putting photos onto a thumb drive, step-by-step

 My friend Dora, from peppylady, was wondering about putting photos ono a thumb drive, so I put this together for her and anyone else who might want to know.

Please note that I am working on a PC laptop (not a Mac) and running Windows 10. 

Thumb drive also applies to flashdrive, usb stick, or anything else you might call these little information carriers. They also hold movies, lots of movies :)

 open the "pictures" folder on your computer

locate the little folder icon in the top corner, unless yours is located somewhere else

click on that to create a new folder which you then label 'thumb drive' or anything else you want to call it as long as you remember what you called it.

have your empty thumb drive ready, I like these tiny little ones

this is what the other side looks like, this one is a 32GB size, holds HEAPS!

plug it into the usb port on your laptop, not all laptops have the usb ports on the left hand side. (If you have a desktop I don't know where you would plug it in, but you should have a usb port somewhere)

this screen appears where your pictures folder was

at the top you can see the thumb drive is now called USB drive D. 

on the menu down the left hand side click on "pictures"

to get your pictures page back. Find the picture you want to transfer and hover the cursor so the background is highlighted

to select more than one picture at a time, keep the cursor on the first one then hold down your control key while you hover over other pictures you want to transfer

when you have selected your pictures and they are all highlighted, keep the cursor on the last one and you can release the control key

and right click your mouse or mousepad if you have a laptop

to get this menu. hover over "Send to" (hover, do not click) and another menu appears

there at the bottom is your USB Drive D    Click on that,

and a pop up window appears with the progress as your photos load onto your thumb drive

when the progress is finished, unplug your thumb drive

and close down the pictures folder so all you have is your chosen "desktop background" picture, or nothing if you don't have a picture there. Mine is a photo of our Glenelg Beach taken by "no-one"

now plug your thumb drive back in

and here is the menu of photos you loaded, double click on the first one to see it

there it is :)

on the right hand side of your screen, right near the edge,  is a small arrow, only visible once you hover your cursor there

it should say "next", click on that to see

your second photo

your third photo

your fourth photo (I had five but seem to have missed one)

when there are no more photos to view the arrow disappears

I hope I have made this simple enough, I'm sure there are other methods, some faster, with shortcuts, but I think step-by-step is best when first learning to do something.