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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| preventative maintenace tasks | verifying windows settings,defragmenting the hard drive,checking the drive for errors |
| fragmentation | happens overtime as windows writes files,deletes files,writes new files to your drive |
| preventative maintenance | alleviates slow computer performance |
| defragmenting | rearranges files on the drive into as few segements as possible |
| critical windows settings | automatic updates,verify updates and service packs, |
| checkDisk chkdsk | utility searches for bad sectors on a volume and recovers the data from them if possible |
| disk cleanup utility | a way to cleanup temporary files |
| vista defender software explorer | used to control startup programs |
| virtual memory | uses hard drive space as memory to increase the total amount of memory available |
| virtual memory | stored in a paging file named pagefile.ss |
| minimumal amount of space to keep free | fifteen percent |
| restore points | automatically created when changes made |
| automated system recovery | xp process that allows you to restore an entire hard drive volume or logical drive to its state at the time the backup of the volume was made |
| batch file | text file containing a series of os commands |
| pagefile.sys | hidden file stored in the root directory of c |
| defrag | program and command to defragment a volume |
| dynamic disks | a way to partition one or more hard drives,in which informaion about the drive is stored in a database at the end of the drive |
| dynamic volumes | used with dynamic disks by which you can create a single volume that uses space on multiple hard drives |
| swap file | a file on the hard drive that is used by the os for virtual memory |
| mount point | a folder that is used as shortcut to space on another volume which effectively increases the size of the folder to the size of the other volume |
| mounted drive | a volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space |
| pagefile.sys | windows 2000/xp/vista swap file |
| restore points | a snapshot of the xp vista system usually made before installation of new hardware or applications |
| system restore | xp vista utility used to restor the system to a restore point |
| system state data | xp and 2000,files that are necessary for a successful load of the operating system |
| user profile namespace | group of folders and subfolders in the c:\users folder that belongs to a specific user account |
| virtual memory | a method whereby the os uses the hard drive as though it were ram |
| wildcard | a * or ? character used in a command line that represents a character or group of characters in a filename or extension |
| fragmentation | file pieces in segments all over the hard drive |
| reasons to defragment | read write head moves all over to find a file.data recovery utilities may not work |
| to fully defrag a drive | fifteen percent must be free |
| checkdisk | error checking |
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