@mary said in Windows HomeGroups, WorkGroups, and Domains - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Is there any alternative to home group now that it isn't available on Windows 10? Also why would you use workgroup instead of Windows Domain? Is it a cost issue?

"Home Group" was just a fancy name for network sharing without AD on Windows computers.

@mary said in Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them.

So the cookie itself is just a text file. A tiny one. That's it. So the cookie itself does nothing.

The issues are if the cookie has something in the text and a browser reads it and does something it shouldn't because of it. But realistically, that's not going to happen.

The main concerns around cookies are that they help people to track you, but you need to be tracked. We've been conditioned to thinking that being tracked is a bad thing, but cookies are what lets us track you from post to post here in RoIT for example.

Pretty useful stuff. I played around with some of the commands on my laptop.

Very useful tool, specially when computer gets freeze.

Very interesting, this tool we always use to check Windows system configuration.

@brianwinkelmann said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

what about the Windows Defender, I mean the antivirus and the firewall of Windows They go hand in hand right?

They go together as in they are both security components of the Windows operating system. But that's about the extent of it. They are both very good, they should both always be used, they are both for the purpose of security. But they are not actually associated other than in name.

Most of these tools I have used at least once doing support on computers.

Useful tools for networking!

@brianwinkelmann said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Very Very Interesting, but the most important, this Command Line Tools are useful specially when you work remotely.

Or to be ready for when you suddenly half to!

Although they make you more efficient all of the time.

@brianwinkelmann said in Installing and Upgrading Windows - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Interesting! I just wonder if it is possible for example to copy or move a complete installation of Windows to another disk just copying the files, is that possible? I mean like copy for example the whole C:\Windows folder to another folder on another disk D:\Windows and try to boot the Operative system? Well I don't know if my question is a bit dumb, sorry if it is.

No, you can't just copy the files. You have to image the system.

Very interesting, specially the Scott's reply.

@brianwinkelmann said in Windows in the Enterprise - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Very Interesting, but I would like to check comments from other users about this features mentioned on the video, I mean all of them work properly and are useful at all? or there are another alternative like application or devices that can challenge with the features mentioned on the video? Well I just wonder.

Which features or apps do you mean?

Very Interesting, I like Windows 10 xD

@brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Interesting, I didn't know Windows 8 has many features, but I don't think I can consider install Windows 8 in a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with 3 GB RAM.

You should not consider ANY old OS, really ever. Outside of learning what support used to look like, which is effectively worthless, conceptually using an old OS is a bad idea. Windows 8, especially, is only one generation newer than Windows 7 which is already crazy old. Windows 8 is something like eleven versions old already!

@brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 7 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller Ohh I see it is a good Idea to try LINUX!

Yes, very good time. Something light. Because there are so few resources.

Try this..

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.5.0-i386-netinst.iso

@brianwinkelmann said in Operating Systems Overview - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

So the disadvantage to choose LINUX is based on the drivers for different devices that you will use

That's incorrect. Linux has much broader driver support than Windows, and both have much broader support than MacOS. Support for more hardware is actually a huge benefit to Linux. That's why Linux and BSD are available on more platforms than any other OS.

@brianwinkelmann said in Troubleshooting Hard Drives - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

Very interesting, I remember I've heard that sometimes to fix a hard drive that is damaged you can put it inside of a freezer with bags of course and it can be fixed, is that true or is a myth or a lie? Sorry about foolish question. xD

Not a foolish question Brian. We have some customers who have done it. The drives (other than the brand new high capacity helium drives) are not air tight. They have a filter. So moisture can get it and start to corrode the platters.

If it has been in the freezer, we have to charge extra as it has to be cleaned with a special cleaning solvent that is about $400-500 per gallon.

Also it can cause a drive that may have been a logical or a physical non invasive recovery instantly into a clean room job (the most expensive option). So it's best to do nothing to fix it. Bring it to a quality data recovery company (like mine!) and they will have the best chance of recovering the data.

@brianwinkelmann said in Troubleshooting Common Hardware Problems - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller but that was the red light that indicates that the CPU is not working.

I suspect that there is a speaker there, too. Just no beep codes from that machine. Look up the specific motherboard to see if it has beep codes.