Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows® 7 in 10 Minutes

Lesson 3. Working with Libraries

Windows 7’s Libraries

When you open the Start menu and click Documents, Pictures, Music, or Videos, you open a new feature of Windows 7 known as libraries.

A library contains multiple folders, enabling you to see the contents of these folders at the same time. For example, the default contents of the Documents library include the current user’s My Documents folder and the Public Documents folder. Likewise for music, pictures, and videos, each user’s library contains the public folders and the user’s individual folders for each content type. You can add any folder on a local or network hard disk to a library, so you can see the contents of external hard disks that contain pictures or other contents just by opening ...