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Agenda

  Day One

   Hardware Vs. Software
   Static Electricity
   Heat
   Useful Tools
   Hardware

DayTwo – notes

    Software

   Backing up your Data
    External Backup Drives
    RAID Arrays
    Backup Software
    Backup Types

Day Three – notes

Day Four – notes

   Organize your Software

Related Resources

Reference Pages

Day Two Notes

Review Hardware Maintenance

• Study interior of PC, take photos if needed.

• Watch for loose parts (jumpers, etc.)

• Look for loose connections

• Look for obstacles to airflow.

• Make note of any odd sounds.

• Look for loose parts that may not belong.

Software Maintenance

• Backing up your Data

  • Importance of making regular backups.

  • Types of backups

    • Drive Image

    • Full Backup

    • Incremental Backup

    • Differential Backup

  • Backup Drives

    • External Hard Drives

    • Flash Memory

    • Optical (CD / DVD / Blue-Ray)

    • Others (Backup Tapes, etc.)

  • Raid Arrays

    • Mirroring

    • Stripe

  • Backup Software

• Managing the Windows Start-up Process

  • Sysinternals – autoruns.exe

    • The various ways things can start automatically

    • Where did these come from?

• Sysinternals – Process Monitor (Procmon.exe)

• Sysinternals – Process Explorer (Procexp.exe)

  • What is safe to stop?

  • What is this ‘svchost’ I see everywhere?