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Memory: explorer-new-folder-desktop

Overview

Create a named folder on the desktop through the desktop's own context menu. Use this when a new container is wanted on the desktop and the work is being done by pointing. The route right-clicks empty desktop space, follows the New submenu to Folder, types the name and commits it with Return. The recorded trace leaves a folder named Archive on the desktop.

Prerequisites

• A desktop environment with a file manager, or a shell.
• A destination that exists and is writable, and that is the active target when the creation command is issued. The keyboard route creates the folder inside whatever container currently has focus, which is not always the one on screen.
• The folder's name decided in advance, including capitalisation.
• No existing folder of that name at the destination. Creating over one is refused by the shell and quietly turned into a differently-named folder by the file manager.
• For the desktop specifically: the desktop reachable as a container. It behaves as a folder for this purpose, but only when no window is in front of it holding focus.

Steps

Step 1 — Right-click at (900, 600)

The task is to create a folder on the Desktop, and the Desktop has no ribbon of its own, so the only route is its context menu. Move the cursor and Right-click an empty area of the wallpaper, clear of the icons down the left edge.

Step 2 — Move-cursor at (946, 849)

Move the cursor onto the New › row without clicking, so the submenu opens on hover and the target is confirmed in the frame before anything is committed. Note that New sits higher here than it does inside a folder window: the desktop menu has no Group by or Customize this folder… entries, so everything below them moves up.

Step 3 — Left-click at (946, 849)

Move the cursor and Left-click New › to hold the submenu open.

Step 4 — Move-cursor at (1241, 851)

Move the cursor across into the submenu and onto Folder, its first entry. Moving before clicking matters more here than usual — a click that misses lands on the wallpaper and dismisses the whole menu.

Step 5 — Left-click at (1241, 851)

Move the cursor and Left-click Folder. Windows creates a folder called New folder on the Desktop and puts its name straight into an inline edit box with the text selected, so it is ready to be renamed without any further action.

Step 6 — Type: Archive

Type Archive while the placeholder name is still selected. The typed text replaces it rather than appending to it.

Step 7 — Press: Enter

After typing Archive Press Enter to commit the name. Until this happens the folder is still New folder on disk; clicking elsewhere would commit that name instead of the one just typed.

Notes & Edge Cases

• A submenu opens on hover, and clicking its parent row can close the whole menu. Move onto the parent and wait for the child list to appear rather than clicking through it. This is the most common way a menu-driven step silently does nothing.
• Confirm the submenu is open before moving to the child item. The pointer has to travel from the parent row into the submenu without leaving the menu's bounds; cutting the corner closes it and the click then lands on whatever is behind.
• A parent row's position is not fixed. Menu contents differ by what was right-clicked and by what is installed, so the row sits at a different height in different folders. Read the row's label rather than returning to a remembered position.