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Lab 04

MANAGING DEVICES
AND PERIPHERALS

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CONTENTS

A. Problem
B. Solution

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A. PROBLEM

A user has obtained a floppy disk driver,

which for some reason was not

automatically installed. How to install driver
for floppy disk?

An employee works from home has a

modem that is not correctly installing

automatically. You know from experience
that the Standard 56 Kbps Modem driver
provided by Microsoft works for this
particular modem. How to install this driver?

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An employee who works from home has a

computer that exhibits several problems

that you think are related to device
configuration. Because the computer if
offsite, how can you instruct user to create
a report, which can be sent in an email
message?

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B. SOLUTION

I.

Installing New Floppy Disk Driver

II. Installing Modem Driver

III. Printing Device Configuration to a Text File

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I. INSTALLING NEW FLOPPY DISK DRIVER

1. Remove Current Floppy Disk Driver

2. Implementing

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1. REMOVE CURRENT FLOPPY DISK DRIVER

Accessing Device Management

Uninstalling Floppy Disk Driver

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Accessing Device Management

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Uninstalling Floppy Disk Driver

Expand Floppy Disk Drivers

Right click at Floppy Disk Driver: Uninstall

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2. IMPLEMENTING
Running Add Hardware Wizard:
Control Panel System: Hardware

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II. INSTALLING MODEM DRIVER

Running Add Hardware Wizard

Choosing the Right Modem Model

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Running Add Hardware Wizard

Running Add Hardware Wizard:

Control Panel System: Hardware
Add Hardware Wizard

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Choosing the Right Modem Model

Select Standard 56000 bps Modem model

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III. PRINTING DEVICE CONFIGURATION

TO A TEXT FILE

1. Configuring a Text Only Printer

2. Printing Report

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1. CONFIGURING A TEXT ONLY PRINTER

Run Add Printer Wizard:

Start Printers and Faxes Add a Printer
Selecting a Local Attach Printer
Choosing Generic/ Text Only Printer

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Selecting a Local Attach Printer

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Choosing Generic/ Text Only Printer

Port: FILE

Printer model:

Generic/ Text Only

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2. PRINTING REPORT
Access Device Manager:

Control Panel System: Hardware

Device Manager

Print: Action menu print

Select Generic/Text Only printer
Given file name: C:\DevicesSummary.txt

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REFERENCES

Microsoft Official Academic Course 70-270:

Installing, Configuring, and Administering

Microsoft Windows XP Professional, 2nd Ed
Chapter 4, by Field Dave

Microsoft Official Academic Course 70-270:

Installing, Configuring, and Administering

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Lab
Manual Lab 4, by Owen Fowler