Pc Maint

Front 1

What are the 4 Windows Settings critical to securing a computer and needs to be verified as part of regular maintenance?

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Updates, Drivers, Anti-Virus, Network Security Settings

Front 2

What folder holds the windows regestry?

Back 2

C:\Windows\system32\Config

Front 3

WHat folder holds the backup regestry?

Back 3

C:\Windows\system32\Config\regback

Front 4

What folder holds the 32-bit programs on a 64-bit OS?

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c:\Program Files x86

Front 5

What file in the user account folder stores user settings?

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mtuser.dat

Front 6

What is the purpose of the C:\Windows\CSC folder?

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Where windows keeps files that you marked to be kept offline.

Front 7

What is the purpose of the Windows.old file?

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Holds data from OS upgrade, used for rollback.

Front 8

How cna you manually delete the windows.old folder?

Back 8

Use the disk cleanup utility or find it in windows exploroer and delete it.

Front 9

By default how often does windows defragment the hard drive?

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one time per week

Front 10

What types of drives have windows defrag disabled?

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SSD'd Falshdrives and Smart Cards

Front 11

What are the 2 reasons to delete unsused programs?

Back 11

Clear space on disk and stop unused tasks from running in the background.

Front 12

What is the filename and default path of the Windows paging file used fro virtual memory?

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pagefile.sys

Front 13

What does pagefile.sys do?

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Creates virtual memory to be used like ram to hold overflow tasks.

Front 14

What type of storage media must be used to create a Windows System Image?

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Removable Media

Front 15

What 2 Windows 8 utilities are used to create previouse versions of files that can be recoverd?

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File History and System Protection

Front 16

What 2 Windows 7 utilities are used to create previouse versions of files that can be recoverd?

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Backup and restore and system protection

Front 17

Why don't you store your backup on the same dirve as the OS?

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If the drive fails you loose both the backup and your original.

Front 18

What is &SystemRoot%?

Back 18

This is where windows is installed.

Front 19

What utility creates restore point?

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System Protection

Front 20

Where are restore points by default?

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C:\System Volume Information

Front 21

How can you delete all curent restore points?

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Turn off System Protection then turn it back on.

Front 22

To use GPT what do you need?

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a 64-bit OS and UEIF firmware.

Front 23

In command line what is the purpose of |more parameter?

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shows the informaiton one line at a time

Front 24

What is the command to list all files and subcatagoies in a directory?

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dir /s

Front 25

What type of CMD do we need to run chkdsk command?

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elevated command prompt

Front 26

When does chkdsk run?

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Next time windows starts.

Front 27

Replacment for xcopy?

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robocopy

Front 28

Which utility do you use to partition a hard disk?

Back 28

Disk Managment

Front 29

What is more stable software RAID or Hardware RAID?

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Hardware RAID

Front 30

What is the blue screen of death?

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An error stop message

Front 31

When moving a dynamic disk to a new computer what will it designate it as first?

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Foriegn Drive

Front 32

What is the feature on Windows 8 Storage Spaces that allows admins to add physical HDD's to the storage pool?

Back 32

Thin Provisioning

Front 33

Comand to make a new folder with CLI?

Back 33

MD

Front 34

In CLI how do you copy a file?

Back 34

Xcopy

Front 35

In CLI what is the comand to move a file?

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move

Front 36

In CLI what is the command to remove a directory?

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rm

Front 37

In CLI what is the comand to make a directory?

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md