Lab 4/ Using Management interfaces In this lab, you will learn how to access the principal management interfaces in Windows 10, 1) Ifnecessary, start your computer and sign in. 2) Right-click the Start button or press START+X. This opens the Quick Access menu. This contains shortcuts to most of the tools required by "power users.” ee Deed Event Viewer Sead ed Network Connections Dad feces Ls ieee Windows PowerShell (Admin) peenvoee re Cece co cr ne ae Pere Quick Access menu. Screenshot used with permission from Microsof. 3) From the Quick Access menu, select System. This settings page provides information about the PC status and the version of Windows currently installed. Managing an OS Page 79Module 4/ Unit 4 Page 80 4) Take some time to browse other pages in the Settings app. 5) Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Task Manager. Altematively, use the Quick Access menu or right-click the taskbar. If necessary, click More details at the bottom of the window to show the tabs. 6) On the Processes tab, right-click Settings and select End Task You can "Kill" this task without risk of data loss but note that if you end a task that is processing unsaved data, the information will be lost. 7) Start Paint and draw a picture in the window. Do not save the file. 8) In Task Manager, right-click Paint and select End Task. 1G Teac Manager Fie Options view Processes |Porarmance| App hislry| Slab-up| Uses | Dealt Senders “ 4% ame sats ou Apps (2) > al Pa ox 26M eke GS) Be Background proces Reoucevaes > i etiiesmapicrr Seb = > CE Antimaluere Sere Te SAMPSS Te Got dese es = a pe fi cation i a Replication Fram Sesh one =e TF coMsunosete Pape = tse May m4 CF Cento Menu ty oe > Ei Conane (5) ® o% 1351 © Fever dese ons ones omer. ones omer ones onal. oer omer Network OMe: Mbps ob: oie OMe Mbps ob: ones Obits Mbps Ops nd tek ‘Kiling” a process using Task Manager. Screenshot used with permission from Microsoft. The Paint window closes without prompting you to save the image you created, 9) Note the division of processes into apps and background processes. The background processes run without a window, though some may be configurable via notification area icons. Click each of the CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network headings in tum to sort processes by how much of the computer's resources each is consuming 10) Close Task Manager. 11) Press START+X and select Computer Management.Computer Management is the default management console. Management ‘Menaging an OS consoles can be configured with snap-ins to control most of the "power" configuration options in Windows 12) Select each of the following snap-ins to view them: © Task Scheduler—expand the node to view items in the task scheduler library, You can see that Windows runs many processes automatically © Disk Management—this shows you a summary of the disks attached to the computer and the drives (partitions and file systems) configured on them. © Services (expand Services and Applications)—the shortcut menu for each service allows you to stop and start it or configure its properties. 13) Close Computer Management. 14) Press the START key and type control panel. Open the Control Pan icon that appears in the search results, g Microsoft has removed Control Panel (and the legacy command prompt) from the Quick Access menu in recent updates. You have to directly edit the registry to recreate the shortcut. With the latest feature update, there are relatively few configuration options left in Control Panel, 15) Optionally, browse some of the applets then close the Control Panel window. 16) Right-click Start and select Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell is an example of a Command Line Interface (CLI) 17) Type the following command then execute it by pressing ENTER. Get-NetIPConfiguration This PowerShell commandlet displays configuration information for the computer's network adapters. g You do not actually have to match the case of the command when using PowerShell. The command environment is typically case- insensitive. Using case makes the command easier to read and typing mistakes less common however. In Linux, the command environment is case-sensitive 18) Type the following command then execute it by pressing ENTER, ipconfig This is an older command that displays similar information. PowerShell can run both Windows command prompt commands and native commandlets. page 01Module 4/ Unit 4 19) Press the START key and type cmd. Open the Command Prompt icon that appears in the search results. 20) Type the following command then execute it by pressing ENTER, ipeonfig Note that this executes in the same way as in the PowerShell CLI 21) Type the following command then execute it by pressing ENTER. Get-NetIPConfiguration This produces an error message. The command prompt environment cannot understand (parse) PowerShell commanglets. When using a CLI, you need to understand which commands it can run as they are not all the same. 22) Close any open windows. Page 82