A storage place on your hard disk (or in any other storage medium, such as a Zip drive or a CD-ROM), in which disk files are kept. A folder is designated by a backslash symbol (\) followed by the name of the folder. The folder in which DietPower 4.4 is normally installed, for example, is \DietPower 4.4. A file named File.new, if stored in the \DietPower 4.4 folder, would be designated as \DietPower 4.4\File.new. (In DOS and Windows 3.1, folders were called "directories." Some people use the terms interchangeably.)