Two Views of Windows Explorer
The most basic building block of Windows is the icon. Every object you work with has its own icon—files and folders, drives and network servers, programs, printers, and shortcuts to web pages. Program icons are as distinctive as product logos, data files use standard icons that help you group related files easily, and system objects use icons that are intended to illustrate their main function. They're all organized into folders and subfolders in a strict hierarchy.
Whenever you view or manage icons and folders, you use a program called the Windows Explorer in one of its two views. Right-click a drive or folder icon, and shortcut menus enable you to choose between the two faces of Explorer: Click Open, and the contents ...
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