A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC Fifth Edition Chapter 15 Installing and Using Windows XP Professional

2 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Windows XP Home edition Professional  Media Center: digital media  Tablet PC 64-bit edition

3 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Windows XP Home Edition Features New user interface Two users can be logged on simultaneously Windows Media Player for Windows XP Windows Messenger Ability to burn a CD using drag-drop Expanded Help feature Advanced security features

4 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition New User Interface

5 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Additional Windows XP Professional Features Remote Desktop Roaming profiles Additional security features Multilingual capabilities Support for new higher-performance processors

6 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Advantages and Disadvantages of Windows XP

7 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Windows XP Architecture Uses same kernel architecture as Windows NT/2000;  Components operate in either user mode or kernel mode Boot process and files needed for a successful boot are the same as for Windows NT/2000 Generally more stable than Windows NT/2000 Easier installation Increased security

8 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Windows XP Architecture ( continued )

9 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition General Guidelines for Selecting a File System NTFSFAT32FAT16 File and folder security File compression Control over how much disk space a user is allowed File encryption Setting up a dual boot with Windows 9x, and each OS must access all partitions Setting up a dual boot with MS- DOS or Windows NT, and each OS must access all partitions

A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC Fifth Edition Chapter 16 Managing and Supporting Windows XP

11 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Security Using Windows NT/ 2000/XP Goals  Secure system resources – including hardware and software – from improper use  Secure users’ data from improper access Key concept: user accounts

12 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition User Accounts Information about the user: name, password, groups, rights and permissions Types  Global: domain level  Local: on a local machine  Built-in: administrator and guest

13 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Create An User Account Figure 16-1 pp. 739

14 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition User Profiles Created by system after administrator creates local user account and user logs for first time Types  Roaming: stored on a file server and shared by all computers in the workgroup  Mandatory: a roaming profile applied to all users in a workgroup

15 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition User Groups Types  Administrators  Backup Operators  Power Users  Limited Users  Guests Local policies can be assigned to a user group, affecting all users in the group

16 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Group Policy Normally intended for use on a domain;  Can also be used on a standalone or computer in a workgroup Can be applied to the computer or can be applied to each user who logs on

17 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Create a User Group pp. 742 Figure 16-5

18 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Disk Quotas Limit how much disk space user has access to Does not specify location of files, just total space allowed Can be set only if you are using NTFS

19 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Set Disk Quotas pp. 744

20 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition EFS (Encrypted File System) Process of putting readable data into code that must be translated before it can be accessed (usually done using a key) Applies only to Windows 2000/XP NTFS file system

21 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition How to Use Encryption Can be implemented at either the folder or file level Folder level is encouraged and considered a “best practice” strategy

22 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Use Encryption pp. 746

23 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) Protects a PC from unauthorized access from the Internet when the PC is connected directly to the Internet Examines every incoming communication  Initiated by the PC (permitted)  Initiated by an outside device/computer (refused) Do not use on a PC that has Internet from a LAN

24 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition The Windows NT/2000/XP Registry Hierarchical database containing information about all hardware, software, device drivers, network protocols, and user configuration needed by the OS and applications Logical organization  Upside-down tree structure (keys, subkeys, values) Physical organization  Stored in five files, called hives

25 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Components That Use the Registry Setup programs for devices and applications User profiles Files active when OS is loaded Device drivers Hardware profiles Application programs

26 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Logical Organization of the Registry

27 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Five Subtrees of the Registry

28 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Physical Organization of the Registry

29 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Editing the Registry pp. 755

30 A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC, Fifth Edition Hands-on Project: Create a Boot Disk pp. 769