chapter 13 maintaining windows. o bjectives for the next several lessons learn how to set up and...
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OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL LESSONS
Learn how to set up and perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks to keep Windows healthy--Today
Learn how to prepare for disaster by keeping good backups of use data and Windows system files
Learn about the directory structures used by Windows and how to manage files and folders
Learn how to use Windows utilities to manage hard drives
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SCHEDULED PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
Windows gets tired after awhile so you will need to do Preventive Maintenance
Alleviates slow computer performance
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YOUR JOB TODAY
Each time I ask you to go through a process on your computer make a print screen of how you did this and put it in a word document to email to me----100 points on lab grade.
1. VERIFY CRITICAL WINDOWS SETTINGS
Help user by explaining: Automatic Windows updates are very important How to manually check for and install updates
Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click System and Security, click System, and
then click the Windows Updates tab. Click the option that you want. Make sure Automatic
Updates is not turned off.
Do this now and make
a print screen of what you see5
VERIFY CRITICAL WINDOWS SETTINGS (CONT’D.)
This what you should have seen or something similar
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CLEAN UP THE HARD DRIVE
Delete unneeded files occasionally Windows requires some hard drive free space to
function to do the following Normal operation, defragmenting drives, burning CDs
and DVDs, and other tasks
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CLEAN UP THE HARD DRIVE (CONT’D.)
Yikes this drive only has 1.2G bytes of free space.
All computers need at least 3 Gigs
Use disk cleanup toDo this now and save a print screen ofthe process
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DEFRAG THE HARD DRIVE
Fragmentation can slow things down also Files fragmented in segments all over the drive
Reasons to defrag Read-write head moves all over to retrieve a file Data-recovery utilities may not work
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DEFRAG THE HARD DRIVE (CONT’D.)Do this now.Right click on computer properties the tools and click defrag nowClick analyze disk --defrag the disk if it needs it.Save a print screen of this also
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CHECK THE HARD DRIVE FOR ERRORS
Chkdsk utility Searches for bad sectors on a volume Recovers data if possible
Error checking and repair time Potentially long depending on drive size and files
Methods to launch Chkdsk utility Drive Properties box Chkdsk command in a command prompt window
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VERIFY STARTUP PROGRAMS
Software programs Add themselves to automatic startup list
Shortcut or program file in a startup folder Registry entry Scheduled Task list entry
Problem with too may startup programs Slow system startup, sluggish system, startup
errors Problem solution
Remove unnecessary programs
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VERIFY STARTUP PROGRAMS (CONT’D.)
How—Like this –Do it and record your results with print screen
Go to windows site and find Autoruns for windows And clear the check boxes of the programs you
don’t want to run OR
Type in msconfig and go to startup on the menu
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FREE UP ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE SPACE
Windows Explorer Displays drive free space
Rule of thumb Shoot for 15 percent of drive free
Move data to other drives or devices Use folder compressions
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FREE UP ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE SPACE (CONT’D.)
Reorganize folders and volumes Move applications
Most require reinstall
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Move virtual memory paging file This file is called virtual memory—remember
that??? Windows Pagefile.sys is its actual name
Hidden file stored in C drive root directory
You can move it to save space on the C drive
It is found by doing the following—do this now and do a printscreen of what you did
Got to system properties click on performance settings and then on advanced
FREE UP ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE SPACE (CONT’D.)
Limit space used by Internet Explorer (IE) or any other browser you use Reduce IE cache file space Move cache folder to a second volume (if
available) Set IE to empty cache folder when browser
closes If more space is still needed, add another
hard drive
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