Creating Folders on a Windows PC

Creating Folders on a Windows PC

A Folder (also known as a Directory or Sub-Directory) is a way of organizing files and other folders. Here's how to create a folder.

Activity: Creating a Folder

1) Arrange your application windows so you can see this document and also see a large-ish part of the desktop. (Click here if you're not sure how to arrange windows. Clicking on this link will cause another browser window to open. Read through / practice that and then close that window and you'll be back here.)

2) Put the pointer on the desktop where you want the folder show up.

3) Do a right-click and go to New menu in that appears.

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Notes:

Most all mouse clicks we talk about are Left clicks, that is, clicking the mouse button on the left. This may be your first use of the Right mouse button.

Here is what a right-click looks like:

Clicking the Right mouse button will, in general, generate a pop-down menu. This menu will change depending on what the pointer is over when you do the right click. (This is called "context sensitive".)

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4) When you do a Right click on the desktop, one of the menus is New. If you put the pointer over that menu it "cascades" to a number of options, one of which is New Folder

5) Highlight the New Folder menu item and, to select that menu item, do a Left click on the mouse. (You use the Right click to generate the menu but a Left click to select an item on a menu.)

All this looks like this:

This will create a folder on the spot where you started the right-click.

6) By default, the name is selected (see that the text is black / highlighted / selected and the name has a box around it). Whatever you type now will replace that text. Edit the name as you will and hit the Enter key so the system knows you're done naming it.

You can now drag this folder onto another folder, drag files and folder onto this icon, etc.

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