Administration of System Windows 10 Is Not an Easy Task. to Simplify It

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Administration of system Windows 10 is not an easy task. To simplify it, Windows 10 is equipped with a number of tools, which enable us to maintain the operating system efficiently and easily. Administration tools are the applications that are located in the Control Panel, a number of tools used to monitor the system e.g. Performance / Efficiency, Viewing the Event etc. The goal of this laboratory class is to get familiar with the basic administration tools of Windows 10 operating system. To run Administrative tools In Start menu select Settings, Control Panel and then Administrative Tools (Fig.1).

Fig. Control Panel

Administrative Tools folder In folder Administrative Tools, which is located in Control Panel there are many administrative tools. The accessibility of the particular elements in this folder depends on the installed Windows 7 elements. In Windows 7 Enterprise the following administrative tools are available: Fig. 3 ControlPanel Component Services - Configure and administer Component Object Model (COM) components. Component Services is designedGrafika:Event for use Viewer.GIF by developers and administrators. Computer ManagementTable 1. Functions - Manage of Control Panel local and or their remote location in computers Windows 2000, by98, NT using a single, consolidated desktop tool. Using Computer Management,Function you can perform many tasks,Available such in as monitoring system events, configuring hard disks, and managing system performance.Windows 2000 Professional Windows 98 Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Add/Remove User Manager - Start/Programs Users and passwords Control Panel / Users Data Sources (ODBC)Users - Use Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) to/Adminstrative move data tools from one type of database (a Adminstrative In menu Programs (if on) or in System Tools in Tools\Programs Start/Programs data source) to another.Tools Control Panel \Accessories MS–DOS All Programs/Accessories/ Programs/MS-DOS Prompt Console in Control Panel Event Viewer - Viewconsole informationCommand about Prompt significant events, such as a program starting or stopping, or a security error, which are recordedDevices in eventControl logs.Panel/System Control Panel/Device Manager Devices in Control Panel configuration /Hardware/Device Manager iSCSI Initiator - ConfigurePhone advancedControl Panel/Phone connections and between storage devices on a network. Control Panel/Modems Modems in Control Panel connections modem connections Local Security PolicyDisplay -effects ViewControl and Panel/Display/Effectsedit Group PolicyControl security Panel/Display/Plus! settings. Control Panel/Display//Plus! Game Control Panel/Gaming Control Panel/Multimedia Control Panel/Game controllers Performance MonitorControllers - ViewOptions advanced system information about the/Devices central processing unit (CPU), memory, hard disk, and network performance. Print Management - Manage printers and print servers on a network and perform other administrative tasks. Services - Manage the different services that run in the background on your computer. System Configuration - Identify problems that might be preventing Windows from running correctly. Task Scheduler - Schedule programs or other tasks to run automatically. Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - Configure advanced firewall settings on both this computer and remote computers on your network. Windows Memory Diagnostic - Check your computer's memory to see if it's functioning properly.

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Administrative tools Double-click the Services icon.

Expand the width of the “Services” window so you have a clear view of the content. Scroll down in the right pane until you see the service Routing and Remote Access.

Double-click Routing and Remote Access.

The “Routing and Remote Access Properties (Local Computer)” windows opens.

Laboratory 2 - Windows 10 Administrative Tools Part A. 1. Open the Control Panel (press WIN and tap control panel) and select System (this is most easily done if the control panel is in the small icons display mode), and provide (try to find) the following information about your computer:

Manufacturer: ______Rating: ______Model: ______Processor: ______RAM: ______System Type: ______Computer Name: ______Prod. ID: ______

2. Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) Score. In order to do it: a) Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type perfmon into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Performance Monitor. b) Expand open Reports, System, and System Diagnostics in the left pane of Performance Monitor

c) Under System Diagnostics, click/tap on a report that was created (collected) on the date and time you want to view.

d) If you don’t see any report, you have to prepare it: i. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type perfmon /report and wait until report will be finished. ii. After go to the point a.

