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    Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a
    little bit about the "Computer" utility
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    available in Windows 7 and how you can
    use it to navigate amongst your folders
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    and files and to copy and move and
    rename and delete files and folders.
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    There are a lot of different ways you
    can bring it up: You can click on the
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    Start menu and choose computer. From
    there you might have a desktop icon. My
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    favorite way of bringing it up is using
    the keyboard shortcut: You hold down the
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    "Windows" key which is the key with the
    Microsoft Windows' logo on it between the
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    "Control" and "Alt" keys in the lower
    left-hand corner of your keyboard. And
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    with the Windows key held down, hit the "e" key. Windows^e
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    will bring up Computer, and when you
    first bring it up you're able to see
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    your different drives. A drive is going
    to be represented by a capital letter,
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    and different drives might stand for
    different things; the hard disk drives
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    here stand for a part of the space on a hard
    disk that at this point is currently
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    located in the computer that you're
    working with at the moment. You will most
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    typically have a c: drive -- again
    representing part or possibly all of the
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    storage space on the hard disk located
    in your computer. I happen also to have a
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    different drive as part of my hard disk
    drive -- my f: drive. You probably aren't
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    going to be seeing a: or b: drives
    nowadays; both the letters "a" and "b" were
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    reserved for use for floppy disk drives. Before there were hard disk drives,
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    non-volatile storage media were floppy
    disk drives or floppy disks and
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    computers at one point actually often
    had two separate floppy disk drives: You'd
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    have your operating system fit on a
    single floppy disk back when we were
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    using Microsoft DOS and you would have a
    second disk drive -- your b: drive -- for your
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    programs and for your data. A little bit
    further down here you see that I've got
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    a d: drive that's a removable storage
    medium.
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    The letters after c: are often used for
    things like DVD drives, CD drives, thumb
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    drives, and the like. Down in this lower
    section you see I've got a number of
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    different network locations. These are
    storage space that are somewhere on the
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    network -- where they are is irrelevant;
    they're just not on our computer. Right
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    now you can see that the network
    locations have a cable as part of their
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    icon I'm going to open up my z: drive. By
    double clicking on it and I can see now
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    that I'm in the root directory of my z:
    drive. The root directory of the drive is
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    the very very top of the drive. Within
    here I see that I have quite a number
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    of folders, and then I have the files
    underneath. I'm going to open up my file
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    "practice folder." Suppose I wanted to go
    back to where I just came from. I could
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    click on the left arrow to revisit the
    place that I just came back from. I would
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    click on the right arrow just as you would
    in Internet Explorer. Nothing surprising
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    there. We also, however, have available
    what Microsoft calls "breadcrumbs," so if I
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    wish to click to just go back to the z:
    drive, I could click on this. I could
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    click on the "Computer" breadcrumb if I
    wanted to go all the way back up to the
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    top. Suppose I wanted to go into a
    different folder within the z: drive. If I
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    click on the down arrow just to the
    right of the z: drive's breadcrumb, I can
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    see all of the folders that are listed
    within the z: drive and I could click on
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    one that I chose to go into. I'm going to
    click on my back arrow again to return
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    to my "file practice" folder. Now, I have a
    different video that you can look at
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    that discusses changing views within
    Computer. I'm going to change to the
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    Details view,
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    and in this folder you can see that I
    have quite a number of different items.
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    In here I've got 19 items altogether.
    19 is perfectly manageable, but suppose
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    instead of having 19 items in here I had
    nineteen hundred items. That would be
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    very difficult to try to maneuver around,
    to try to find what you're interested in.
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    If you start getting too many items in
    a folder to be able to find what you're
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    interested in quickly and easily, you
    might wish to create a subfolder, and
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    there are a variety of different ways you
    can do that. In fact, there are quite a
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    number of different ways you can perform
    most of the tasks I'm going to be
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    discussing today. I will show you a few
    different ways; if you know of other ways
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    and they do the job, more power to you to
    you! Use whatever way you find easiest. So
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    one way you can create a new folder is
    to right-click a blank part of this pane
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    and choose "New Folder. " You'll be given
    the option to give the folder a name.
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    Maybe I'd like to move all my documents
    my Word documents in here, so I'll call
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    it "Docs" and I'll click out here, then I
    stop and reconsider: "Docs" might not be
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    the best name. You want a name that is
    reasonably short, but you want a name
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    that is descriptive enough. "Docs" might
    be short for "documents"; it might also be
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    short for "doctors," and depending on the
    context which is intended might be
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    obvious or it might not be. I'd like to
    make this a little bit clearer, so I'm
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    going to right click on "Docs" and choose
    "Rename." Now I can name it with the more
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    descriptive "Documents." I'd like to move
    all of my documents into this new folder;
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    they're scattered around here. One thing
    I could do would be to sort everything.
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    I'm going to be sorting by type and I
    can do this in the Details view, and then
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    I wish to select the items that I would
    like to copy or to move into my
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    Documents folder. If you wish just to
    move one individual item, you can just
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    click on it to select it. If you wish to
    select multiple items that are all right
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    next to each other, you can click on the first item hold, the
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    "Shift" key down, and while the "Shift" key
    is held down, click on the last item.
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    Clicking and then shift^clicking will
    select everything from the first item to
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    the last item and everything in between.
    Suppose I wanted all of these items
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    except for some reason I'd like to have
    my English notes stay where it is. I'd
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    like all the other documents to be moved
    into the "Documents" folder, but the English
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    notes I'd like to keep where they are. If
    that's the case, I can hold the "Control" (ctrl) key
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    down and with the "Control" key held down,
    I can click on "English notes."
