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We're now in Windows Explorer. And on the left side,
you see a bunch of folders.
Folders are a way of organizing material
on any storage device in your machine,
and you can create them, delete them, etc.,
here in Windows Explorer.
But you can also see what is stored
in any of the folders or drives
by clicking on these little positive signs [+]
that means to expand out what was in there.
And under My Computer I now have a list of a number of things.
One of them is the hard drive. And I can expand that.
And I can see all the folders on the hard drive.
And then I can also expand one of those, say, Mystuff.
And I now expanded out what's in there.
And you can notice that there's a tree structure here,
of information; folders within folders within folders,
and that's the way you organize material on your storage device.
So I'm going to look at Camtasia, I'm going to expand it;
there's only one folder in there. So if I click,
so far I've just been clicking on the plus signs
to expand on this left-hand side.
This is kind of an outline if you will,
of the information that's on your machines, stored.
And in an outline folder fashion.
So if I click on the actual folder of Camtasia,
notice what will happen on the right-hand side over here,
as I clicked on that. And why it has changed
is that I've now opened up the Camtasia folder,
I didn't click on the plus sign, I clicked on the folder itself.
And I'm now looking at the contents of that folder
on the right side.
It has the folder that we already knew it was there, WE,
I knew that from the left-hand side.
But it also has a couple of files.
We can continue to open up folders if we find them, like WE.
We could either click the plus sign here,
which in this case would show all the folders
that are in this folder,
or we could click on the folder itself we now know,
and see them on the right-hand side.
And we can double-click on one of these,
and keep opening them from the right-hand side as well.
So we have this relationship between the two sides;
this is the outline.
And then if we want to see the contents of a folder
we can see it on the right-hand side.
And, this pretty much ends the second section
on the format of Windows E.