We've had a look at the program called
Explorer before in the article
Seeing what's on the computer.

It can be opened from the
Desktop by clicking either of these two icons - obviously you won't have one called
Burke, John but it may have your own name or your user name or on older computers may be called
My Documents.

You can also open
Explorer by holding the
Windows key down with your thumb and tapping the
E key with your finger. This can be a very useful thing to remember!
Let's start by going to the folder where we want to create the new folder. Once you are there, any content already in the folder should appear in the right hand window of
Explorer.
There's almost always more than one way to do something but let's start with the one most people are familiar with - the
File Menu.

In
Windows Vista the default is for the menus to be invisible. If this is so you can still bring them up by holding the
Alt key down with your thumb and tapping the first letter of the menu name with your finger. So for the
File menu hold down
Alt and tap
F. You will see this written down as
ALT-F. For the
Edit menu you would
ALT-E and so on. Remember that this tip will work in any software, not just
Explorer.
Under the
File menu click on
New which will then open up a new window and then click
Folder as shown.
But that's the hard way! And there are two other ways of doing the same thing!

You can move the mouse pointer to a white area in the folder where you want to create a sub-folder and
right-click. Then choose
New and then
Folder as described above.

Or you could
right-click in the left hand column on the folder name where you want your new folder creating and then choose
New and then
Folder.

Your new folder will appear like this with the folder name "
New Folder highlighted for you to type a name for it.
Note: you don't have to delete this as I've watched countless people do - just start typing and the existing text will disappear as you type the first letter of the new folder's name.
If you click the mouse anywhere else though the folder keeps its name of
New Folder. You can still rename it - and any other folder - at any time as follows.
Click on the folder name to select the folder. Then you have a choice...

You can use the
File menu again and choose
Rename.
Or you can click on the folder once more and the name will be highlighted ready for over-typing. (Don't double-click though as this opens the folder - you have to click once to select it, pause and then click again to rename it)
Or you can press the
F2 key which will highlight the folder name. This works on files too. Click once on any file or folder, press
F2 and the name is highlighted for you to type a new name.
Note: if it's a file and you can see the extension (the dot and three-characters as in filename.doc or filename.exe) then whatever you do, make sure you leave the dot and the same three characters! Otherwise the file may not work.
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