Windows XP: Open the start menu, click "Run" then type %appdata%. It will open a folder with Roaming in it. Open that, and then click on the .minecraft file.
Windows 7: Open the start menu, and then type %appdata% in the search bar. It will open a folder with Roaming in it. Open that, and then click on the .minecraft file.
Search minecraft
Edit: ^ is an idiot, open Run, type %appdata% and then .minecraft
Run %appdata%
you get a .zip of the texture pack, and copy it into the texture packs folder in the minecraft directory
The saves folder is in a hidden folder in application data called .minecraft. The directory to the folder is: My documents/Application Data/.minecraft. There is a folder in .minecraft called saves which contains your saved worlds. If this folder does not exist, then perhaps you have not yet played any worlds on that computer or somebody has deleted the folder.
To take a screenshot, you press F2, then find the "screenshots" folder in your ".minecraft" directory. If you are using Windows, this is usually in "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming"
Simply download the texture pack and place the zip file in the texturepacks folder in the .minecraft directory
They go to the screenshots folder in the .minecraft folder. Click "Start" and search for "Run". Type in %appdata% and press enter. Find the .minecraft folder and look for the screenshots folder.
Locate your Minecraft folder, then find your save file. Copy and paste this onto your hard drive. Minecraft is installed in your AppData folder (C:\Users\[username]\AppData\.minecraft\) The saves folder should be in the .minecraft folder.
Find the world in your 'saves' folder (which is in your minecraft folder) and copy it to another location, like Documents or Desktop.
you need to go to your .minecraft folder then go to your saves folder then find your world and burn that onto a cd
When an update is released Minecraft will ask you if you want to update as it starts.You can update Minecraft manually by downloading the version, weekly update or pr-release you want as minecraft.jar, and replacing the minecraft.jar in the bin folder of the Minecraft directory
you go to the users folder, then go into your folder, then go to library then application support and then minecraft
find one for example on planetminecraft then download it and navigate to your .minecraft folder found by typing %appdata% in the search bar in your folder window. there will be a folder called saves take the the world out of the zipped/rared folder and put it in the saves folder.
A folder called .minecraft