Four new ways to put Windows to work - Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating environment

Home Office Computing, June, 1993 by Kay Yarborough Nelson

TIP OF THE MONTH

If you know people who use Macintoshes, you may have heard them bragging about something mysteriously called an "alias." This feature lets Mac owners put copies of icons in several different places on their hard-disk drives, making their files and programs more accessible and easier to find. Well, Windows lets you use aliases, too, only they're called copies of icons. To copy icons into other groups, press Ctrl, click on the icon, and drag it to another group while holding the Ctrl key down. For example, you can put a copy of your favorite word-processing program in the groups you work with every day or put a Calculator icon in groups where you need to make quick calculations. Don't worry; these icon copies aren't real copies of the program they represent, so they won't take up huge amounts of space on your hard disk.

KAY YARBOROUGH NELSON is the author of Friendly Windows (Bantam), Voodoo Windows, Voodoo DOS, and Voodoo WordPerfect (all three from Ventana Press).