Troubleshooting Flashcards
Troubleshooting
Attempting to determine the root cause and solution to a problem.
BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
Windows fails to boot properly or quits unexpectedly
Inoculating
Running antivirus program on a computer
Boot.ini
Displays a menu of operating systems during startup.
Located in root directory of primary hard disk
Dr. Watson
Application debugger included in Windows
Detailed logs of errors
UAC
User Account Control
GPF
General Protection Fault
Occurs when an application attempts to use a portion of memory that is in use or not valid.
Minimum free disk space require to run Windows Disk Defragmenter
15%
Utility you use to clear system log when it becomes full
Event Viewer
Executive Subsystem
Software component that parses Registry for configuration information and starts services / drivers
Recovery Console
Start / stop services
Read / write data on local drive
Repair MBR
Format drives
IRP
incident Response Policy
Windows Update
Utility responsible for finding, downloading, and installing Windows service packs