How to Rename a File or Folder

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org. We're located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we're here talking about using Microsoft Windows. Now, what I want to talk to you about is how to rename a file or folder. This is a very simple process and I'm going to show you two ways on how to do that right now. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. One of the easiest ways to rename a file or folder is first of all to find a file or folder. While we've got this this video here, this HD opener video on the desktop, I might as well show you how this is to be done. There are a couple ways to do this. One, the easiest way, is to right click on the the the file or folder, scroll down to where it says Rename; click Rename, which now highlights your text. Now, you can either delete the entire thing by hitting backspace or you can re-click on it and just erase an individual word or or you can even, you know, add in text from where you left off. You know, that that's the easiest way to do it, so we can type this in as you know Renamed File, and we hit enter. There's our file renamed. Now, if we want to rename this file again there's another way. You hold your mouse over where the text is, you click once to highlight it and click twice, a second time to bring up where you're able to type. So now we can rename it again. We can say Renamed File #2, and hit enter. There's our newly renamed file. Of course, if you go into the start menu; let's go to My Documents and change a folder. So this is the same process. For example My Videos; if we want to change that to you know Mike's Videos we'd right click on it, scroll down to where it says Rename, type in our text Mike's Videos, hit enter. We have just successfully renamed our folder. The other way to do it; left click on the text, left click again. If you left click too fast it'll actually open that folder, so you want to make sure you left click slowly. Now, what we're going to do is change it right back to My Videos, hit enter. We have successfully changed the name of that folder. So, that's how you change the name of any file or folder if you need to."