Mon March 9: more fun with CPU-Z and Everest, drive fitness programs, and some A+ certification materials to install

Greetings on a cold and dreary day; thank GOD we have computers to brighten things up a bit!

OK, here's where we stand, and here's what we gotta do:
A) With two exceptions, each of you has a machine running some version of Windows thats at least Windows 2000 (Evan and Mike, we will have to try and figure something out for you guys)
B) Each one of you should have some experience using the system information programs CPU-Z, Everest Ultimate and Belarc Advisor
C) Each of you should have at least the following programs installed on your machines:

• all three of the program mentioned in B) above
• some version of Firefox
• OpenOffice
• a pdf file reader (very important, you will need this today)
• some version of winrar, for extracting useful stuff from all sorts of zip files, rar files, isos, cabs, etc etc (you wont need it today, but you will pretty soon)
• additionally, I have also offered up some cool games, graphics creators and screen savers. Not truly necessary for this class, but I would hate for anyone to feel left out. Besides, when did I ever say this class has to be all work and no play?
  

If you are missing any of these files, please get up to me and let me know. Future lessons are going to require them!

OK, now for what you have to do today:
1) I didn't tell you before now, but CPU-Z has a very simple way of exporting the information it gathers, none of which involves you writing anything down yourself.
In CPU-Z, if you run the program and then go to the "About" tab, you can go to the bottom of the program and hit the "Register Dump" button which will create a little text file with all the information found. Do this, and then copy the results into an Open Office file which you will name after yourself, plus the phrase CPU-Z March 9. PLEASE HIGHLIGHT ALL PARTS OF THIS REPORT WHICH PRESENT THE SAME INFORMATION WE FOUND LAST WEEK

2) I also have two folders for each of you, mounted on a CD. The first folder has a choice of free antivirus programs; please just install any ONE of them. The other folder has both a pdf file that has to do with some "A+" certification material I have gathered, as well as an executable "test engine". PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN OPEN AND READ THE PDF FILE! PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN START THE TEST ENGINE.

Th-th-that's all, folks!

Mr. L