16.12. Answers to Review Questions

  1. B, C. To open a command prompt, you can use CMD or COMMAND.

  2. A. The EDIT command is a holdover from the DOS days and is used to edit text-based files. Notepad and Wordpad are both Windows-based utilities, and EDT does not exist.

  3. D. The C:\Windows\System32 directory is where many of the Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 system files reside.

  4. D. The SFC command will run System File Checker. The /SCANNOW option will scan files, and SFC automatically repairs files it detects as corrupted.

  5. D. To change drives at the command prompt, simply type in the drive letter and a colon, and press Enter. However, if you were previously at a specific directory in D: (say, D:\TEMP), then typing D: and pressing Enter would take you to D:\TEMP ...

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