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Hi, this is Gerard Mainardi. Today we're talking about how to organize your My Documents folder
in Windows XP. Remember, Microsoft Windows XP is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation,
of which I am not affiliated. Now we already talked about different ways to view your files,
as far as date created, file name. We talked about organizing your music. We do your pictures
kind of the same way, but lets take a look here. Here's everything in the My Pictures
folder, which you get to right here by going through My Documents. The easiest way to do
this, especially if you take a lot of pictures with a digital camera like I do, is to organize
things by names and dates. There was an All Good festival in 2007, Halloween 2006 and
2007. Now as you know, if you use a digital camera, when things come off, it's not in
a very clean format. Here you can see inside my 'behind the scenes' work folder, all the
file names are in a DSCF with a number code. Now an easy way to look through these things,
besides organizing by name, if you recall, we can click on things like the 'date modified'
or the 'date created'. This sorts them in ascending or descending order; another easy
way to look through your pictures. Now another good thing to do (we'll see if we look through
something like Halloween), is that you can go through and individually label each picture.
I find this very helpful, especially if you're sharing pictures with friends, trying to find
ones to burn to a CD. You're not looking through a bunch of file names that you don't know.
For instance, here's Outside-two through ten, pictures of Pass and Thomas, Paulie and Claire.
It's much easier to tell exactly what you're looking for when it's cleverly labeled. Now
the other thing to remember is, anything can go in here. You'll see here I have a Desktops
and a Buddy Icons folder for my computer desktops and my buddy icons, respectively. It's a lot
easier to keep organized if you keep everything as tight as possible. Don't be afraid to make
too many folders, and don't be afraid to label things as accurately as you can.