Thursday 2 May 2013

24. Copying pictures from a CD or Memory Stick


1. Start by creating a new folder to hold those pictures. Open the Start menu and click Pictures (or My Pictures) to see the contents of your Pictures folder.

 2.Right-click a blank space in the window and choose New > Folder. A new folder icon will appear in the window, with its name (‘New Folder’) highlighted: type any name you like for the folder and press Enter to confirm it.

3.Now double-click that new folder to open it. Since it’s a new folder, and still empty, you’ll see a bare window. Keep this window open as you follow the remaining steps.

 4.Insert the CD (or DVD or Memory Stick etc.) containing the photos you’ve received and, after a few seconds, you may see an AutoPlay dialog. If you do, choose Open folder to view files, and you’ll see another window which shows the contents of the CD. If you don’t see an AutoPlay dialog, open the Start menu and click Computer (or My Computer), then right-click the icon for your CD drive in the window that appears and choose Open.

 5.In the window displaying the CD’s contents, click any file or folder and then press Ctrl+A to select all the files and folders in that window. Next, press Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard.

 6.Now switch back to the window you were using in the first three steps, which shows your new, empty folder. In this window, press Ctrl+V to paste the files currently on the clipboard into this folder. Windows will start copying the files from your CD and you’ll see them gradually appear in this folder.

 7.Once all the files have been copied, and the little dialog showing the copying progress has disappeared, you’ve finished. You can close the window displaying the CD’s contents, eject the CD, and either look through the copies of the photos that are now in that new folder on your PC, or close that window too.

You have successfully copied the photos onto your PC and they may now be viewed individually or as a slide show using Windows Photo Viewer. To do this, right-click on one of the photo files and choose Preview from the menu.

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