Your My Documents folder is the heart of everything that you create. It's where you store your photos, your letters, your addresses, phone numbers, music, bits about this, bits about that. Keeping this 'tidy' is essential if you want to be able to find something easily.

Look upon this main folder as being a filing cabinet. You wouldn't just sling loads of paperwork into a filing cabinet (Would You??), and expect to find that one piece of information quickly if you needed it.

How to keep it tidy is simple. Just as you would have folders alphabetically situated in a filing cabinet to contain different categories of information, so you do in My Documents.

The first thing you notice when you open Windows Explorer (a quick way is to press the Windows Logo key and the letter 'E') is that you have a long list that is already installed in My Documents. My Music, My Received Files, My Photos, etc. These need tidying up for a start!

1. Highlight the My Documents folder. Now click on File in the top left-hand corner.

2. Choose New, and then Folder.

3. Down in the right-hand pane has appeared a new folder which should be highlighted and ready to Rename. I suggest you call this something obvious, like "Everything", because it is where everything is going to be stored.

(If by chance the words "New Folder" are not highlighted, you need to right-click on the folder and choose Rename)

Now you see something that should look like this:

Left click on each of the folders in the right-hand pane in turn, hold the button down and drag it across until it has highlighted the "Everything" folder......... then let go of the button. You have dragged and dropped the folder to its new location.

You can do this with everything you create. Simply create a new folder for each of your categories using steps 1 - 3 (and calling the folder by an appropriate name) and then storing information in each separate folder.

Incidentally, for such things as Photos, where you want to keep the one's from your holiday separate from cousin John's wedding, just open the My Photos folder, make sure it is highlighted in the LEFT pane, and that nothing else is highlighted, then follow steps 1 - 3 and call the folder what the subject matter is. This is a SUB-FOLDER, and you find it within the main folder, in this case, My Photos.

See the section on Backing Up which covers information about your My Documents.