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    Control^clicking will toggle the item you're
    control^clicking on between being
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    selected and not selected, and keep
    everything else in the same state it had
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    been. So I've re-selected my "English notes." Now I would like to move these all of
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    these documents into my "Documents" folder. There are quite a number of different
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    ways that I could move them. One thing I
    could do is I could simply drag these
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    items and drop them onto the "Documents"
    folder, and that would move them. I'm not
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    going to do that, though. Another way is, I
    could right-drag them -- hold the right
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    mouse button down and drag them on top of the "Documents" folder, and I'm given a
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    menu. I could choose at this point to
    move them; that's the default -- you can see
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    "Move Here" is bolded. That means that if I
    had just regular dragged -- held the left
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    mouse button down and dragged and
    dropped onto the "Documents" folder -- the
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    items would have been moved. I could also
    choose to copy these items or to create
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    shortcuts within the "Documents" folder
    pointing to these items. I'm going to
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    cancel this. All of these drag and drop
    and right-drag and drop methods work
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    beautifully if you see both what it is
    you'd like to copy or move and where
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    you'd like to copy or move it to. Now you
    can certainly use the left pane's "Folders"
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    pane to be able to display the folder
    that you're interested in moving to, but
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    there's another method of moving things
    or copying things from one random
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    location to another random location you
    don't have to have
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    with visible at the same time; that is to
    cut and paste, and there are a variety of
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    different ways that you can cut the
    items. One way is to right-click on the
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    selected items and choose "Cut." When you
    choose "Cut," the items are grayed out a
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    little bit. Then navigate to wherever
    you'd like to have the items placed --
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    where you'd like to have them "pasted," to
    use the technical term. So I've opened up
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    my "Documents" folder by double clicking
    on it. I'll right-click on an empty part
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    of this pane and I'll choose "Paste". You
    can see the documents are now in my
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    "Documents" folder. If I go up to my "File
    practice" folder, they're no longer
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    available in here, so you can cut and
    paste to move things. If you wish to copy
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    items, the process is almost identical. Maybe I want a copy of "grades 1" and "grades 3."
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    I clicked on "grades 1," control-clicked on
    "grades 3." I can right-click on "grades 3"
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    now, but now instead of choosing "cut" to
    cut and paste to move the item, I'll
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    choose "copy." Copy and paste will make a
    copy of these two items and place them
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    wherever I choose choose to paste them.
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    If you don't like all this right-clicking , there's another thing you can
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    use, if you have access to your menu bar. Your menu bar might be hidden; if you
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    don't see this menu bar in Computer, you
    can go to "Organize," "Layout" and click on
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    "Menu Bar." That will display -- this is a
    toggle -- If I were to click on "Menu Bar"
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    now, this menu bar would actually be
    hidden. So if you do
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    see your menu bar, you can go to the "File"
    menu and choose "new," and "Folder." This is a
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    different way of creating a folder, and
    maybe I'd like to put all of my
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    spreadsheets into this new folder, so I
    name this new folder "spreadsheets." I'm
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    going to click and shift-click to select the
    "grades 1" through "grades 6"
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    spreadsheets. Go up to the "Edit" menu item and I can choose now to cut or to copy
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    if I want to cut and paste or copy and
    paste to move or copy. I'm going to move
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    them, so I'll just cut. I'll go into
    "spreadsheets," edit, paste. Now you may have
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    noticed on this edit menu that next to
    cut and next to copy we've got some
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    couple of strange sequences of
    characters ctrl+X and ctrl+C. What are
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    they about? Well, they're keyboard shortcuts. If you wish to cut, what this menu is
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    saying with this is that you can
    select your items by holding the ctrl key down, and
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    while the ctrl key is held, down hit
    and release the X key. Control^X on the
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    keyboard does the exact same thing as
    going up to the Edit menu and choosing
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    "Cut." Similarly, control^C is the equivalent of edit-->copy. At the
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    moment, the next slide option (paste)
    is grayed out, but you could see that
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    paste has ctrl+v as its keyboard
    shortcut. Why control V? There are a
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    couple of reasons. One is that ctrl+p
    was already taken: Ctrl+p is the
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    keyboard shortcut for if you want to print
    something, but the other reason has to do with the
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    keyboard layout. If you cut an item or if
    you copy an item, the next logical thing
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    you're going to be doing is moving to a
    particular location and pasting it. so if
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    you're doing a lot with keyboard
    shortcuts, your hand has just gone to
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    ctrl+x or ctrl+c, and your finger
    might still be on the X or the C key. If
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    you take a look at your keyboard, V is
    right next to the X and C; It goes XCV,
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    so V was just chosen because it's
    right near the X and the C. It's a
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    little bit more efficient.
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    So today we've
    talked about how to open and use
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    Computer, we saw how you can navigate
    within Computer, how
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    you can create folders, why you'd want to
    create folders, how you can select
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    specific items to delete, to rename, to
    copy and paste and cut and paste.
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    Actually I don't think I talked about
    delete. I apologize. To delete an item,
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    simply click on it, hit the Delete key,
    and if it asks do you want to delete
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    this, yes you do. So we've talked about
    navigating, copying and moving files and
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    folders. We've talked about the
    significance of the different drive
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    letters, and now you should be able to
    maneuver around Computer without any
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    difficulty.
    Thank you
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  • Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course

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