Chapter 8. Management Options in Windows 7

Moving toward more advanced aspects of operating system management, this chapter helps you become familiar with Administrative Tools, System Properties, and Local Group Policy objects. While you might not be an IT guru, knowing how to manage your own system using the tools provided by Microsoft helps you feel in greater control of your own computing environment.

Administrative Tools

The Control Panel contains a shortcut to Administrative Tools. This shortcut takes you to a list of other shortcuts (see Figure 8.1).

Figure 8.1. Administrative Tools.

You may be familiar with many of these ...

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