When I was buying my first PC many years ago, a friend suggested that I create a few partitions on my new machine's hard disk to minimize the length of the directory listing. At that time, Microsoft had yet to invent Windows Explorer, so people typically used the MS-DOS Dir command to explore a disk's contents. My friend's advice made sense: When you need to quickly locate a certain folder, a short directory listing simplifies the task.
Now, Windows Explorer has scroll bars and multicolumn views to help users find folders. However, finding folders can still be difficult because hard disk capacity has grown so large and, by default, Windows Explorer uses the same yellow-folder icon for all folders. Fortunately, in Windows Explorer, you can make certain folders stand out from the crowd by customizing their icons and descriptions.
Folders in Windows Explorer
In Windows Explorer, a folder is more than a file-system directory. Just as a file-system directory is a container of files and subdirectories, a folder is a container of folder items and subfolders. . . .
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