Windows® 98 Unleashed

Chapter 14. File and Folder Tricks and Techniques

IN THIS CHAPTER

• First, a Few File and Folder Fundamentals

• Exploiting Explorer: Shortcut Keys, Customizations, and More

• Can I Get There from Here? Working with Shortcuts

• Working with File Types

• Finding File Needles in Hard Disk Haystacks

• Trash Talk: Understanding the Recycle Bin

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

—Quentin Crisp

Education might take as its foundation the three Rs (reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic), but for Windows 98, it's the three Fs: files, folders, and floppy (or fixed) disks. When you're not slaving away in your applications, you'll spend a good chunk of your Windows 98 life working with at least one of these “f-words.” ...