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0:00 - 0:04Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a
little bit about the "Computer" utility -
0:04 - 0:09available in Windows 7 and how you can
use it to navigate amongst your folders -
0:09 - 0:15and files and to copy and move and
rename and delete files and folders. -
0:15 - 0:19There are a lot of different ways you
can bring it up: You can click on the -
0:19 - 0:25Start menu and choose computer. From
there you might have a desktop icon. My -
0:25 - 0:28favorite way of bringing it up is using
the keyboard shortcut: You hold down the -
0:28 - 0:33"Windows" key which is the key with the
Microsoft Windows' logo on it between the -
0:33 - 0:36"Control" and "Alt" keys in the lower
left-hand corner of your keyboard. And -
0:36 - 0:43with the Windows key held down, hit the "e" key. Windows^e
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0:43 - 0:49will bring up Computer, and when you
first bring it up you're able to see -
0:49 - 0:54your different drives. A drive is going
to be represented by a capital letter, -
0:54 - 1:00and different drives might stand for
different things; the hard disk drives -
1:00 - 1:07here stand for a part of the space on a hard
disk that at this point is currently -
1:07 - 1:15located in the computer that you're
working with at the moment. You will most -
1:15 - 1:19typically have a c: drive -- again
representing part or possibly all of the -
1:19 - 1:24storage space on the hard disk located
in your computer. I happen also to have a -
1:24 - 1:32different drive as part of my hard disk
drive -- my f: drive. You probably aren't -
1:32 - 1:38going to be seeing a: or b: drives
nowadays; both the letters "a" and "b" were -
1:38 - 1:43reserved for use for floppy disk drives. Before there were hard disk drives,
-
1:43 - 1:48non-volatile storage media were floppy
disk drives or floppy disks and -
1:48 - 1:54computers at one point actually often
had two separate floppy disk drives: You'd -
1:54 - 1:58have your operating system fit on a
single floppy disk back when we were -
1:58 - 2:05using Microsoft DOS and you would have a
second disk drive -- your b: drive -- for your -
2:05 - 2:10programs and for your data. A little bit
further down here you see that I've got -
2:10 - 2:14a d: drive that's a removable storage
medium. -
2:14 - 2:22The letters after c: are often used for
things like DVD drives, CD drives, thumb -
2:22 - 2:26drives, and the like. Down in this lower
section you see I've got a number of -
2:26 - 2:32different network locations. These are
storage space that are somewhere on the -
2:32 - 2:36network -- where they are is irrelevant;
they're just not on our computer. Right -
2:36 - 2:41now you can see that the network
locations have a cable as part of their -
2:41 - 2:50icon I'm going to open up my z: drive. By
double clicking on it and I can see now -
2:50 - 2:55that I'm in the root directory of my z:
drive. The root directory of the drive is -
2:55 - 3:01the very very top of the drive. Within
here I see that I have quite a number -
3:01 - 3:06of folders, and then I have the files
underneath. I'm going to open up my file -
3:06 - 3:13"practice folder." Suppose I wanted to go
back to where I just came from. I could -
3:13 - 3:19click on the left arrow to revisit the
place that I just came back from. I would -
3:19 - 3:23click on the right arrow just as you would
in Internet Explorer. Nothing surprising -
3:23 - 3:30there. We also, however, have available
what Microsoft calls "breadcrumbs," so if I -
3:30 - 3:34wish to click to just go back to the z:
drive, I could click on this. I could -
3:34 - 3:37click on the "Computer" breadcrumb if I
wanted to go all the way back up to the -
3:37 - 3:44top. Suppose I wanted to go into a
different folder within the z: drive. If I -
3:44 - 3:49click on the down arrow just to the
right of the z: drive's breadcrumb, I can -
3:49 - 3:53see all of the folders that are listed
within the z: drive and I could click on -
3:53 - 3:59one that I chose to go into. I'm going to
click on my back arrow again to return -
3:59 - 4:05to my "file practice" folder. Now, I have a
different video that you can look at -
4:05 - 4:09that discusses changing views within
Computer. I'm going to change to the -
4:09 - 4:12Details view,
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4:15 - 4:20and in this folder you can see that I
have quite a number of different items. -
4:20 - 4:25In here I've got 19 items altogether.
