Home Folder's equivalent in Windows?

Hi dissolved,

Your hard drive icon on a Mac is equivalent to the C: drive. You can have more than one, equivalent to a D; drive, etc. An inserted optical disk shows up too, like the "floating" CD drive letter in Windows.

Applications are in an Applications folder, similar to the Program Files folder in Windows.

The home folder is equivalent to the Windows folder named for your account in Documents and Settings. It's for anything private to you and not shared with other users of the computer. For most people that's only documents, photos, etc. But you can put applications in your home folder if you use something no one else does and want to keep it that way.

There is an equivalent to My Computer, though the Mac version includes less information.

Good luck!

John

Hi dissolved, I can't help you directly because I was never a Windows user but there are some good support articles, on-line tutorials and books.

Switch 101 can answer a lot of your questions. There are free Tiger tutorials here. Also, at your bookstore, "Mac OS X Tiger, The Missing Manual" by David Pogue.

Good luck with you new Mac!


-mj
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