How 2 Use
My Computer Windows XP
Double click the MY COMPUTER
icon located on your desktop.
I will click on the DATA
(D:) drive and then click the FILE option from the tool bar.
Under the FILE option you
will see several options.
OPEN if selected will open
the D: drive to allow me to view the files it contains
as shown below.
I will choose EXPLORE.
Once EXPLORE has been
selected I am given dual windows. The left side is the FOLDERS and the
Right side is the NAME list
of the files.
The third option is the
SEARCH.
A new box appears and I can
search with many options.
I will jump to the SHARING
AND SECURITY option.
I will have many options to
choose from.
If I select DO NOT SHARE
THIS FOLDER then anyone needing access to my files will be denied. This is not
recommended since it is an
entire drive instead of a folder.
You can see in the SHARE
NAME box it shows the D$ is shared. This is normal and you will find this on
your C$ drive also. These
have been shared for Administrative purposes so it is best to leave this alone.
In the COMMENT you can see
this is a DEFAULT SHARE which is created by the system
during its creation.
The USER LIMIT allows you to
leave the MAXIMUM ALLOWED set or switch to the ALLOW THIS NUMBER OF USERS.
If you select ALLOW THIS
NUMBER OF USERS you will need to decide on a number of users who can connect to
your share.
If you click PERMISSION you
can decide who has access to the folder over the network by choosing names
of the users available.
If you click the CACHING you
can setup the ability to access files offline.
If you click the NEW SHARE
you can create a new SHARE NAME, set PERMISSIONS on the new share
and set the USER LIMIT.
Selecting the NEW SHARE will
give you the box above.
We will jump back to the FILE
options and select FORMAT.
This will erase the drive
you have selected.
Be careful with this one
unless you do not need the data anymore.
If you click CREATE SHORTCUT
while you have a drive highlighted the system
Will ask if you want to create
a shortcut on the desktop.
This can be convenient since
you would have quick access to the drive.
This is the box wanting to
create the desktop shortcut.
Selecting YES will only
create a shortcut on the desktop.
If you select RENAME it will
allow you to rename the drive.
This could be done if you
are going to allow users access to the drive via shared and
they need to know what
machine they are accessing.
The final one is PROPERTIES.
This will give you plenty of
information about your hard drive or partition which is shown here.
I will not go into these
tabs at this time. You will find these in another task list on our site.
This completes the task.