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NAVIGATING THE DIRECTORY TREE WITH CURSOR KEYS

Besides moving up and down the directory tree in Explorer with the mouse, you can also use the cursor keys. The left arrow takes you back from the current directory to the "parent" directory (one hierarchical level up), and the right arrow moves in the opposite direction. Thus, suppose you were in a directory whose full path name is "\Games\Board Games\Chess"; if you pushed the left arrow you would then be in the "\Games\Board Games" directory, and pushing the right arrow next would put you back to "\Games\Board Games\Chess". (Yes, you can have a directory named "Board Games"; remember that directory and file names in Win9x/ME can have up to 255 characters including spaces!)