Computer Support/Windows/GUI Tools

This lesson covers GUI tools.

Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]

Objectives and skills for the GUI tools portion of A+ certification include:^[1]

Given a scenario, use appropriate Microsoft operating system features and tools.

Administrative
- Computer management
- Device manager
- Local Users and Groups
- Local security policy
- Performance monitor
- Services
- System configuration
- Task scheduler
- Component services
- Data sources
- Print management
- Windows memory diagnostics
- Windows firewall
- Advanced security
MSCONFIG
- General
- Boot
- Services
- Startup
- Tools
Task Manager
- Applications
- Processes
- Performance
- Networking
- Users
Disk management
- Drive status
- Mounting
- Initializing
- Extending partitions
- Splitting partitions
- Shrink partitions
- Assigning/changing drive letters
- Adding drives
- Adding arrays
- Storage spaces
Other
- User State Migration tool (USMT)
- Windows Easy Transfer
- Windows Upgrade Advisor
System utilities
- REGEDIT
- COMMAND
- SERVICES.MSC
- MMC
- MSTSC
- NOTEPAD
- EXPLORER
- MSINFO32
- DXDIAG
- DEFRAG
- System restore
- Windows Update