Windows XP Server 2003 Overview

In September 2001 Microsoft released an upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional called Windows XP Professional.  Windows XP comes in four variants, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Centre Edition and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Unlike Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition has limited networking support and is designed solely…

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Windows Quickstart Quiz

This quiz covers the the training module “Windows Quickstart”.  This module contains seven lessons. Here is a summary of the previous lessons. The first lesson is “Introduction to Hardware“ The second lesson is “Introduction To Networking”. The third lesson is “An Introduction To Microsoft Windows”. The forth lesson is “Managing Files and Folders”. The fifth…

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Server Roles in Windows Server 2003

The term server refers to a machine that is providing a service for other machines, e.g. A computer which shares files on the network would be classed as a file server. For example, A Domain Controller is classed as a server because it is providing a service for the rest of the clients on the…

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Desktop and My Documents

The Windows desktop provides a convenient location for storing files and folders. The desktop can contain shortcuts to applications and documents that you access frequently. This lesson is based on Windows XP, but if you understand this you will understand how the desktop works in all the other versions of Windows too! Use the buttons…

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