Desktop Management and System Specification Questions

Submitted by jeff on Mon, 2008-09-22 15:12.

Please answer these questions by clicking 'add new comment' below. 

  • What are the specs of your home and work computers? (Operating System, hard drive space, RAM)
  • How many folders are there in the root diectory of your home computer?
  • What is the upload and download speed of your home connection?
  • What's the largest file on your home computer? What directory is it in? What is its file extension?
  • What is the monitor resolution of your home computer. 
     

 Basic Training Screencasts and glossary terms should provide everything thing you need to answer these questions. 

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Okay, so my first attempt at

Submitted by shannon_c on Thu, 2008-10-02 21:41.
Okay, so my first attempt at an audio/video comment submission failed. Here are the answers to the other desktop mamangement questions that didn't get included in my previous post. My laptop is a Hewlett Packard computer that operates with Windows Vista. The computer has 147 GB of hard drive space and 1983 MB in RAM. I was able to run the download test at www.speedtest.net, but not the upload. I think it has something to do with the security settings on my computer that I am not familiar enough with to adjust. Anywhow, the download speed of this machine is 1533 KB/S. The interesting thing about this is that when I ran this test using the same computer at work, my download speed was only 504 KB/S. Does that show how horrible my office's internet connection is or what?! Moving along, my screen display setting is set at 1280 pixels by 800 pixels. There are 764 folders on my root directory. Yikes! I think I'm going revist the desktop management screencast and see up doing some system clean up. I noticed that a lot of the folders were duplicates. So, there you have it - my belated homework posting for week 1.

Root Directory Record

Submitted by jeff on Fri, 2008-10-03 09:17.

Wow! 764 folders in your root directory - I think that may be a record :) You can click and drag a folder into another folder, so creating several category folders that you can drag some of those 764 into might help clean things up a bit.

As far as the different download speeds, you are correct. The lower number reflects a slower connection at work. Results might also vary from time to time with the same setup based on the amount of network traffic at a given time.

Home and Work Computer Desktop Management Assignment

Submitted by shannon_c on Tue, 2008-09-30 12:19.

Well, let's see if this audio file worked.

The largest file on my personal computer is Setup. It is located in the C:\SWSetup folder. It has a .exe file extension.

The largest file on my work computer is IBMRNR. It is located in the C:\IBMTOOLS\IBMRNR folder. It has a .exe file extension.

Desktop Management and System Specification Questions

Submitted by christopher on Mon, 2008-09-29 21:45.

# What are the specs of your home and work computers? (Operating System, hard drive space, RAM)
Mac OSX 10.2.8 (6R73)

# How many folders are there in the root directory of your home computer?

# What is the upload and download speed of your home connection?
800MHz
# What's the largest file on your home computer?

What directory is it in?

What is its file extension?
script text
.applescript
compiled script
.scpt
scripting addition
.osax
scripting dictionary
.asdictionary

# What is the monitor resolution of your home computer.

Some Mac Tips

Submitted by jeff on Tue, 2008-09-30 01:40.
Here are a few guides from Tech Ease that might help Mac users find this type of system information  

How do I view the properties of a file or folder?

How do I use the Finder to manage my files and folders?

How do I find out how much disk space I have free to store files on my computer?

Will keep looking for more.

My Computer

Submitted by gteed on Sun, 2008-09-28 20:31.

What are the specs of your home and work computers?
Operating System - Windows XP 2002
Hard drive space - Capacity= 147 GB, Free= 123 GB
RAM - 448 MB

How many folders are there in the root diectory of your home computer? 2166 folders

What is the upload and download speed of your home connection?
Download=12880 kb/s Upload=2461 kb/s

What's the largest file on your home computer? What directory is it in? What is its file extension?
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Ulead VideoStudio\7.0 = 2.07 GB - Video Clip

What is the monitor resolution of your home computer 1024x 768

Assignment

Submitted by ellen on Thu, 2008-09-25 06:41.

What are the specs of your home and work computers?
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Basic
Hard drive space:106GB
RAM: 2.00GB

How many folders are there in the root diectory of your home computer?
19 folders

What is the upload and download speed of your home connection?
Download speed: 8386 KB/S
Upload speed: 809 KB/S

What's the largest file on your home computer? What directory is it in? What is its file extension?
The largest file: Play.cd2.mdf
Directory: c:\users\Ellen\Links\English\Play
File extension: .mdf

What is the monitor resolution of your home computer.
1024 by 768 pixels

My response

Submitted by jean on Wed, 2008-09-24 22:52.
Sweet pudding

1. These are the specs of my home computer:

32bit Operating System
220GB Hard Drive
2 GB RAM

2. There are 227 Folders in the root diectory of my home computer.

3. Download: 2826kb/s
Upload: 343kb/s

4. The largest file in my computer is itunesSetup.exe and it's in C:/user/Jean. The file extension is .exe

5. The monitor resoulation is Window Vista.