Windows Explorer Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial
Following a “tagline” of Adobe PDF Reader Primer Tutorial we realized “infilling” was needed.
So what’s a “tagline”? Our way of saying that with Blogging you think of a good apt “tag” for a posting, add it in, and follow it, to see what a blog reader sees. What comes up (from the “tagline” click), only, as related blog postings, panned out to be “introductory” by nature, whereas the current post we had “tagline”d with this tag assumed a lot of knowledge not covered between these blog postings (by others tagged similarly) … annoying, huh?!
Hence, “infilling”, to us, is that creation of blog posts to “infill” blog user knowledge that makes this a more useful blog, we’re hoping?!
Okay, what started all this in Adobe PDF Reader Primer Tutorial was …
You can perhaps use other options within the Adobe Reader application to further organize, or use the traditional functionality of Windows Explorer …
… so then we realized a good “tag” would be “Windows Explorer” … but with a “tagline” of this we realized we hadn’t covered Windows Explorer (for Windows) nor Finder (for Mac OS X) regarding file and folder management regarding (in order that today’s slideshow shows these) …
- New Folder creation
- Rename folder or file
- Move file via drag and drop
- Copy file via right click operation (preparatory to Paste)
- Paste file via right click operation (preceeded by Copy)
- Copy/Paste files via highlight (with left click Windows Ctrl button and Mac Command button) and right click operations
… we gasped … and burped (but we digress).
Today we cover in Windows (Explorer), and tomorrow in Mac (Finder), these vitally important, perhaps the most important laptop and desktop skills there are, via slideshow presentations. We use mouse methods, though we encourage you to also research …
- Edit menu methods
- keyboard shortcut methods
- Windows DOS command line or Mac Terminal Bash command line
… alternative approaches. There are alternative approaches to starting Windows Explorer, as a desktop application, in the first place, and some that we can think of off the top of the head are …
- double click a folder (which is the approach we did today)
- at Windows icon at bottom left right click for Windows Explorer
- find Windows Explorer as a program in the Windows Menu coming up from bottom left or Windows 10 and 11 application list
- hold down Windows key and type E (as explained here)
- perhaps as a double click of a shortcut you made to Windows Explorer on your desktop
- perhaps as a double click of a TaskBar icon you made to open Windows Explorer
- perhaps as a click of a Windows menu option you made to open Windows Explorer
These are skills where personal practice makes perfect, but are not that relevant to mobile platforms where hard disks are not the go.
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