Month: July 2001

System Configuration is used to manage boot processes, configure how Windows starts up, services, etc. System Configuration can be accessed from the Control Panel under Administrative Tools or via the…

Many applications perform background processes known as services. Services don’t require user interaction, instead they just run behind the scenes. Services include things like file indexing, anti-virus, network browsing, etc….

The Performance monitor is used to provide metrics and statistics on how your computer is doing over a long period of time. Things like disk, memory, CPU utilization can be…

Large organizations have big security policies and therefore may be managed through Active Directory Group Policies. At home though, you have stand alone computers that aren’t managed through Active Directory….

There are different types of users with different privileges. There can be an Administrator user who will be a Window super-user. There can be a Guest user that has limited…

By default the operating system doesn’t know how to talk directly to hardware. This is where device drivers come in to act as a middle man between the hardware device…