Accessing Everything

The Computer folder is the gateway to your computer’s contents, and it displays the icons that represent all your local storage areas: removable disk drives, hard disks, CD and DVD drives, and so on, as well as shared network files. From here you can venture as deep into the folder structure of your computer as you dare.

Open Any Folder

  1. Click the Start button, and choose Computer from the Start menu to open the Computer window.

  2. Double-click a drive icon to open a window for that drive.

  3. Point to a folder and review the properties ...

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