Whenever you create a file or folder, Windows scrawls a bunch of secret hidden information on it: its size, the date you created it, and even more trivial stuff. Sometimes it even lets you add your own secret information: lyrics and reviews for your music files and folders, or thumbnail pictures for any of your folders.
To see what Windows is calling your files and folders behind your back, right-click on the item and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. Choosing Properties on a Jimi Hendrix song, for instance, brings up bunches of details.
Click the General tab and Windows shows that the Jimi Hendrix song is an MP3 audio file of the song "Hey Joe." The song is 3.27 MB in size, and it opens with Windows Media Player. (If you want a different MP3 player to play the song, click the Change button to select a different player.)
Click the Summary tab and click the Advanced button for the real fun. Windows displays the song's ID Tag information: the Artist, Album Title, Year, Track Number, Genre, Duration, and technical information.
Windows lets you see more information about files as they sit in a folder, too. Choose Details from a folder's View menu. Instead of just displaying icons, Windows displays detailed information about your files.
Folders usually display files sorted alphabetically. To sort them differently, right-click inside the folder and click the Arrange Icons By menu. Choose Sort by Size to place the largest files at the list's top. The Sort by Type option groups together files created by the same program. Choose Sort by Date to keep your most recent files at the list's top.
When the excitement of the Arrange Icons By menu wears off, try clicking the little buttons at the top of each sorted column. Click the Size button, for instance, to quickly place the largest files at the list's top. Click the Date button to quickly sort by date, instead.
Back to basics! Always good to have a solid foundation to build
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!joy
19 years ago
Mon May 29 2006, 05:09pm
Yup thats why you need read it very carefully Morgue !! !joy
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