week 7

This week we learned about virtualization, hardware failure rates, and how to trouble shoot common issues on windows such as the blue screen of death and a computer lock up.  The part of this week’s course that I was most familiar with before the course would have to be windows trouble shooting and the blue screen of death.  This is mostly because I am a heavy computer and general technology user like I imagine anyone taking this course is due to the nature of it and windows while a very open and well-functioning operating system is definitely not perfect and with something that can be used as heavily as your phone, or computer even a small percentage failure rate will eventually be hit and have a corrupted download, a hard drive failure, or any number of other possible issues being able to properly use windows diagnostic software and safe mode is almost a necessity.

week 6

This week in Computer Hardware and Software Management we learned about the different file types such as exFAT, NTFS, FAT32 and CDFS.  CDFS stands for CD file system and it is the file type you get when you export tracks from a CD.  ExFAT and FAT32 are file types most commonly used for thumb drives FAT32 is the older of the two so most flash drives tend to use it as basically anything can access it unfortunately FAT32 comes with quite a few limitations in its memory storage it can’t store more then 4 GB as one file and can’t store more than 8 TB total with this system exFAT is almost the same as FAT32 except without limitations.  NTFS is the main file system put into place for windows it allows partition and main file sizes with almost no limit and is normally read only on MAC and Linux systems.

week 5

This week in computer hardware and software management we learned about operating systems more specifically windows 10 from the videos and how to install or do a clean reinstall for it among other things.  We also watched videos about how to get better performance with windows 10 and just learn about all the different settings and options you have at hand to play with.  We also learned about hooking up storage devices to your computer and making sure that they are operational as well as other peripheral devices.  The part of this week that I found most useful to myself would be learning how to optimize windows 10 as I didn’t know about many of these features until this week that could help extend my battery life and get the maximum possible performance from my computer.

week 4

This week in Computer hardware and software management we learned about how replace power supplies as well as how important air flow is to a computer.  Proper airflow isn’t about simply having enough fans and having them properly placed to pull air from one side and out a different one after being run past all the main components in the chassis.  We also learned about how to change a power supply and the differences between PATA, SATA, and SCSI drives and how to tell the difference between them.  We also talked about defragging which is rearranging your hard drive for easier access to your files.