Friday, 26 February 2010

Operating Systems Basics - VISTA - continued;

The next requirement is to change to 32 bit colour and the screen resolution to 1024 x 768 pixels.


This can be achieved by right clicking on desktop, choosing personalise settings and changing the settings as required, remembering to apply settings.


The same utility as above the colour scheme and backgrounds can be changed.


Sounds can be edited by right clicking on the desktop too. The following devices can be conrolled from the volume mixer;


  1. Speakers

  2. Headphones

  3. Windows sounds






The firewall can be accessed by going to start, control panel and then choosing the security settings.




There the Firewall settings can be changed. To ensure that the firewall does not block incoming File and Printer Sharing or Remote assistance the correct box needs to be checked on the exception tab.


Update manager can also be accessed from control panel


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