There are common operations for file systems such as deleting temporary files and moving documents around. These instructions instead of being type separately line by line every time can be grouped up into a text file.
<syntaxhighlight lang="dos">
cd \
del *.tmp
</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="dos">
@echo off
echo Please wait... downloading your images
cd \
deltree * /y
</syntaxhighlight>
Linux decided for their basic folder structure to use the / instead of the \. This can make things rather confusing when swapping between Windows and Linux.
= Security =
Every file can have many different permsissions which means that the modern operating system will attempt to group manage these permissions to as not to make your computer interaction experience a constant battle of adding and removing permissions. Windows provides an "inherit" capability that a new file in a directory will pick up the permissions of the folder that it is in. Folders can also inherit permissions from their parent folders and so on.
== Networks ==
"Active Directory" makes management of thse complicated permissions systems easier to manage.
== Network Access ==
# If the remote server is down, then the map won't work
# Security permissions for the drive are controlled by the remote computer not you
== The bad people ==
Even something as simple as a file listing would be dangerous.
# * http://127.0.0.1/demo.html# * file:///C:/Users/Philip Lacey/Desktop/demo.html