EX NO:

FOLDER OPERATIONS

Aim:-

To perform various folder operations such as creation,deletion,renaming,hiding,searching etc.

Procedure:To create a new folder:-

i) In the left pane, click the drive or folder in which you want to create the new folder. ii) Click any free area in the right pane. A context menu will appear. iii) Highlight New. iv) Click Folder. v) Type a name for the folder.

To copy a file or folder:-

i) Right-click the file or folder you want to copy. A context menu will appear. ii) Click Copy. The file or folder should now be on the Clipboard.

To cut a file or folder:-

i) Right-click the file or folder you want to cut. A context menu will appear. ii) Click Cut. The file or folder should now be on the Clipboard.

CUT OPERATION

To paste a file or folder:i) After cutting or copying the file, right-click the object or right-click in the right pane of the folder to which you want to paste. A context menu will appear. ii) Click Paste.

PASTE OPERATION

To rename a file or folder:-

i) Right-click the file or folder. A context menu will appear. ii) Click Rename. iii) Type the new name.

RENAMING OPERATION

To change the view:-

Windows Explorer provides you with the following choices: Thumbnails, Tiles, Icons, List, and Details. i) Right-click any free area in the right pane. A context menu will appear. ii) Highlight View. iii) Select the view you want from the drop-down menu.
Thumbnails view:- Displays images. These images represent the contents of folders and

files. For example, if a folder contains pictures, up to four of the pictures in the folder will be displayed on the folder icon.

THUMBNAILS VIEW

Tiles view :- Display icons to represent drives, folders, and the contents of folders. The

icons displayed when you choose Tiles view are larger than the icons that display when you choose Icon view.

List view:- Displays all of the files and folders without supplying the size, type, or date

modified.

Details view:-Displays the size, type, and date modified.

Properties of a folder:-

Properties of a folder gives complete details about the folder such as i) Size ii) Type iii) Date of creation etc.

Hiding a folder:-

i) Select the folder which the user want to hide ii)Right clik on the folder and then choose properties iii) In the properties click Hidden option and click apply and Ok

To see the hidden folders :-

By cliking the show hidden files and folder options all hidden folders will be displayed as given below

The user can change the hidden option by selecting the folder and then click properties and then unselect the hidden option and clik aplly and ok the folder will be now displayed in default view.
To delete a file or folder:-

i) Right-click the file or folder you want to delete. A context menu will appear. ii) Click Delete. Windows Explorer will ask, "Are sure you want to send this object to the recycle bin?" iii) Click Yes.

The folder will not deleted permanently from the computer to delete the folder completely goto recycle bin and then click delete the folder

Finding Files in Windows XP:-

i) Click your Start button in the bottom left corner of your Desktop ii) From the menu that pops up, locate the Search item (in the blue section on the right, at the bottom) iii) Click on Search When you click on Search, you'll get the following window popping up.

(If you see an animated dog, and it's annoying you, you can turn it off by clicking it with the right mouse button. Then click "turn off animated character".) Under "What do you want to search for" click the option "All files and folders". You should see the following:

You are given a number of different option to conduct your search. Click inside the top text box, under "All or part of the file name". Enter the name of the file, then click the Search button. (Just enter a few lettters of the file name, if you can't remeber exactly what it's called.) Windows XP will start the search, and you'll see something like this:

In the image above we're searching for a file called "wp projects". If XP finds any files or folders with your search term in it, it will display them in the window to the right. In the image below XP has found two folders with our search term in the name.

Even though we typed all our letters in lowercase, the folders found have capital letters in them. In others words, the search is not case sensitive. Notice in the picture that under the heading "In Folder" it says "C" and "My Documents". These are the two place where the folders are. So we have a folder called "My WP Projects" in the "My Documents" folder of the hard drive, and we also have one called wpProjects. This one is in the main C:\ root folder. You can open any of the files or folders found simply by double clicking on them. But double click a file or folder under the "Name" heading of the Window, and not the "In Folder" heading. Finally, to get rid of the Search Window, click the red X in the top right corner of the box.

Result:-

Thus the folder operations such as creation,deletion,cut,copy,paste,searching,hiding are successrfully finished and the output was verified.