Compressing Folders and Formatting drives

Compressing folders is a very straight forward process and is excellent for faster uploading and downloading of files, as it will compress folders into one file, so if you take the example of an email, you can upload one zipped folder with forty pictures on it, as opposed to just having to upload 40 pictures individually to attach to the email


I am now going to show you the simple steps of how you would do this.

I'm not sure if you can see in the image but the file is 1,011KB. before compression

What your going to want to do is right-click on your mouse and select send to and then compressed folder
After clicking this zipped folder appeared just under the other file with a size of 603KB, which is a reduction of nearly 40%, which I think is a good reduction size.

Benefits

As I said before compressing files can cut file size significantly, and will mean that uploading onto a website or even attaching files to an email will take less time, also the person who receives the email with the attachment will have shorter downloading speed with the file being smaller

Drive Formatting

This could be anything from a hard drive to a floppy disk! What you want to do is click on my computer and then right-click on the drive that you wish to format!

A menu will appear and ask you what you would wish to etc.., once you click OK a warning message will appear asking if your are sure that you want to format the drive as all data will be erased.

Copying File to CD

Copying files to CD is a very simple process and there are many different types of software that you can use. There is software available for download on the Internet that is just for burning data to CD. Also many music applications have Burn functions including Windows Media Player, ITunes and Winamp

Obviously for you to be to complete a task like this you will need a CD-RW connected to your machine, keeping in mind that CD-RW drives can also be external and connected through a USB drive

I will show a few quick steps on how burn a CD using windows media player, it is a very simple process and it will not take very long to explain.

In windows media player there is a burn tab, once selecting this it will look like this

I'm not quite sure whether you can see this in the picture, but it say to insert a burner and to restart, unfortunately the computer that I am working on does not have a CD burner installed in it, so I will not be able to show you how to perform a CD Burn graphically. If you look to the right hand side of the picture, its says drag items here, these items are the music that you wish to burn, when you drag them into this area you can then just click the start burn button, this will then begin the burning of the CD, and then you pretty much you just have to wait to for the CD finishing burning and all files will copied to the CD