PC Hard Properties

Lab Hard Properties Guide

 PC Hard Properties. 1. what is the PC name of the computer you work on now. 2. Is it possible to change the name of your PC. 3. Identify the name of your work group. 4. Can you change your position into a domain. 5. What means improving the performance of your PC. 6. Identify the steps to improve the performance of your PC. 7. Identify the size of your hard drive. 8. Identify the speed of your PC.

 Browser & internet Properties. 1. Set the following address as a restricted sites: www.unizwa.edu.om 2. Set the following address as a home page: www.google.co.uk 3. Delete the cookies. 4. Enable the most pop-up windows from appearing on Win7. 5. Set the privacy of the Internet zone to High

Cookies

Cookies are not programs, in and of themselves. They are little pieces of text that web site's will save in your browser's workspace which may identify you or give some indication of your activity.

For instance, Yahoo used to use them to track when a user clicked on an ad within their site. The cookie would be saved in your browser identifying the ad that you clicked on. During your next visit, Yahoo would know which ad attracted your interest and they could try to push new ads to you of the similar vein.

This kind of tracking irked some privacy experts who were very critical of what they viewed as an "invasion of privacy". Cookies also became unfairly associated with Spyware as people assumed that if a site dropped a cookie on your system, every other site would be able to track what web sites you visited.

The truth is that cookies are only usable by the web site that created them. Other web sites would not be able to make sense of them at all, let alone use them to track your surfing.

Despite this, to appease privacy experts, most web browsers make it a point to provide a means to clear out Cookies or restrict which sites can issue them Are cookies safe? Cookies, in themselves, are generally harmless and are actually required for using certain functions of a website.

The information stored in these cookies can include: your IP address, which is usually logged anyway when you visit a website; your username, if logged into a website such as web-based email; the contents of your shopping cart, if shopping online.

Any sensitive information, such as passwords, is usually encrypted by the website before they are stored on your computer. When the cookie is accessed by the website again, the information is decrypted securely.

Although generally harmless and limited to 4KB (kilobytes) in size, it is good computer maintenance to delete your stored cookies every now and then, depending on how much you browse the Internet.

Each cookie is set to expire after a certain amount of time, which allows some websites to remember you for long periods of time. An example of this would be where you select a "remember me" option on a website you frequent, to avoid having to login each time you visit the website.

Most web browsers make it fairly straightforward to delete the stored cookies, see ourtips and tricks section and locate your web browser. You can also disable the use of cookies in your browser if you wish by following the instructions found in the same section.

Cookies are used by some websites to enable their sites to remember something about you.

The information that is stored in cookies (locally on your computer) can vary, some sites use it for preferences, whereas ecommerce sites may use them to remember what you have in your shopping basket. Disable cookies Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites for various different reasons. For instance, Your email provider may use cookies to identify you after you have signed in. When you sign out of your mail service, the cookie is either deleted or expired.

Other websites will often use cookies for identifying purposes, demographic statistics and also when you are shopping online to remember what you have in your basket. If you would like to disable the use of cookies in Internet Explorer (r), then follow the simple instructions below. rst click on TOOLS at the top of the screen, then click on INTERNET OPTIONS as shown below in fig 1.1:

Click on the Privacy Tab as shown below.

Now click on the ADVANCED button.

You will now see the Advanced Privacy Settings dialogue box, as seen in fig 1.1 below.

Select the Override automatic cookie handling option, as shown above.

First Party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting, and Third Partycookies refer to cookies that are set by a different website to the one you are visiting. You have 3 choices for each type of cookie:  Accept - Accepts any cookies.  Block - Blocks all cookies.  Prompt - Asks you before storing a cookie. Session cookies are cookies that will expire when you have finished your session on the website (some websites need these cookies enabled to function correctly).

Your choice for the 3 options will depend on your requirements, select whichever settings you want, and then click the OK button.