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Just as a house is protected with numerous security systems and burglar alarms, the computer needs to be protected from virus attacks, spyware and hackers. For that your computer needs to be equipped with firewalls.

Taskbar displays each open item on your desktop -- no matter what that item is, it is referred as a task, short for task-in-progress.

Because it is tiring to open a lot of windows to find a program, it would be easier if you just create a shortcut of your often used program or file by putting it right on your desktop or a common folder, then start the program from the desktop every time you want to use it.

To organize objects or icons on your computer desktop using windows; You will have to use the mouse.

Objective is to provide understanding of manage file and folder compression, NTFS permissions on files and folders, optimize file and folder access, implement and manage disk quotas and shared resources.

On a daily basis, a network administrator will spend a great deal of time managing the peculiarities of his or her clients. “I can’t print!” a user will say, or “I printed my document an hour ago, and it still hasn’t come out of the printer!” Someone can’t get to a file that they needed access to “yesterday”.

To determine a user’s permissions to a specific file or folder, you add up all the allowed permissions for the username and for all groups in which the user is a member, and then subtract the permissions that have been explicitly denied for both the username and groups.

In the olden days, the 1980s in PC years, computers were stand-alone. There was only one way to share information, and that was to copy it from one computer to floppy disk, and then copy the information from the floppy disk onto another computer. Keeping information synchronous on all computers was difficult.

An exciting functionality has been carried over from Windows 2000, which you can use with Windows XP shared folders - offline caching.

Normally, when we’re talking about printers, we mean the piece of hardware that produces printed copy. In the Windows world, the printer is a software interface between the physical printing device and the Windows XP operating system. Therefore, before you can access your physical print device, you must first configure a printer.