A+ Hardware/Software – 2/26/2008

Today’s class covered Chapters 5 and 14, which dealt with Windows software — namely installation.  We did Windows 95 and Windows 98SE installations, and I think everyone would agree: Windows 98 went much better.  As you’ll see over the next couple of weeks, the Windows installations just keep getting easier and easier.

We also did some more command-line stuff too.  Among others, we played with ATTRIB, COPY, MD, XCOPY, and more.  We also wrote batch files which made a directory system almost instantaneously.  The cool thing about batch files is that they can hold a collection of virtually any command line commands and be run in one big swoop: which is great for doing tedious tasks on many computers, or putting in the startup group to run each time Windows boots up.

Homework:

• Chapter 5: Review Questions
• Chapter 14: Review Questions