Ch4 understanding Windows

Question 0

The Windows versions from 1.0 up until NT, were overlays of what?

Answer 0

the MS-DOS command line interface

Question 1

What was the first OS released in the 1980’s by MS called?

Answer 1

MS-DOS

Question 2

What was the significant change of Windows 2000

Answer 2

It replaced the home users Windows 95 and corporate Windows NT. By lumping them both into one category. Of course Microsoft meant to only replace NT.

Question 3

Was Windows 95 an overlay?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

What change did Windows NT bring?

Answer 4

Brought the NTFS file system

Question 5

who was Windows XP versions made for?

Answer 5

professional, home, and media users

Question 6

Windows XP professional is the only version with what feature?

Answer 6

To be able to log into a domain

Question 7

XP home significantly lacks what?

Answer 7

No support for EFS, file and folder permissions, can only share the shared documents folder, and no support for group policies.

Question 8

How do I determine my windows version?

Answer 8

Go to the computer icon, right click and click properties.

Question 9

32-but Windows supports maximum of how much memory?

Answer 9

4 GB

Question 10

64-bit theoretically supports how much ram?

Answer 10

16 TB

Question 11

x86 describes what?

Answer 11

Officially it describes intel like of CPU’s. Popularly it’s used to refer to 32 bit versions of windows support

Question 12

what is the desktop

Answer 12

primary interface to the computer

Question 13

what is the taskbar?

Answer 13

it runs on those the bottom and includes up to 4 sections

Question 14

The taskbar usually has what sections?

Answer 14

start button, quick launch toolbar, running programs area, and notification area

Question 15

the notification area has what other name?

Answer 15

system tray area

Question 16

What does Windows explorer do?

Answer 16

enables you to manipulate files and folders stored on all drives on computer or connected to it.

Question 17

What is system root?

Answer 17

folder in which Windows has been installed

Question 18

How is the system root path written?

Answer 18

Can be written as %systemroot%

Question 19

What sub folders are in the system root?

Answer 19

FONTS
offline files
system32
Temp

Question 20

What is a new users folder added in vista that wasn’t in XP?

Answer 20

the downloads folder

Question 21

What is the registry?

Answer 21

Huge database in the OS of Windows that stores everything about the PC. Any configuration you do to Windows OS, usually involves editing registry

Question 22

In the registry the 5 main subgroups are also called what?

Answer 22

root keys

Question 23

Rootkeys have what inside of them?

Answer 23

Subkeys and values

Question 24

What are the five main root keys in the registry?

Answer 24

``` HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_USERS HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG ```

Question 25

What is in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Answer 25

standard class objects used by windows. Basically groupings that have defined functions in them, telling what you can do with the object they represent.

Question 26

What is in the HKEY current user and HKEY users?

Answer 26

current user has settings for current user and the other one has the personalized info settings for all users

Question 27

What is in HKEY local machine?

Answer 27

data for systems non user configs, such as disk drive. Basically every device and every program on PC has settings here

Question 28

What's in HKEY current config?

Answer 28

If the values in the HKEY local machine have more than one operation, here you will see which one is in use currently.

Question 29

What is RAM cache?

Answer 29

It's certain memory from the hard-drive set aside as a page file, swap file, or virtually memory.

Question 30

What is the recommended page file size?

Answer 30

1.5 times the amount of RAM currently installed on computer

Question 31

What is the page file called

Answer 31

PAGEFILE.SYS

Question 32

Any single thing you see in windows is called what?

Answer 32

an object