Welcome to part 5 of our Windows XP^® tutorial.

In this part we will look at how to create, copy, rename and delete folders, as well as how to rename, copy and delete files.

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In part five:

Creating a new folder or folders.
Copy, delete, and rename files and folders.
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Creating a new folder or folders
As mentioned there are numerous ways to create a new folder in Win XP, we will look at only one method here.

Open Windows Explorer, navigate to the drive or folder in which you want to create your new folder. For our example we are going to create a new folder in our pc courses folder.

The steps are:

right click anywhere in the white space (fig 1.1) and hover the mouse over new
then click on folder from the sub-menu that appears as shown in fig 1.2 below.

You will then be prompted to name the folder (as shown in fig 1.3 on the left), simply type in the name and then press the enter (return) key. We are going to name our folder example C.

Try and be as descriptive as you can when naming folders, and avoid using any punctuation symbols in the names.

Copying, Deleting, and Renaming Files and Folders All of these tasks are straight forward and can be achieved using the same method. First, navigate to the folder where the file or folder is stored, then right click on the file/folder of interest. You will be presented with a menu similar to that shown in fig 1.4.
	Your menu may vary, we have pointed out 3 options: copy - clicking on this option will copy the file or folder into (the clipboard) memory. You can then navigate to the folder where you want to copy the file to, right click (as if making a new folder) in the right hand pane and select paste from the menu that appears. delete - this option will delete the file or folder (send it to the recycle bin), Windows XP will prompt you for confirmation first. rename - this option allows you to rename the file or folder, simply type in the new name and press the enter (return) key.
For quicker ways of achieving the above tasks, see our guide to Keyboard Shortcuts.

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