Give the rating values for the following:

Processor: ______Memory(RAM): ______Graphics: ______Gaming graphics: ______Primary HD: ______

Laboratory 2 - Windows 10 Administrative Tools Part B.

Resource Monitor - In Windows 10 the Resource Monitor has its own dialog box which can be accessed in a number of ways. We will find and open the Resource Monitor using Search Programs and Files under Start. The Resource Monitor application is also called resmon.

Overview Tab - Provides information about the performance of the four major subsystems CPU, Disk, Network, and Memory.

CPU Tab - Displays the individual processes running on the machine, the process ID's (PID), the status of each running process, the number of threads controlled by the process, and average CPU utilization.

Memory Tab - Shows the process information as displayed on the CPU tab with an overview of memory allocation in the form of a graphical representation. It also shows the number of hard faults (attempts to access memory not in RAM).

Disk Tab - Used to display the disk activity, showing the Processes With Disk Activity, disk Activity, and Storage. Also maintains a graph of disk transfer in KB/sec and disk queue length (the amount of data currently waiting for transfer to RAM for processing).

Network Tab - Provides information about network communications with your computer including all the connections by and to your machine through the LAN and the Internet.

1. How many CPU's are listed by the Resource Monitor of your computer? ______

2. How much active memory is in use______, free ______on your computer?

3. List the top three Processes with Network Activity ______

Laboratory 2 - Windows 10 Administrative Tools Part C.

Performance Monitor - Using the Performance Monitor (aka perfmon.exe) you can create your own real-time counter or collect and record counter data for any OS subsystem. From Start find and run perfmon.exe.

In the left pane of perfmon, choose the Performance Monitor item and add a new counter using the following procedure.

i. Click the Add button on the toolbar (a green +).

ii. Make sure that Select Counters From The Computer is displaying (Later we will make use of the remote monitoring capability).

iii. Select a performance object from the drop-down list. All Windows 10 system resources are tracked. These include Cache, Memory, Paging file, Process, and Processor.

iv. Select the counter(s) within the selected performance object you want to track. For now you can add Processor to the monitor.

v. Select < All Instances> to track all the associated instances or pick specific instances from the list box.

vi. Click the Add button to add the counters for the selected performance object.

vii. Repeat 2 through 6 to include any additional counters you would like to track. Then click OK.

After you’ve added counters, you can select a specific counter by highlighting it in Performance Monitor. To highlight a counter, click it and then click the Highlight button (which looks like a highlighter) on the Performance Monitor toolbar, or select the counter and press Ctrl+H. To stop showing data for a counter, deselect the check box under Show for that counter. To remove a counter, highlight it in Performance Monitor and click the Delete button on the toolbar. The Delete button looks like a red X.

Prepare PrintScreen of Performance Monitor.

Prepare following counters: %Processor Time, %User Time %Privileged Time and %Idle Time for your processor(s) as you answer the following questions.

1. What is the effect on %Processor Time of rapidly scrolling through a document such as a .pdf file? ______

2. If you have more than one processor/core being monitored. How do the %Processor Times compare during the active described in (a)?

______

3. Run graphics-intensive applications while monitoring your Processor(s) %User Time. Describe the result (what you started and what was effect)

______

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Laboratory 2 - Windows 10 Administrative Tools Part D.

Using the Performance Monitor (aka perfmon.exe) you can create your own real-time counter or collect and record counter data for any OS subsystem.

Run Performance monitor: Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Performance Monitor

Prepare data collectorExpand Dataset: Collector Sets > right-click User Defined > New > Data Collector Set.

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In the Name field, type Memory Logs. Select the Create manually (Advanced) radio button > Next. IT Essentials Chapter 5 Lab The “What type of data do you want to include?” screen appears. The “Create new Data Collector Set” window opens.

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In the Name field, type Memory Logs. Select the Create manually (Advanced) radio button > Next. Select Performance counter > Next. The “Which performance counters would you like to log?” screen appears. The “What type of data do you want to include?” screen appears.

Click Add.

