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Understanding files and folders - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Computer Literacy for Windows 10
Understanding files and folders
- [Instructor] One of the most important concepts to understand when working with computers, is the system for organizing, storing and locating your files and applications. In this context, the term file a refers to a single item such as a word processing document, a photo a video clip, a song and so on. Applications are the programs that you run on your computer, which often use, interact with or create the file stored on your computer. Another term you'll frequently hear is folder. A folder is sometimes referred to as a directory but I think folder makes more sense, because it's easy to understand the concept of storing files within folders. In fact, everything you interact with on your computer, is stored in a hierarchy of folders. You can have folders nested within other folders and files stored throughout those nested folders. If it helps you can think of your hard drive as one big master folder or even a filing cabinet,…
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