Part VI. Managing Files and Folders
Long gone are the days when people used floppy disks and small hard drives to manage a few dozen or a few hundred files. Today's enormous capacity hard drives let every user store thousands, even tens of thousands, of personal files in their personal computers. Microsoft was keenly aware that most people were struggling with managing enormous file collections when they designed Windows 7. And it really shows.
Chapter 28 starts off with the basics of what drives, folders, and files are all about. It's primarily intended for people who are new to all of this, or at least pretty fuzzy on what those terms are all about. Chapter 29 gets into the specifics of managing files and folders, including important skills for moving, copying, renaming, deleting, and recovering files.
Chapters 31 and 32 get into the search index, perhaps the single most important and useful (and least understood) feature of Windows 7. As you'll discover in those chapters, the search index is basically a search engine for your own computer's content rather than the Internet's content. It's a real boon to those who have a lot of files stored on their hard drives.
Chapter 32 gets into the world of optical media, ...
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