19 is perfectly manageable, but suppose -
4:25 - 4:31instead of having 19 items in here I had
nineteen hundred items. That would be -
4:31 - 4:35very difficult to try to maneuver around,
to try to find what you're interested in. -
4:35 - 4:40If you start getting too many items in
a folder to be able to find what you're -
4:40 - 4:44interested in quickly and easily, you
might wish to create a subfolder, and -
4:44 - 4:48there are a variety of different ways you
can do that. In fact, there are quite a -
4:48 - 4:51number of different ways you can perform
most of the tasks I'm going to be -
4:51 - 4:55discussing today. I will show you a few
different ways; if you know of other ways -
4:55 - 5:02and they do the job, more power to you to
you! Use whatever way you find easiest. So -
5:02 - 5:06one way you can create a new folder is
to right-click a blank part of this pane -
5:06 - 5:11and choose "New Folder. " You'll be given
the option to give the folder a name. -
5:11 - 5:16Maybe I'd like to move all my documents
my Word documents in here, so I'll call -
5:16 - 5:24it "Docs" and I'll click out here, then I
stop and reconsider: "Docs" might not be -
5:24 - 5:29the best name. You want a name that is
reasonably short, but you want a name -
5:29 - 5:34that is descriptive enough. "Docs" might
be short for "documents"; it might also be -
5:34 - 5:38short for "doctors," and depending on the
context which is intended might be -
5:38 - 5:43obvious or it might not be. I'd like to
make this a little bit clearer, so I'm -
5:43 - 5:49going to right click on "Docs" and choose
"Rename." Now I can name it with the more -
5:49 - 5:57descriptive "Documents." I'd like to move
all of my documents into this new folder; -
5:57 - 6:03they're scattered around here. One thing
I could do would be to sort everything. -
6:03 - 6:10I'm going to be sorting by type and I
can do this in the Details view, and then -
6:10 - 6:16I wish to select the items that I would
like to copy or to move into my -
6:16 - 6:22Documents folder. If you wish just to
move one individual item, you can just -
6:22 - 6:27click on it to select it. If you wish to
select multiple items that are all right -
6:27 - 6:32next to each other, you can click on the first item hold, the
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6:32 - 6:37"Shift" key down, and while the "Shift" key
is held down, click on the last item. -
6:37 - 6:41Clicking and then shift^clicking will
select everything from the first item to -
6:41 - 6:46the last item and everything in between.
Suppose I wanted all of these items -
6:46 - 6:52except for some reason I'd like to have
my English notes stay where it is. I'd -
6:52 - 6:55like all the other documents to be moved
into the "Documents" folder, but the English -
6:55 - 7:00notes I'd like to keep where they are. If
that's the case, I can hold the "Control" (ctrl) key -
7:00 - 7:06down and with the "Control" key held down,
I can click on "English notes." -
7:06 - 7:11Control^clicking will toggle the item you're
control^clicking on between being -
7:11 - 7:16selected and not selected, and keep
everything else in the same state it had -
7:16 - 7:24been. So I've re-selected my "English notes." Now I would like to move these all of
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7:24 - 7:28these documents into my "Documents" folder. There are quite a number of different
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7:28 - 7:33ways that I could move them. One thing I
could do is I could simply drag these -
7:33 - 7:39items and drop them onto the "Documents"
folder, and that would move them. I'm not -
7:39 - 7:44going to do that, though. Another way is, I
could right-drag them -- hold the right -
7:44 - 7:49mouse button down and drag them on top of the "Documents" folder, and I'm given a
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7:49 - 7:54menu. I could choose at this point to
move them; that's the default -- you can see -
7:54 - 7:58"Move Here" is bolded. That means that if I
had just regular dragged -- held the left -
7:58 - 8:02mouse button down and dragged and
dropped onto the "Documents" folder -- the -
8:02 - 8:06items would have been moved. I could also
choose to copy these items or to create -
8:06 - 8:11shortcuts within the "Documents" folder
pointing to these items. I'm going to -
8:11 - 8:17cancel this. All of these drag and drop
and right-drag and drop methods work -
8:17 - 8:23beautifully if you see both what it is
you'd like to copy or move and where -
8:23 - 8:28you'd like to copy or move it to. Now you
can certainly use the left pane's "Folders" -
8:28 - 8:32pane to be able to display the folder
that you're interested in moving to, but -
8:32 - 8:37there's another method of moving things
or copying things from one random -
8:37 - 8:40location to another random location you
don't have to have -
8:40 - 8:46with visible at the same time; that is to
cut and paste, and there are a variety of -
8:46 - 8:50different ways that you can cut the
items. One way is to right-click on the -
8:50 - 8:57selected items and choose "Cut." When you
choose "Cut," the items are grayed out a -
8:57 - 9:02little bit. Then navigate to wherever
you'd like to have the items placed -- -
9:02 - 9:06where you'd like to have them "pasted," to
use the technical term. So I've opened up -
9:06 - 9:11my "Documents" folder by double clicking
on it. I'll right-click on an empty part -
9:11 - 9:16of this pane and I'll choose "Paste". You
can see the documents are now in my -
9:16 - 9:20"Documents" folder. If I go up to my "File
practice" folder, they're no longer -
9:20 - 9:31available in here, so you can cut and
paste to move things. If you wish to copy -
9:31 - 9:37items, the process is almost identical. Maybe I want a copy of "grades 1" and "grades 3."
