Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
3.
In the Favorites list at the left, click Desktop.
4.
Click Ctrl+V to paste the copy onto the desktop.
5.
Select the copy, and press Delete to delete it.
EXERCISE 5.10
Copy a File at a Command Prompt
1.
Click Start. Type
cmd
, and press Enter. A command prompt window opens.
2.
Type
cd documents
, and press Enter. A list of all the fi les in your
Documents
folder
appears.
3.
Pick one of the fi les. (For this example, I'll use
chart.ppt
, but you can use any fi le.)
4.
At the command prompt, type
copy
chart.ppt
backup.ppt
, substituting the fi le you chose
for
chart.ppt
. Press Enter. A backup copy of the fi le is created in the same folder.
5.
Type
del backup.ppt
to delete the fi le.
6.
Type
copy
chart.ppt
C:\Users\backup.ppt
, substituting the fi le you chose earlier for
chart.ppt
. Press Enter. A backup copy of the fi le is created in the
C:\Users
folder.
7.
Type
cd \Users
, and press Enter.
8.
Type
dir backup.*
, and press Enter. All the fi les named
backup
in this folder appear. The
wildcard
*
includes all fi le extensions.
9.
Type
del backup.ppt
, and press Enter. The fi le you placed here earlier is now deleted.
10.
Close the command prompt window.
Assigning a Folder Structure During Installation
When you install a new application, there is usually an option to specify into what folder
the application's fi les will be placed. You may need to click a Custom or Options link or
button during setup to access that screen. It's a one-time offer to get to specify the location;
you can't usually rename or move application fi les after you do the install, or they won't
work anymore. In most cases, the default location that the setup program suggests is fi ne, if
you have no other preference.
On a Windows PC, most applications place their fi les in a subfolder within the
C:\
Program Files
folder. This centralizes the locations of application fi les. It would be
less desirable to create a separate folder at the top level of the folder structure for each
application because it doing so clutters up the root folder.
Many Windows applications are 32-bit, so they run on either 32-bit or 64-bit versions of
Windows. If you're running a 64-bit version of Windows, there may be two separate folders:
Program Files
for 64-bit applications and
Program Files (x86)
for 32-bit applications.
