All about the administrative tools in the Microsoft Windows XP

Computer and Internet with no doubt has made our lifestyle easier and accessible round the globe, but with this boon there's always a threat which has taken the front sheet in out conscious threats regarding the security. Each and every minute if you use your computer for your business presentation, financial details, communicating with your client and what so ever a security concern always raises the alarm. Here in this article we are going to take on the issue and attempt to explore the ways as of how we can play it safe with Microsoft Windows XP Administrative Tools.

There are several operating method available in the market but the commonly used one is the Microsoft Windows XP. Microsoft Windows XP has two versions Microsoft Windows XP Home and Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP professional has more administrative tools as compare to other the one.

There are several Administrative Tools in Windows XP which can be used to impose security on your computer support method lets see them one through one but before that here is a list

User Account .

Computer Management

Event Viewer

Device Manager

Services

Group Policy Management

Microsoft Management Console

Registry Editor

Here is a brief about them

User Account:

One of the major Administrative feature of the Microsoft Windows XP is the User account, only the user with the administrative account has right to make or provide privileges to unique user accounts on the computer method ie the Administrator has right to make accounts having administrative privileges. So manage the computer users according to their precedence and what short of rights and privileges to grant.

Computer Management:

Computer management is one of the common admin tool , having a bunch of features in it, For Example Event Viewer, Shared Folder , Local Users and Computers, Performance Logs and Alerts, Devices Manager . Here is a brief about Event Viewer and Device Manager

Event Viewer:

With the Event Viewer the Admin can keep track of the event occurring in the computer. This feature helps in keeping track of all this issue , with the computer, suppose the computer gets freeze while installing or doing anything , we can keep track of the possible reason for the issue. And start the troubleshooting according to that.

Device Manager:

This is the another feature available with the Microsoft Windows XP , with the device manager we call keep track of the hardware in the computer , as well as Troubleshoot possible issues with the hardware i.e. cases with drivers , etc

Services:

All the applications need some sort of services to work, these services work in the background, we can access this through Run >> services.msc, In a popup windows you will get all the services present in the computer. For Example consider the case of windows update, for windows update there's several services needed, i.e. RPC ( remote procedure call ) and for the printer services are print spooler . So you can track each and every service running on your method from here and handle unauthorized or suspicious one. One can also free some memory and CPU usage with checking the services way of starting which can be either set through hand or with the windows startup. Starting them through hand save your resource allocation for the time frame you don’t demand them.

Group policy Management:

Group policy Management, is one of the most common administrative feature which enable us to impose the restrictions at the group level .To get this feature follow the steps Run >> gpedit, this will bring you with a windows popup which has entries such as permit or disable to be imposed .this feature is only available in the Microsoft Windows support

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Microsoft Management Console:

MMC is one of the features which can be used to track and get back the default features of operating method which has been uninstalled or has been lost through the means. We can access this feature through Run >> mmc >> file >> Add snap in

Registry Editor:

Registry is among one of delegate thing in the operating method and amongst the most important administrative tool in the Microsoft Windows XP. Whenever we are adding or removing program from the computer either the entry in the registry is created or removed.

Security and threats can be handled and maintained if we are using these admin tools properly.