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Take off the cap from the memory stick, if it has one.Plug the memory stick into your computer's USB drive (on the back or side of your computer) or slide the memory card into the mini drive on the side of your computer. A message will pop up that says "Installing Device Driver" the first time that you plug in the stick.A prompt will then pop up called "AutoPlay". Look for the "General Options" icon.Click on "Open Folder to View Files (Using Windows Explorer)." A box will pop up showing all the folders and files stored on the memory stick.If the "AutoPlay" box does not pop up, click on your computer's "Start" menu and double-click on "Computer." The memory stick will show up in this menu as a "Removable Disk." Double-click on the assigned drive for the memory card to view the files on the card.Click on each file folder to view its files. After you click on the folder, the list of files stored in that folder will be displayed. Certain files, not assigned to a folder, will show up separately.

How to Display All Files on a Memory Stick

Take off the cap from the memory stick, if it has one. Plug the memory stick into your computer's USB drive (on the back or side of you...

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/internet-and-broadband/images/family-using-broadband-computer-200-200.jpg"> We've long assumed that data is data no matter where it comes from. It turns out that we're wrong. Earlier this week, boffins at MIT analysed different kinds of data and discovered something extraordinary: data packets of identical size don't necessarily have the same mass. The analysis is ongoing, but so far it seems that some kinds of data have more mass than others. The mass of a Skype data packet is roughly twice that of a YouTube packet; YouTube in turn has around ten times the mass of an otherwise identical data packet containing email rather than video. As a rule of thumb, the more compressed data is the more mass the resulting packets will have. My memories of O Level physics are pretty shaky, but even I know that the more mass something has, the more force you need to move it around the place - and I reckon it's a safe bet that the people who move those packets around the Internet, ISPs, will reflect that in their pricing. It's just a matter of time before you're paying not per megabyte or gigabyte, but per service: email may be free, but YouTube will cost you - and you can forget about lag-free gaming if you're not willing to pay for it. Mass effects I am, of course, talking out of my backside - but unfortunately not everything I've written above is a load of rubbish. I'm lying about MIT and mass, but I'm telling the truth about tiered pricing. In the US, two firms' ideas for tiered mobile data prices made their way <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/carriers-net-neutrality-tiers/">to Wired.com</A>, while <a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/12/14/mobile-operators-want-to-charge-based-on-time-and-apps/">GigaOm reports</A> that European operators want to charge more for specific types of applications at specific times of day. On the face of it, it's no big deal: if one mobile operator wants to charge more for YouTube, simply choose one that doesn't. But per-service pricing is more insidious than that. By making this service expensive and that service cheap, ISPs can distort the market. Is there any reason why uploading photos to Facebook should cost more than uploading to Flickr or sending the same shots by email? Should iPlayer cost more than Sky Player? Gmail more than email? I can understand the argument that you should pay for the amount of data you use - I'm online all day and hammer my connection; there's no way my elderly, occasional-browser neighbours should pay anything close to what I pay for broadband - and I understand that limits to mobile capacity might mean paying more for guaranteed speeds at peak times in busy areas. That's fair enough. What's not fair is for ISPs to make stuff up, to arbitrarily decide that one Facebook is worth three Twitters, a quarter of a YouTube and a bit of Bebo. Because as we all know, data is data no matter where it comes from.

Gary Marshall: More expensive access: can ISPs make it stick?

We've long assumed that data is data no matter where it comes from. It turns out that we're wrong. Earlier this week, boffins at MI...