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Lab 4 / Using Management Interfaces

In this lab, you will learn how to access the principal management interfaces in
Windows 10.

1 ) If necessary, 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."
3) From the Quick Access menu, select System.
This settings page provides information about the PC status and the version
of Windows currently installed.

4) Take some time to browse other pages in the Settings app.

5) Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Task Manager. Alternatively, 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.
Tuk Man er File
Options View

Processes P Efforrnance App history Start-up Users Detai[E Services

0%
4% 27% 0%
Name Status CPU Memory Disk

Apps (2)

Paint 12.6 MB
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Task
Manager23.5 MB 0 Mbps
Background proce
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Synaptics0.8 MB OEbL14
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> [E] Antimölware O M8/5 0 Mbps
SEgo.o MB Go to details
Open file location 0 Mbps
Application
Fram5.7 MB Search online O MB's 0 Mbps
Application Fram0% Properties 9.6 MB O MS/s 0 Mbps
COM Surrogate0% 3.2 MB 0 Mbps

COM Surrogate 0% 1.3 MB o M8/s0 Mbps

Context Menu Utility 1.2 MB 0 Mbps

Context Menu utility 0% 1.2 MB o MB/s 0 Mbps

> Cotana (5) O MB's 0 Mbps

Fewer details
Encl task

"Killing" a process using Task Manager. Screenshot used with permission from Microsoft.
9) Close Task Manager.
1 1) Press START+X and select Computer Management.
12) Select each of the following snap-ins to view them:

o Task Scheduler—expand the node to view items in the task scheduler library.
You can see that Windows runs many processes automatically.

o Disk Management—this shows you a summary of the disks attached to the

computer and the drives (partitions and file systems) configured on them.

o 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 Panel icon that appears in
the search results.

Microsoft has removed Control Pane/ (and the legacy command prompt)
from the Quick Access menu in recent updates. You have to directly edit
the registry to recreate the shottcut.

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.

You do not actually have to match the case of the command when using
PowerShe//. The command environment is typically caseinsensitive.
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.
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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.

Ipconfig

Note that this executes in the same way as in the PowerShell CLI.

21) Close any open windows.