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ICTICT201 Use computer operating systems and hardware

ICTICT201 - Assessment Task 1

Preparation
In Parts 1-3 below you will create some folders, and move some course files into the created folders. You may do this on any drive on your PC, for example you may use a hard drive, an external drive, or a USB flash drive. Choose your work drive before continuing with these instructions.
• You should have downloaded the course zip file: ICTICT201CourseFiles.zip from Connect > Assignments.
• Extract the ICTICT201CourseFiles.zip into a new folder called 201A_Misc in the root of your chosen work drive and extract the 13 course files into this same folder.
• Create a document named ICTICT201Assess1. This document will be referred to below as your "assessment document" and will hold all answers in Assessment 1 unless otherwise instructed.

Assessment Task 1 activities
Part 1: Organising folders and files
Before continuing refer to the preparation instructions above and make sure you have extracted the 13 course files into folder 201A_Misc.
1. Using Windows Explorer, and starting from the root of your chosen work drive create a new folder 201A_YourName - For example, if your name is Jane Smith, and you have chosen to work on drive C, then create C:\201A_JaneSmith. This folder will be referred to below as your ‘assessment folder'.
2. Inside your assessment folder, create a hierarchy of subfolders like that shown in the figure below (replacing JaneSmith with your own name):
Figure: Assessment folder

3. Give the subfolder Personal the Hidden attribute - it should now appear "greyed out" in the right pane of Windows Explorer.
4. Restore down your current Windows Explorer window, and size it so that only the newly created folder hierarchy is showing. You should be able to achieve a similar appearance to Figure 9 above. Paste a screenshot of the active window into your assessment document.
5. Using Windows Explorer, move the files in order from 201A_Misc to your assessment folder as follows:
• Family.doc and Wedding.mdb into Home\Personal.
• All image files into Home\Pictures.
• All files beginning with the word "Travel" into Home\Travel.
• All Excel templates and Word templates into Work\Templates.
• Any remaining Excel workbooks and/or Word documents into Work\Current.
6. Obtain a dialog box showing the properties of your assessment folder. Paste a screenshot of this dialog box into your assessment document. Although this box does not list the subfolders and files you have created, it should show the correct number of files (13) and folders (7).
7. Zip your assessment folder, 201A_YourName, ready for uploading. (Hint: As a test to ensure the zip operation worked correctly, we recommend that you unzip to ensure everything is there. In particular make sure folder Personal has the hidden attribute.)

Part 2: Search for files
In an Explorer window of suitable size, do a search for files on your system using the following search parameters:

• Search only for files that have the filename extension dll.
• Search in the folder WINDOWS, and include all subfolders.
• Don't include hidden files and folders or system folders.
• Show results in Details view with columns for: Name, In Folder, Size, Date modified.
• Show at least 20 rows of results in your search window.
• Show search results sorted by Size, descending.

Paste a screenshot of your search window results into your test document.

Part 3: Using the command line interface
In this task you will perform exactly the same folder create and file move tasks as Part 1 (See steps 1 - 3 and 5) but will use a batch file (a script with a series of commands).

Use Notepad to create in folder 201A_Misc a batch file called MyBatch.bat with these features:

• In accordance with good programming practice the batch file should include REM (remark) statements. Include a REM statement to state author (you) and the date written. Include another REM statement to state briefly what the batch file is intended to do (create folders and distribute files).
• The batch file will firstly delete the existing 201A_YourName folder
• The batch file will then recreate the complete 7 folder structure of 201AYourName folder on your work drive.
• It will then move 13 files from folder 201A_Misc following the same instructions in Part 1 above.
• A TREE statement will show folder structure along with files in the various folders.
• The batch file will end with a PAUSE statement, so that the command window stays open when execution of commands ends.
• Create a Desktop icon that runs the batch file from its location in folder 201A_Misc, and change the icon to a non-default one.

After you have your batch file working correctly, paste into your assessment document:
• The text of your batch file.
• A screen shot of the command window, showing that the batch file has run successfully.
• A screen shot of the shortcut properties.

Part 4: Optimise and configure operating system
On your version of Windows do the following:
• Configure power management settings to minimise power consumption. Paste into your assessment document two screenshots showing "before and after" power management settings to verify that they have been changed.
• Run msconfig. In the System Configuration dialog box, uncheck some programs or add-ins that you don't use every session. Paste a screen shot into your assessment document.

Part 5: Install an application
Select, download and install one application onto your PC. You may choose the application for yourself, but some suggestions (all free) are:

• 7-Zip
• LibreOffice.org
• a non-Microsoft Internet browser such as Mozilla Firefox
• any free trial of software that you are interested in.

Paste into your assessment document screen shots with brief comments for the following:

• Evidence that the application has been successfully installed
• Evidence of the the application in use.
• A screen shot showing a shortcut to the application in the Quick Launch bar. Note: If you paste a screen shot of your whole Desktop into the Windows accessory Paint, you will be able to crop out just your Quick Lauch bar, save the image file, and then insert it into your assessment document.

Attachment:- Computer operating systems and hardware.rar

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