4.5. Getting an A+

This chapter examines several Windows-based utilities. You find out about the following:

  • Disk maintenance programs, such as fdisk, defrag, and chkdsk, are used to improve performance and reliability of the disk subsystem.

  • Configuration utilities, such as the System Configuration utility, System Information tool, Registry editors, Registry scanners, Device Manager, and the Computer Management Console are used to view or change Windows configuration settings.

  • edit.com can be used to create or modify text files when notepad.exe or other editors are not available or appropriate.

  • expand.exe can be used to decompress Windows XP source files.

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