PC Magazine - 2009 11.pdf - Libertad Zero

sOLutions office/OSMake the Mostof Win 7 LibrariesBefore your new operating system can be useful, you need tounderstand how it organizes your data. By Neil RandallWindows 7 has its shareof highly visible userinterface tweaks. Aftergetting past the oohsand aahs of the spiffeduptaskbar, you’ll likely find the new look ofgood old Explorer the most dramatic difference.Click the Windows Explorer iconon the taskbar, or open Computer from theStart menu, and you’ll get a window thatdisplays not only the standard expandablehard drive labels but also a new featurecalled Libraries.Win 7 Libraries are, in effect, metafolders.The idea behind them is simple: We havemassive hard drives with files scattered allover the place, and organizing our resourcesby hard drive and folders (which are alwaystied to a hard drive) is inefficient. Like Vista,Win 7 provides a Favorites system to helpwith organization—you drag a folder tothe Navigation pane, creating a link to thatfolder—but Libraries carries organization animportant level further.Win 7 ships with four libraries already inplace: Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos.Of course, Vista and XP included folderscalled Documents or My Documents, Musicthe library conceptEach library in your Windows7 system groups similar filesthat can exist anywhere in yoursystem, or on your network.70 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION NOVEMBER 2009