From the list of available counters locate and expand Memory. a. In the Name field, type Memory Logs. Select the Create manually (Advanced) radio button >

Select PerformanceNext. counter > Next. The “Whichb. performance In thecounters “What would you like totype log?” screen of appears. data do you want to include?” window choose Performance counter © 2013 Cisco and/or itsc. affiliates. AllIn rights the reserved. “WhichThis document is Cisco Public.performance counters Page 23 of 33 would you like to log?” window click Add d. From the list of available counters locate and expand Memory and Select Available MBytes > Add. Set the Sample interval field to 4 seconds. e. Click next

In the next step define position of folder for data saving: C:>MyPerf, click OK.

Select Available MBytes > Add.

The “Where would you like the data to be saved?” window appears.

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The “Create the data collector set?” screen appears. The “Create the data collector set?” screen appears à click finish. Expand User Defined > select Memory Logs > right-click Data Collector01 > Properties.

Click Finish. Expand User Defined > select Memory Logs > right-click Data Collector01 > Properties. The “DataCollector01 Properties” window opens and Change the Log format: field to Comma Separated. © 2013 CiscoThe and/or “DataCollector01 its affiliates. All rights reProperties”served. This document window is Cisco opens. Public. Page 27 of 33

Change the Log format: field to Comma Separated. 1. Go to File tab. What is the full path name to the example file name?: ……………………………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………………………….. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 28 of 33

Click OK.

Start the data collection set for MemoryLog (Click the green arrow icon). To force the computer to use some of the available memory, open and close a browser. Stop the data collection set (Click the black box icon). Find and open the prepared data collector. 2. What do the columns show? How can you interpret results? ……………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. Prepare other data collection, processor user time monitoring, when during run two or more videos. Describe the result. Run two or more videos and describe the changes you see.

4. What is the effect on %Processor Time of rapidly scrolling through a document such as a .pdf file?

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In Administrative Tools folder expand Event Viewer > Windows Logs > select System

Fig. Event Viewer 1. SelectExpand the Event event withViewer warning > Windows in the Logs list. > Look select below System the. General tab then explain what has

happened:Select the second event in the list. …………………………………………………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………………………………………………….Look below the General tab then explain what has happened to the Windows Defender service.

Give: Source:Click the up arrow button on the keyboard or select the event above the one you just viewed. User:

2. Try to find more information about event: https://www.howtogeek.com/eventid

3. Using Filters and Custom Views

For best results, you would want to filter by just the specific things you want to see – probably Critical, Error, and Warning, and then pick the specific event logs you want this view to look through. Don’t select too many, though, because it will just fail to work.

Look below the General tab then explain what has happened to the Windows Defender service.

Close all opened windows.

Step 2 You will explore what happens when a service is stopped then started. Once you’ve selected what you want in the view, you’ll be asked to give the custom view a name, and then youNote: can If use Network it to see is notjust shown the events in the that Start you’ve menu, filtered complete for. the It’s following: an incredibly Right-click great Startway to > Propertiesdeal > with massiveStart Menu logs fulltab. of Click nonsensical Customize information, and then events. scroll down the list to Network. Place a check mark next to Network, and then click OK > OK.

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 4 of 33 There are a lot of interesting logs to look at when you are troubleshooting, but one of the most interesting is found by browsing through the folders to the following location: Microsoft \ Windows \ Diagnostics-Performance.

This results in an event log that shows all of the things that Windows logs internally for performance checking – if your computer boots up slower than normal, Windows will usually have a log entry for it, and will often list out the component that caused Windows to boot more slowly. 4. Prepare your filter to find events Diagnostics-Performance.

Laboratory 2 - Windows 10 Administrative Tools Part E.

1. Which tool/tools in the Control Panel enables to check your computer’s name and to determine the way the application use the memory? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …….

2. Which Control Panel element constists of: Add or Remove Programs and Add/Remove system components? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …….

3. What options are available on the Advanced tab in the System Properties Dialog Window? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …….

4. What is the interupt of the real time clock? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …….

5. What is the value of the environment variable CompSec? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …….