How to Create a New Folder

When you first turn your computer on, you'll see a bustle of activity on your screen while the machine boots up. Eventually you'll see your desktop. The desktop appears as a collection of small pictures, called "icons," arranged on the background.

These icons probably cluster along the left-hand side of your screen and include My Computer, the Recycle Bin, and others. We're mostly concerned with My Computer, which houses all the files on-- you guessed it - your computer.

Let's create a folder for your screenplays.

	Double-click on the icon labeled My Computer. You'll probably find it in the top left-hand corner of the screen.
	In the new window that opens, you'll see more icons. One of these is probably called (C:). That's your hard drive, the big disk on which you store both files and software. Double-click the (C:) icon

	The icons in the window change. In Windows 95, you'll see a line of text across the top of the window, something like this: My Computer/(C:). That tells you where you are: Within the umbrella of My Computer, you are inside the (C:) disk. In Windows 98 you'll see the My Computer icon and the words My Computer
	Double-click on the My Documents icon. The icons in the window change again, and the line of text will update to My Computer/(C:)/My Documents for Windows 95 users. In Windows 98, you'll see the My Documents icon and the words My Documents.
	Within My Documents you might already have a few folders, but you need a new one in which to save the five movie scripts you are working on. You can create the new folder in two ways:

	Position your cursor over a blank space in the window and press the right-hand mouse button. Hold it down. Now move the cursor over the word New. Choose Folder from the list of choices that appears. A picture of a folder, with its text box highlighted, will show up in the icon area of the window. Type "Screenplays" (without the quotation marks) into the text box and press Enter.
	Move your cursor to the File menu and hold the mouse button down. From the list of choices that show up, select New; in the new list of choices that appears, click Folder. A picture of a folder, with its text box highlighted, will show up in the icon area of the window. Type "Screenplays" (without the quotation marks) into the text box and press Enter.

Now whenever you work on a script you can save it within the Screenplays folder. Talk about organized!

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