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EXPANDING ALL FOLDERS IN EXPLORER

When you have the Windows Explorer running, the left pane shows a folder view of your hard drive(s), floppy drive, CD ROM, etc. A "+" (plus sign) shows next to each folder that has a subfolder, or a hierarchy of them, underneath it. You can click on the plus sign to expand the list of subfolders (and then the plus sign will change to a minus sign, which you can click in order to close up the expansion.) If you wanted to expand all folders on your hard drive at once, there's a neat trick that will accomplish that: you click once on the drive you want to expand, in order to select that drive, and then you type the asterisk key ("*") on your numeric keypad. (The other asterisk key, which you type by holding down the Shift key while pressing "8", will not work.)