Maintaining an organized computer requires a good deal of goodwill. I am sure that if I came to see your desktop I would find a chaos of icons and files where it is impossible to understand something.
For this Navigaweb, with the support of Windows, want to meet you for a more organized file and folder management .
One of the most important and best features of the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (also in Windows 10) are the collections (in English the libraries). In this article I would like to explain what collections and favorites are but above all how they should be used to highlight their importance in computer management.
These collections are a novelty of only Windows 7 and Windows 10 and, although no one would have thought that they could serve, using them one wonders how it could have been done, up to now, without them. Collections consist of a way of viewing content from multiple consolidated folders in a single point of view. They provide a central place to manage files that are located in different folders on the computer. So instead of clicking through long paths and directories to find the files you want to launch, you understand them in a collection and do it first.
To access the Windows 7 collections, the folder-shaped key should already be present at the bottom of the taskbar; otherwise you can find them as an icon on the desktop browsing the files with explorer resources.
The default libraries in Windows 7 are documents, music, images and videos so, at any time, from Windows Explorer, you can access one of these collections because they are clickable on the left bar.
For example, opening the document library opens the Documents folder with all the files stored inside it.
However, if you have other files in different folders which are also documents but you don't want to mix them with the others, you can, without moving the files, insert them in the document library . This method is different from creating an upper folder that encompasses others because the collections are only not real logical groupings and are much more comfortable to manage to stay in order and organized.
To add a folder to an existing collection, you can right-click on this folder and select the "Include in collection" item. This does not move, only that its contents are displayed together with others in the chosen collection. Any folder can be included in a collection by pressing the button located at the top, next to the Organize button.
Each collection can therefore contain files that are located in different folders, in different partitions or on different disks.
To delete a folder from a collection without deleting it from the computer, right-click on it and select "remove from collection" (if you press delete, it is deleted from the computer and goes to the trash).
To create new collections just open the main folder, right click and then choose "new" and give it a name.
The first time this is opened, you will be asked to include at least one folder inside by choosing it from the usual resource explorer.
Thus the files included in that folder will be displayed in the new collection.
As you will have understood, while on XP the fast links were fixed and it was just the Windows folders such as Documents, Desktop and so on, now, on Windows 7 and Windows 10, you can create the groupings you want, with custom names and which also include multiple folders inside.
Inside a collection you can also add any disk resource or USB sticks and external disks but not network paths in case the PC is connected to a network with multiple computers.
To do this you need to use a tool called Win7 Library Tool that allows you to create collections even with network paths .
The collections, as I see it, are very comfortable and extremely useful when, for example, you have different images or music in folders of different users of the computer and you want to group them all together or if the photos are stored in USB and hard pens external disks, to always view them by pressing images and therefore without looking for them.
However, if the collections are to be disabled, just download this registry key and apply it.
Similar to the collections are the favorites that are to be understood as those of an internet explorer. While multiple folders can be placed in the library, each favorite is a single folder which is added to the left menu for quick access . To add a folder to your favorites, you navigate inside and then right-click on the favorites icon to "Add current route to favorites". To remove folders from favorites instead just press the right mouse button and choose the removal option (this will obviously not be deleted from the computer but only from the favorites list).
Going back to the organization of the computer and folders, in case there is confusion, a tool to move files automatically to precise folders, based on the extension, should be useful.
For the same purpose and with some more criteria you can use a tool called Belvedere .
The reverse operation, i.e. how to move subfolder files into one can be done with another tool called Suction .
Hoping that now your computer will be more orderly and that it has convinced you that Windows 7 is a cut above the others, since I never do, I thank you with "best wishes" in postcard style!
