DRAG and DROP

byTed Peterson
Everyone has heard the term "Drag & Drop" or some thing like that, when the person was talking about computers. I will now tell my students what this means, how to do it, and what happens when the person works with this.
Drag and drop is a means of transferring a file, program, picture, etc. from one place to another place or file in your computer. It can be from one drive to another drive, one file to another file on the same drive, from one computer to another computer.
I will now set up some ideas. Say that you have one computer with a C and D hard drive, a Zip drive, a CD reader, and a floppy. You have all types of files, programs, pictures, etc on all of them and it is mixed up. You would like to be able to have like items together and also move some items from another computer. You need a way to fix this.
You can change or correct this easily by using the drag and drop procedure. Say you want to move a folder from disk drive D to disk drive C, you can do this easy. First you will need to have 2 listing of all the drives on your screen. This can be had 2 different ways. One way is to go to your desk top and click twice on MY Computer. You will then have 2 different screens. The other way is to hold down the flag key on your keyboard and then click on the "e" key. After both screens are side by side (you may have to move one over) you will set one up for C Drive and one up for D drive (they can be either way). Then click of the file disk that has the old file or program and the other on the disk space for where you want to move it to. Then click once on the file or folder that you want to copy and then holding down on the mouse key move the curser to the spot you want it to be at. When you let go of the mouse key you will find that a copy is then on the new drive.
When you copy from one drive to another (C-D, etc) you will have a copy on both drive. If you click twice you will move and only have the file or folder on the new drive.
When you want to move a file or folder around the same drive Number (C or D, etc) you will only need one listing of the drives. Also when you copy an item around one drive it will move the file or folder only, There will be no copy at the old place.
One new thing. You do not have to open a folder, etc. to drop a new file , etc into it. Drop the file, etc on top of the folder, etc. and the file will then be inside that folder. This will save some time.
If you have a folders with a large number of files in it and you would like to break it up in sections, you can do this by drag and drop. Go to My Computer and click of that folders so you will have a listing of all the files in that folder. Click on the Right mouse key, in a blank space, and a new menu will drop down. Click on new listing and a new menu will drop down and at that point click on "folders". At that point enter what you would like the first section to be called. Then do the same for what you want the next group to be called. etc. At that point move the files into the new folders by dropping them onto the top of the new folder names. Check this out and you will fine that it works.
This will work on copying any thing from C - D, Zip - C, CD - Zip, Floppy -C etc. It will work any place on you computer.
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