From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

Looking at storage

From the course: Help Yourself: Tech Tips Weekly

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Looking at storage

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- [Narrator] The top level of organization in Windows is what you see here, the desktop though your PCs desktop might not be as stark as mine. Press the Windows + E keyboard shortcut to bring up a File Explorer window. It opens in the quick access area but click there this up arrow here. You are now at the top level desktop. In this window, you would see icons that appear on the desktop or are otherwise considered top level storage or items such as the control panel and network. Open this PC. This window shows a quick summary of a few items, popular folders, which I shall minimize, local drives and network locations. These network locations are storage devices that are sharing resources on the local network. These include media servers, other computers on the same network, as well as network storage locations you've mapped to a local drive letter such as drive Z here, but up in this area, devices and drives, you see local storage. They include the PCs primary drive C plus any internal drives, external drives, media cards, thumb drives, and so on depending on how your computer is configured. Drive C is considered the primary hard drive because it's where windows dwells. See this icon? It means that this is the boot drive. It's where the operating system is found. And in this view, details about the drives storage appears graphically as well as with numbers. For example, drive C is a 250 gigabyte hard drive which has 166 gigabytes free. More details on this or any drive can be revealed by right clicking the drive and choosing properties. In the drive's properties dialog box, you see further capacity details, this drive is a local drive and the file system type is NTFS plus you have access to drive tools and other exciting things. The hardware tab describes some nerdy details and more information is available from other technical tools provided by Windows. When it comes to looking at storage, however, this window provides a quick overview as well as a way to manage storage including a injecting removable media, formatting, media and performing other activities related to storage available on your computer.

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