Chapter 13

1 with Man at Abilene Christian University

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Currently, Microsoft offers four service packs for Windows XP.

False

Windows needs free space on the hard drive for normal operation, for defragmenting the drive, for burning CDs and DVDs, and for a variety of other tasks, so it’s important to delete unneeded files occasionally.

True

Depending on how fragmented the drive and how large the drive, defragmenting it can take less than an hour or as long as all night.

True

When a new hard drive is first installed in a system, you must first initialize the disk.

True

You can install an OS on a spanned or striped volume that uses software RAID.

False

For Windows XP, use the ____ to see which service packs are installed.

System Properties box

To view and manually install updates, click ____, and then follow the directions on-screen.

Start, All Programs, and Windows Updates

To protect a system against malicious attack, you need to verify that ____ software is configured to scan the system regularly and that it is up-to-date.

antivirus

Files can end up in ____ segments all over the drive.

fragmented

By default, Vista automatically defrags a drive every ____.

Wednesday at 1:00 AM

Use the ____ command to defrag the drive from a command prompt window.

Defrag

To make sure the drive is healthy, you need to search for and repair file system errors using the Windows ____ utility.

Chkdsk

A snapshot of the system settings and configuration is called a ____.

restore point

____ creates restore points at regular intervals and just before you install software or hardware.

System Protection

When you back up the system state, the registry is also backed up to the folder ____.

%SystemRoot%\repair\RegBack

Besides backing up user data or system files, you can also back up the entire hard drive using Windows Vista ____.

Complete PC Backup

The user folder for an account contains a group of subfolders called the user ____.

profile namespace

If you enter a command and want to terminate its execution before it is finished, you can press ____ to do so.

Ctrl+Break

The ____ command creates a subdirectory under a directory.

A file with a .bat file extension is called a ____ file.

batch

You can use ____ to convert two or more basic disks to dynamic disks.

Disk Management

When a hard drive is first sensed by Windows, it is assigned the ____ disk status.

Basic

A disk marked as dynamic can be used with other dynamic disks in a spanned or ____ volume.

striped

If you are having problems with a hard drive, volume, or mounted drive, check ____ for events about the drive that might have been recorded there.

Event Viewer

Windows Vista Ultimate offers language packs through ____.

Windows Update

About this deck

By: jhon doe
Created: 2011-04-29
Size: 26 flashcards
Views: 38

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