Where is CD Drive?

In previous lessons I was trying to explain the different types of disk drives. The last type of disk drive is called the CD Drive that you place CD Roms in. Let me show you a picture of the drive with a CD Rom in it.For my computer the E drive is my CD rom drive. How did I figure that out?You can either...

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What is an Operating System?

What is an Operating System? The operating system of your computer is the is the MOST important program, and basically the backbone of your computer. We deal with Windows PC's on this blog, and your operating system can be called:Windows VistaWindows XPWindows 2000Windows MEWindows 98Windows 95Those are some of the names that seem to be the most popular for operating systems software for your computer....

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What is a Disk Drive? Where is the C Drive?

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,...

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What is a Floppy disk drive? A Drive?

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...

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Where is 'My Computer' located?

  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...

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What is a scrollbar?

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...

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What Version of Internet Explorer do I have?

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...

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