Course Description

1. Preparation of a New Hard Disk
• BIOS Setup
• Creating a Dos Bootable diskette
• Partition of Hard Disk (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS etc)
o Why is there a need?
o How to go about doing it.
o What is Primary DOS Partition, Extended Partition, Logical Drives?
• Formatting (Low-level, High-level)
o Why do you format?
o How to do it
2. Installing Operating System-Windows
• Creating of Startup diskette
• Installation Procedure
• Preparing for an Emergency disk
3. Device Driver installation and update
• VGA
• Network
• Printer
4. Hard disk Maintenance using tools as
• Disk Cleanup
• Scandisk
• Disk Defragmenter
• System Information
• System Monitor
5. Microsoft Windows Basic
• System Modification with the Control Panel
• Change the Wallpaper
• Change the My Computer icon
• Lock/Unlock your computer. Change Windows logon password
• Read system information
• Change startup default setting
6. Explore the Windows OS System
• Changing Windows OS explorer's view
• Changing Windows OS explorer option
• Registering file types
• Manage documents with right mouse click
• Encrypt and compress files/folders
• Recover files/folders from Recycle Bin
• Empty Recycle Bin
7. Manage your Desktop
• Turn on Active Desktop, set a web page as wallpaper
• Customize screen saver, Windows color scheme
• Add/Remove programs
• Search for files, folders, computer...
• Compress a NTFS volume for save disk space
• Back up files/folders
8. Practical Labs