Chapter 4. Organizing, Searching, and Indexing

One of your com puter’s most important functions is to make it possible for you to create and store everything—from documents and pictures to songs, videos, and program data files. Windows 7 gives you many options for helping you organize, search for, and index these files. To get the most out of the available features, you need to master Windows Explorer and Windows Search.

Exploring Your Computer in New Ways

Out of all the components of the Windows operating system that you’ll use, you’ll spend more time using Windows Explorer. Every time you browse files and folders on your computer, you use Windows Explorer—whether you specifically open an Explorer window or you use the Open command in an application, ...

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