A. Try pressing the Alt key. The path to the setting to turn on/off the underlines is: Right click on an open space on the desktop, click on Properties > Appearance tab > Effects button. The bottom choice is “Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until I press the Alt key.” Uncheck the box if you want the underlines to show.

If you’re not familiar with the purpose of the single underlined letter in the menus, try experimenting with the menus of different programs. Most of the time, it’s necessary to hold down the Alt key to navigate. For example, you want to organize the files in My Documents into folders for different topics. To do this you need to use Microsoft’s file manager—Microsoft Explorer; right click on Start and click Explore. Scroll to My Documents and click once. In the right-hand pane will show all your files and any folders that may have been created previously. Click in the open area of the right-hand pane to put the cursor there. Now you could mouse up to the Menu bar and click on File, then Ne w, then Folder to create a new folder and type in a name; however, you can also hold down the Alt key on the keyboard and press one at a time the keys F W F. (As you press the keys, the menus drop down.) Presto, you have a folder ready to name. You can drag and drop the file into the folder--click on the filename, hold down the left mouse button and roll the file over to the folder. Releasing the left mouse button “drops” or moves the file into the folder. If the files and the folder aren’t close, you can click Edit—Cut the file and then click Edit—Paste the file into the folder. Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl X (Cut, as in scissors) and Ctrl V (Paste or View) work also.

A. Open My Computer and double click on the C: drive to open it. Follow the procedure described above to create a new folder and name it Downloads. Right click on the folder and drag it onto the desktop (the main screen you see when Windows has booted), let up on the right mouse button and either click on Create shortcuts here or press the S key. When the shortcut is highlighted, or selected, you can right click and Rena me or press the M key to get rid of the words “Shortcut to”.

Now that you have the main folder and shortcut created, double clicking on the desktop shortcut will open the folder for you to save your downloaded files. Sometimes it’s really difficult to distinguish which files are which from the name alone or there may be several related files that should be together so it’s wise to create folders named for their contents within the Downloads folder. You can use the exact same technique to create these folders.