, formatting a disk, creating a folder, removing a folder etc.

How to use Window Explorer

·         Start Window Explorer by clicking the start button,

·         Selecting programs and then selecting window explorer.

·         If the folder you want to view contain other folders, click the plus (+) button to expand the hierarchy list.

·         Click the folder you want to use and it contents will be displayed in the contents (right) pane.

·         If you however point your cursor over a folder, details about that item will be displayed. If you however oversee a popular file type (such as a word or excel document) a thumbnail view of the first page of the file will also be displayed.

·         To open a file, just click its icon. In addition, you can move, copy, remove, or delete any file or folder in explorer by right-clicking the corresponding icon and going through the steps.

·         To view any part of your system from the windows explorer window, pull down the address bar and select an item, for example, if you select control panel, the contents of control panel appear in the contents pane.

·         To close windows explorer, pull down the file menu and choose close.

Deleting a file

·         Highlight the file you wish to delete.

·         Right click the highlighted file to display the menu

·         Click on Delete option from the menu

·         Select Yes to delete or No to cancel

Moving a Window

It is possible to move a window from it position to another position. This is done by placing the mouse pointer on the title bar and then dragging it to the desired location.

Syntax of doing this

·         Point the mouse pointer on the title bar of the desired window you want to move.

·         Press the left button and hold down

·         Drag the window to the area on the screen you want to place it.

·         Release the mouse button.

Minimizing and Maximizing Windows

When a  window is minimized, it becomes a button on the task bar. On the other hand a maximized window takes the full screen of a document or application.

To Restore a minimized window

Click it minimize button, click its button on the task bar. To restore a minimized document within an application, click its minimize button in the application window.

Other methods of restoring minimized or maximized window to their former state are

·         Click the restore button in the window

·         Right click the task bar button that represent the windows and choose restore

·         Click on the Icons in the windows upper left corner to open the control menu and choose restore to return the window to it previous size.

Resizing Windows

To resize a window means to increase or decrease the size of the window so that the window can fit on a selected space on a disk top.

Steps on how to resize windows

a.    Position the mouse pointer on any corner or side of the window. The pointer changes to a double headed arrow.

b.    Hold down the left mouse button

c.     Drag the item to the desired side. Drag towards the window to reduce the size; drag away from the window to enlarge it. An outline shows the proposed size

d.    Release the mouse button