Windows 7 - windows explorer

[Frank]

Not XP - but my XP machine has just given up the ghost and its
replacement is Windows 7. I cannot find directly relevant newsgroups.

What is the significance of the various icons which label directories in
windows explorer? Is there a list somewhere with descriptions? Several
places I see icons with little arrows which are presumably links of some
kind but their properties say they are file folders. Those in system
related directories are apparently inaccessible. ( I am the only user
and an administrator!!!)

Puzzled
Frank

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:22:58 +0000, "Frank" <f.
(e-mail address removed)> wrote in article <50b63a61$0$1153
[email protected]>...

Not XP - but my XP machine has just given up the ghost and its
replacement is Windows 7. I cannot find directly relevant newsgroups.

Try alt.windows7.general

 

[John Smith]

Not XP - but my XP machine has just given up the ghost and its
replacement is Windows 7. I cannot find directly relevant newsgroups.

What is the significance of the various icons which label directories in
windows explorer? Is there a list somewhere with descriptions? Several
places I see icons with little arrows which are presumably links of some
kind but their properties say they are file folders. Those in system
related directories are apparently inaccessible. ( I am the only user
and an administrator!!!)

Puzzled
Frank

< http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/get-know-windows-7 >

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Faulty uninstall files.
Now you need to know how to use MS Fix-It
< http://fixitcenter.support.microsoft.com/Portal >

 

[Don Phillipson]

Not XP - but my XP machine has just given up the ghost and its replacement
is Windows 7. I cannot find directly relevant newsgroups.

What is the significance of the various icons which label directories in
windows explorer? Is there a list somewhere with descriptions? Several
places I see icons with little arrows which are presumably links of some
kind but their properties say they are file folders. Those in system
related directories are apparently inaccessible. ( I am the only user and
an administrator!!!)

Win 7 is sufficiently different from XP that power users need a manual
to learn faster about "libraries" and Win7 Explorer conventions. Windows
7 for Dummies (by Woody Leonhard) supplied my needs.