© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Third Edition Chapter 5 Windows XP Professional McGraw-Hill

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Learning Outcomes Describe Windows XP Professional benefits and features Install and configure Windows XP Professional Manage Windows XP Professional Secure Windows XP Professional Troubleshoot common Windows XP Professional problems

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Windows XP Overview Windows XP Editions – Windows XP Professional – Windows XP Home Edition – Windows XP Media Center Edition – Windows XP Tablet PC Edition – Windows XP Embedded – Windows XP 64-bit Edition

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Windows XP Overview The End of the Road for Windows XP – October 22, 2010: last day to buy PC with XP installed – One year after introduction of Windows 7 – July 13, 2010: supported ended for SP2 – April 2014: support ends for SP3 – 64-bit version did not have a third service pack

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Windows XP Overview Windows XP’s Features & Benefits – Easy-to-use Desktop – Security – Stability and Compatibility – Recovery Tools Last Known Good (LKG) Configuration Task Manager Recovery Console Safe Mode Device Manager System Restore Automated System Recovery (ASR)

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Figure 5-3 Select “List my most recently opened documents” on the Advanced page of the Customize Start menu dialog box

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Figure 5-4 The Compatibility page allows you to select settings that enable an older program to run

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Check out your file system

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP – Prepare the computer Verify computer meets hardware minimums Verify hardware compatibility Consider creating a virtual machine for the installation

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© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Clean Installation Avoid inheriting problems from a previous installation If necessary, have Windows Setup repartition and format the disk to ensure all is clean, including the MBR Downside: a manual clean installation is a lot of work because you need to install all the necessary programs and configure it

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Scripted Installation Clean installation variation Used in large organizations where many desktops are identical Training and time to configure and test required

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Image Clean installation variation Image is an exact duplicate of an entire hard drive including OS and all installed software Also used in large organizations where many desktops are identical Imaging software – Symantec’s Norton Ghost – Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Preparing to Boot into Windows XP Setup Windows XP CD is bootable Over-the network installation requires preparation – Copy contents of the i386 folder (from CD) to network – Boot up client computer, connect to network share, run WINNT.EXE

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Registration versus Activation Registration – Optional – Owner information Activation – Microsoft Product Activation (MPA) – Combats software piracy – Mandatory within 30 days of installing Windows How to Activate – Automated online – Verbally over the phone

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 Installing Windows XP Preparing to Install Windows XP (cont.) – Reactivation Changes to hardware detected during recalculations of the hardware hash If one of the components from which the hardware hash was generated is replaced or significantly changed, it will require reactivation You may need to call Microsoft and explain the need to reactivate Installing on a second computer triggers reactivation

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 17 Installing Windows XP Getting Down to Business: The Installation – Windows Setup wizard will guide users through the process – Manual, clean installation takes about an hour – The installation program will wait for user input if it is required

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 18 Step-by-Step 5.01 Installing Windows XP Professional Installing Windows XP

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 19 Post-Installation Tasks Verifying Network Access – Verify communication with other computers – Open My Network Places and see if other computers are visible Install Virtual Machine Additions (if applicable) Install Updates

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 20 Figure 5-6 Osborne work group with one computer showing

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 21 Figure 5-7 Microsoft Windows Network with three work groups or domains showing

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 22 Figure 5-10 Choosing to enable automatic updates

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 23 Figure 5-11 Continue updating until there are no more updates to install

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 24 Managing Windows XP Professional Creating New Partitions in Windows XP – If you did not use entire physical disk – If you add another hard drive – Good partitioning strategy One partition for the OS and installed applications One partition for data

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 25 Managing Windows XP Professional Creating New Partitions in Windows XP (cont.) – Create a partition Log on as an administrator Open Computer Management console Open Storage node and click Disk Management Unpartitioned space is labeled “Unallocated” Recommendation: change optical drive letter Use New Partition wizard to partition space

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© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 30 Managing Windows XP Professional Installing and Removing Applications – Most applications have installation programs – Use a program’s uninstall if available – If no uninstall, use Add or Remove Programs

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 31 Figure 5-12 Add or Remove Programs

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 32 Managing Windows XP Professional Managing Windows XP Components – To add or remove a Windows component, use the Windows Components wizard from the Add or Remove Programs applet in Control Panel – To add Windows components you will need the CD or a location where the source files are located – No CD needed to remove Windows components

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 33 Securing Windows XP Professional Applying Security to Files, Folders, and Printers – Securing Files and Folders on an NTFS Drive Permissions Assigned to Personal Folders NTFS Permission Inheritance Inherited through folder hierarchy Cannot alter inherited permission Block inheritance and assign new permission

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 34 Figure 5-20 The list of permissions for a folder

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 35 Step-by-Step 5.04 Viewing Permissions on Personal Folders Managing Windows XP Professional

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 36 Securing Windows XP Professional Applying Security to Files, Folders, and Printers (cont.) – Combining NTFS and Share Permissions Authentication (logon) Share authorization NTFS authorization

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 37 Securing Windows XP Professional Applying Security to Files, Folders, and Printers (cont.) – NTFS File and Folder Encryption Encrypting File System (EFS) Encrypting a File or Folder Decrypting Files and Folders

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 38 Accepting the default will encrypt the current and future contents of a folder

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 39 The warning message when encrypting a file

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 40 Troubleshooting Common Windows XP Problems The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) – Preparing for Stop Errors in Windows XP Write an Event to the System Log Send an Administrative Alert Automatically Restart Writing Debugging Information

© 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 41 The default System Failure settings on the Startup and Recovery page