Windows Activity

Practical Work 1- Windows

The first activity our group carried out, was devoted specifically to file management, data sharing, as well as data compression. This following entry will explain each of the excercises that we did in the activity and what we learned from each of them.

The first excercise we did was about folder and file creation. We created some files, put them into folders and finally compressed some folders along with some screenshots we took of our work.

The second excercise we did was related to data deletion as well as data recovery. To learn about this, we sent some files to the trash bin to delete them , but them recovered them in order to know how to recover accidentally deleted files. We also took screenshots to prove how we did this.

The third excercise we carried out was useful in teaching us how to search for specific files in the computer's hard drive. We searched the files by looking in the local hard drive located in My PC. In addition we had to take a screenshot of the procedure we had to carry out in order to search the files.

The fourth excercise taught us how to customize the aesthetic aspects of windows. This included how to change the backround, how to change the screen saver and other appearance-related tools. In this excercise we had to write a long answer which carefully explained how to change each individual aspect.

The final task that we carried out involved writing out a comparison between Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
We were also given the option of using the web to research each of these operating systems. However, we were only able to utilize the websites which were trustworthy.

With all of these tasks, we were able to complete the activity and thus learn more about Windows and its
functions that any Univerity student may find useful.