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What is a Disk Drive? Yesterday when I was writing about the floppy drive or A drive I mentioned they are basically storage units! As I mentioned most of the time computers will have 3 main drives. The A Drive as went over yesterday is the Floppy Disk Drive. A C Drive that we will talk about today, and later we will go into CD-Rom drives. SURE Computers CAN have more than 3 drives, and I want to try to hit the basics first! Today we want to talk about the C Drive or Hard Disk Drive. The Hard drive is INSIDE your computer so you don't have to use a disk or CD rom. Below is a picture of what it looks like. Earlier we had gone over what 'my computer' was, and if you look at the pictures you will see the drives and their letters. Its basically the names of the drives that the computer uses. As you can see the A drive is the floppy disk drive. (B Drives can be floppy disks also!) C Drive, D Drive, E Drive in the picture look like Hard Drives. Normally C drive is your ...

What is a Floppy disk drive? What is A Drive? Disk drives are part of your computer that actually stores your information - at times externally (outside the computer). At times you will get these disks that contain programs that you can load into your computer to use. Other times if you have a file (maybe a letter, spreadsheet, etc) that you would like to share with someone else you can copy this information onto a disk for the party to load onto their computer. I guess the short and the sweet version of disk drives? They are storage units! Today we are going to show you what a Floppy Disk Drive, or 'A DRIVE' is! Most computers have at least 3 disk drives, but some can have more or less. Your computer names those drives to identify them. Most of the time you will see see A, C and D drives. Normally if you see a B drive its additional floppy drive. Floppy Drives look similar to this: The slit may be horizontal or vertical depending on how your computer is setup. The above happe...

  Where is 'My Computer' Located, and what is 'My Computer'?   Today’s How-To Guide For the Computer Beginner is locating the My Computer Icon, and what the ‘My Computer’ is!   NOTE:   Some newer versions of windows does not have the 'my computer' icons on their desktop, and we will go over how to place it there.    Lastly, also note in newer versions of window (Ie Vista, 7) they call it just ‘ computer ’ not ‘my computer’ We will start with the older versions of windows, and then move to the newer versions. Starting with some versions of Microsoft Windows 95 and included with all versions of Windows after that included 'My Computer'. My Computer allows the user to explore the contents of their computer drives (IE: C drive , A Drive , Etc) as well as manage their computer files. Below are some common icon's you will see for your 'my computer' which should be on your desktop!  Once we locate this on our d...

What is a scroll bar? Look to the left side of your screen, and you will see the scrollbar as well as the scroll arrow and scroll box. Below is an image of a scrollbar and I identified the parts for you. The scrollbar on the right enables you to scroll up the screen and scroll down the screen. At times you will also see a scrollbar along the bottom of your screen as well. This allows you to scroll your screen to the left and scroll your screen to the right. It basically brings you to areas of your screen that are hidden from view. The scroll bar has a scroll box inside of that. If you wish to go to the top or the bottom of the screen that is NOT in view you would place your mouse pointer over that scroll box, and then hold it down and your glide your mouse up and down. The scroll arrow is nice when you have a VERY long page, and you want to go directly to the top or the bottom of the page you are using quickly. Click on the scroll arrow direction you wish, and you will scroll directly ...

From time to time people need to know what version of internet explorer they are using, but don't know where to look. At the top of your internet explorer browser window (you are reading this site in a browser window) you may see a question mark (blue arrow) or you need go to the left edge of the browser screen to find the button that looks similar to two arrows '>>' (red arrow). You are looking for your help button in your internet explorer browser. HIT the help button! You then normally have some options under the help section, and you are looking for 'About Internet Explorer'. Click your 'about internet explorer' button, and a window similiar to the one below should open. What Internet Explorer Version do you have? Hmmmm. Looks like we have version 6.0 pictured above! what version of internet explorer do I have, what version of internet explorer am I using,

Where is the control panel located on computer?   Today’s How-To Computer Beginner lesson will be How do I find my control panel on my computer.   What is the control panel on the computer?     The control panel is a place on your computer where you can change or set your computer settings.  It could things like how fast my mouse clicks, what printer to use, how my desktop will look, adjusting your sound for your system.  In some ways you can look at it as a ‘control center’ of your computer.   I will show you where the control panel is located in older versions like Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and then windows XP and Control panel in Windows Vista or Seven (7). For the older versions of windows you need to: 1. Start button 2. Programs 3. Accessories 4. System tools = under system tools you will see control panel   On some older systems you can find your control panel ...