1. Optimizing your windows system

2. Windows updates Updates Security updates Feature updates Driver updates Service pack A group of features & Security updates

3. Windows XP update & Windows 7 XP uses an online updater Win 7 has a built in updater Category’s High priorities Holds most of you updates Software (Optional) Holds updates for office and added Hardware (Optional) Drivers for you system

4. Watch out! (Handling updates) Drivers and windows update Bad or corrupted updates Updates with holes When do new updates hit? Tech republic

5. Disk Clean up utility Help you manage all you temporary files Internet files Recycle bin Downloaded programs

6. Registry Clean registry Helps clean up old versions of programs Cleans up code that you don’t need How? CC cleaner is a good freeware that cleans your registry for you. Risk?

7. Disk defragmentation What is it? Win7 automatically start Will it slow you down? Should you enable automatic disk defrag with SSD?

8. System configuration (MSCONFIG) General Allows you to choose different types of startup. Normal, diagnostic, custom Boot Allows you to look at all the OS’s you have installed. Service This shows a list of services that are running on your computer (like task manager) Startup Shows you what programs will start up when the computer starts up Tools Lists tools that you can use in windows