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Foundation Level PC Training Course

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1. An Overview of the PC

  • The Operating System
  • DOS and Windows
  • The CPU (Central Processing Unit)
  • The ROM-BIOS and the CMOS-RAM
  • PC Interrupts
  • DMA (Direct Memory Access)
  • Types of bus architecture
  • 'Plug and Play'
  • Getting HELP within DOS & Windows

2. Directories and Files

  • What are directories?
  • Manipulating directories under DOS
  • Using the Windows File Manager
  • The DIR command
  • What are Files?
  • File naming conventions
  • Internal vs. External DOS Files
  • Creating text files
  • EDIT vs. COPY CON
  • Renaming, deleting and undeleting files
  • Copying and moving files under DOS
  • Copying and moving files using the Windows File Manager
  • Viewing and finding files within DOS
  • Viewing and finding using the Windows File Manager
  • Manipulating file attributes

3. Disk Fundamentals

  • Types - Floppy disks (diskettes) and hard disks
  • Setting up a hard disk from scratch
  • Disk partitions
  • High level (logical) formatting
  • Diskette formatting considerations
  • Unformatting
  • Copying and labeling
  • Speeding up disk access with DEFRAG
  • Buffers
  • SmartDrive
  • Disk compression - DBLSPACE and DRVSPACE
  • Disk structures
  • The DOS Boot sequence
  • RAM Disks

4. Configuring Your PC

  • The CONFIG.SYS
  • The AUTOEXEC.BAT
  • The DOS PATH
  • The DOS Environment
  • Conditional booting
  • The DOS Boot sequence
  • 'Loading High'
  • Configuring a Windows-based PC

5. Memory Fundamentals

  • Type of memory chips
  • RAM and ROM
  • The IBM PC, the 8086 CPU and DOS
  • Conventional Memory
  • Extended Memory
  • Expanded Memory
  • The Upper Memory Blocks and the High Memory Area
  • Using the UMBs and HMA
  • Devicehigh and Loadhigh
  • Virtual Memory
  • Used by Windows!
  • Examining Memory

6. Basic Batch Files, I/O and Redirection

  • What are Batch Files?
  • REM and ECHO
  • GOTO and CALL
  • PAUSE
  • I/O
  • Device Names and Redirection
  • Piping 

7. Advanced Batch File Concepts

  • What are Variables?
  • Command line parameter substitution
  • Environment variable substitution
  • IF EXIST
  • IF ERRORLEVEL
  • DOSKEY Macros

8. Printers

  • Types of laser printer PCL vs. Postscript
  • Printer considerations
  • Printer drivers for DOS and Windows

9. Security, Backups & Viruses

  • What are viruses?
  • Virus protection methods DOS and Windows
  • Backups
  • Fixing errors on a disk 

10. Windows Fundamentals

  • The advantages of using Windows
  • Select, then manipulate!
  • Components of a Window
  • Maximizing, Minimizing and Restoring a Window
  • Moving and re-sizing a Window
  • Menus and Dialog Boxes
  • Multitasking within Windows
  • Using the Task List

11. The Program Manager, File Manager and Control Panel

  • Program Manager Groups
  • Manipulating groups and adding programs
  • File Manager terminology
  • Directories and drives
  • The Control Panel

 


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