Troubleshooting – 11/17/2008

We finished up the book this afternoon by covering chapters 10, 11, and 12.  Which is to say that we looked at TCP/IP and other network protocols (ch 10), Internet Explorer settings (ch 11), and Performance Monitor and other performance monitoring tools that come with Windows (like Task Manager, MSConfig, etc.)

Next week, we won’t have class (yeah Thanksgiving week!), but when we come back the next Monday (12/1), we’ll have our second major test, which will be over Chapters 7-12.  Make sure you really prepare for it, it’s one of the last “real” grades you’ll get in this class.

Instead of classroom instruction, we’ll be actually fixing computers from here on out.  For that reason, this is several people’s favorite class in the program, and hopefully you guys will like it too.  After the exam, we’ll go over some brief housekeeping-type of items dealing with the flow of computers and also have a brief lesson on HijackThis, which is a great malware diagnostic tool.

Homework:

• No chapter work, but STUDY for that test!!!! C’MON!!!!