Title: Chapters 10 and 11, Managing and Optimizing Windows
Course: DEPT MC - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE > Section: Module 3 (Chapters 7, 8, 10 & 11)

Learning Objectives

- Set up and perform scheduled preventive maintenance tasks to keep Windows healthy
- Practice and prepare for disaster by keeping good backups of user data and Windows system files
- Explore File Systems and Directory structures used by Windows and how to manage files & folders
- Installing Windows utilities to manage hard drives

Read Chapters 10 and 11 with a special focus on:

- Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8
- Windows Maintenance Tasks
- Backups
- File and Disk Management
- Admin Tools
- Improving Windows Performance
- Task Manager
- MSConfig
- MMC
- Event Viewer
- Performance

1. Review the Chapter presentations for Chapter 10 and Chapter 11
2. Review How to Create and Restore System Image Backups on Windows 8.1
3. Complete the specified TestOut lab sections
4. Take the Chapter Review Quiz

Watch this video (optional):

nicksconputerfix (2015, October 4). How to Speed up your Computer Windows 8 - Free & Easy [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/6xjyX1MGKK0 |

Click the " Next " button (bottom-right) to complete the following:

- TestOut Lab DropBox
- Chapter Review Quiz