Utilities for Managing Operating Systems

Disk Management

managing long-term and short-term forms of storage

What falls under disk management?

Manage hard drives, optical drives, and other storage media, creating and deleting partitions, formatting partitions

Partitions

Clear the portion of the hard drive you want to use OR attach a file system to a portion of the hard drive

What is the primary purpose of partititoning?

Organization

Device Management

Find hardware components within the computer

What are the capabilities for device management?

Identify hardware specs of a device, update a driver, rolling back (or undoing an update) a driver, and uninstalling a driver

Process Management

utility allowing users to start, stop, and restart system processes through task manager

What process management is done through task manager?

Start, stop, and restart system processes,

Task Scheduling

Utility that allows you to create automated tasks

What is the benefit of task scheduling?

Allows tasks like displaying messages, sending emails, and executing applications to be completed faster than they would using manual access

Access Control Protection

defines who has access to files in the operating system and what they can do

What specifically does access control protection define?

Defines who can create new users and groups, who can install and uninstall applications, and who can set additional permissions on other items

Permissions

who can read, edit, or run programs in personal files

User Account Control (UAC)

How Microsoft manages access control