ASSESS YOUR COMPUTER HARDWARE Computer performance is affected by many things. I
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ASSESS YOUR COMPUTER HARDWARE Computer performance is affected by many things. In this exercise, you'll learn a little bit about your own computer and how you might improve its performance by upgrading hardware components. Windows can provide many details about your computer's hardware through a variety of built-in utilities. For this exercise, you'll use the System Control Panel and Computer window If you are using Windows 7 1. Click the Start button and right-click Computer. From the context menu, choose Properties. 2 In the middle of the screen, under System, is the information about your processor and memory. What type of processor do you have? Is it multi-core? What is its clock speed? How much RAM do you have? 3 Click the Windows Experience Index. (Note- if you are using a notebook computer, you can't run this when you are on battery power.) What are the scores for your processor and memory? What is your low What can you do to improve your system's score? est subscore? 4. Click the Start button and click Computer. List all hard disk drives and devices with removable storage that are displayed. Include any additional information, such as size and free space, for each.Explanation / Answer
Windows 10
2) Processor Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U
Yes, multicore
Clock Speed: 1.70 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
3) C: 151 GB free out of 321 GB
D: 2.13 GB free out of 22.1 GB
F: 57.2 GB free out of 478 GB
4) Tips for using mouse safely:
(i) Location of mouse should be close to you and at elbow height
(ii) Move mouse using arm
(iii) Grip the mouse lightly
3 odd keys:
(i) Print Screen: pressing PrtScn captures an image of your entire screen (a "screen shot") and copies it to the Clipboard in your computer's memory
(ii) Scroll Lock: pressing Scroll Lock changes the behavior of the arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys; pressing these keys causes the document to scroll without changing the position of the cursor or selection
(iii) Pause/Break: This key is rarely used. In some older programs, pressing this key pauses the program or, in combination with Ctrl, stops it from running.