Get a photo back from a USB drive

Step by step

1. Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
2. Click "File Explorer". In the menu that opened, click the "File Explorer" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
3. Open "". In the left column of File Explorer, click "": it is the USB drive.
4. Click "Family picnic.png" once. Click once on the photo "Family picnic.png".
5. Click "Copy". On the top bar, click "Copy".
6. Open "Pictures". In the column on the left of the File Explorer window (the list of your places), click "Pictures". The big area on the right then shows what is inside that folder.
7. Click "Paste". Click "Paste": the photo is back in your Pictures folder.
8. Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "File Explorer" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.

These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

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