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9:37 - 9:43I clicked on "grades 1," control-clicked on
"grades 3." I can right-click on "grades 3" -
9:43 - 9:48now, but now instead of choosing "cut" to
cut and paste to move the item, I'll -
9:48 - 9:54choose "copy." Copy and paste will make a
copy of these two items and place them -
9:54 - 9:58wherever I choose choose to paste them.
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9:59 - 10:05If you don't like all this right-clicking , there's another thing you can
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10:05 - 10:11use, if you have access to your menu bar. Your menu bar might be hidden; if you
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10:11 - 10:19don't see this menu bar in Computer, you
can go to "Organize," "Layout" and click on -
10:19 - 10:22"Menu Bar." That will display -- this is a
toggle -- If I were to click on "Menu Bar" -
10:22 - 10:32now, this menu bar would actually be
hidden. So if you do -
10:32 - 10:37see your menu bar, you can go to the "File"
menu and choose "new," and "Folder." This is a -
10:37 - 10:41different way of creating a folder, and
maybe I'd like to put all of my -
10:41 - 10:48spreadsheets into this new folder, so I
name this new folder "spreadsheets." I'm -
10:48 - 10:54going to click and shift-click to select the
"grades 1" through "grades 6" -
10:54 - 11:08spreadsheets. Go up to the "Edit" menu item and I can choose now to cut or to copy
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11:08 - 11:12if I want to cut and paste or copy and
paste to move or copy. I'm going to move -
11:12 - 11:22them, so I'll just cut. I'll go into
"spreadsheets," edit, paste. Now you may have -
11:22 - 11:31noticed on this edit menu that next to
cut and next to copy we've got some -
11:31 - 11:38couple of strange sequences of
characters ctrl+X and ctrl+C. What are -
11:38 - 11:43they about? Well, they're keyboard shortcuts. If you wish to cut, what this menu is
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11:43 - 11:48saying with this is that you can
select your items by holding the ctrl key down, and -
11:48 - 11:55while the ctrl key is held, down hit
and release the X key. Control^X on the -
11:55 - 11:58keyboard does the exact same thing as
going up to the Edit menu and choosing -
11:58 - 12:07"Cut." Similarly, control^C is the equivalent of edit-->copy. At the
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12:07 - 12:11moment, the next slide option (paste)
is grayed out, but you could see that -
12:11 - 12:17paste has ctrl+v as its keyboard
shortcut. Why control V? There are a -
12:17 - 12:22couple of reasons. One is that ctrl+p
was already taken: Ctrl+p is the -
12:22 - 12:26keyboard shortcut for if you want to print
something, but the other reason has to do with the -
12:26 - 12:32keyboard layout. If you cut an item or if
you copy an item, the next logical thing -
12:32 - 12:36you're going to be doing is moving to a
particular location and pasting it. so if -
12:36 - 12:41you're doing a lot with keyboard
shortcuts, your hand has just gone to -
12:41 - 12:48ctrl+x or ctrl+c, and your finger
might still be on the X or the C key. If -
12:48 - 12:53you take a look at your keyboard, V is
right next to the X and C; It goes XCV, -
12:53 - 12:57so V was just chosen because it's
right near the X and the C. It's a -
12:57 - 13:00little bit more efficient.
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13:00 - 13:04So today we've
talked about how to open and use -
13:04 - 13:08Computer, we saw how you can navigate
within Computer, how -
13:08 - 13:11you can create folders, why you'd want to
create folders, how you can select -
13:11 - 13:20specific items to delete, to rename, to
copy and paste and cut and paste. -
13:20 - 13:24Actually I don't think I talked about
delete. I apologize. To delete an item, -
13:24 - 13:28simply click on it, hit the Delete key,
and if it asks do you want to delete -
13:28 - 13:36this, yes you do. So we've talked about
navigating, copying and moving files and -
13:36 - 13:38folders. We've talked about the
significance of the different drive -
13:38 - 13:46letters, and now you should be able to
maneuver around Computer without any -
13:46 - 13:49difficulty.
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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Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course
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Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course