Re: Microsoft Explorer

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From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:41:17 -0700

In news:qkc7g0pmjrf1bijdc8ojabmm249b45mt58@4ax.com,
Alex Nichol <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> typed:

> shirley wrote:
>
>>I don't find Microsoft Explorer on my new Windows XP
>>system. With Microsoft Explorer I could rearrange and
>>delete files. Is there some other software that
>>accommodates these functions?
>
> Windows Explorer (not Microsoft Explorer) is at All Programs -
> Accessories.
>
> Also on new keyboards, the 'Windows' keys, between Alt and
Ctrl,
> together with E will launch it
>
> You can also r-click the Desktop, take Properties and on the
Desktop
> page click Customise. Check My Computer to be on the desktop.
If you
> launch that and click Folders in its tool bar it switches to
Explorer
> view

Alex, if I may add a footnote to that, which Shirley perhaps
doesn't realize (many people don't). You've implied it, but let
me say it directly: Windows Explorer and My Computer are the same
program. The program simply has two ways of presenting the data,
and they are (somewhat confusing) named differently, so they
appear to be two separate programs. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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