System Configuration

• The System configuration utility (MSConfig) is used for advanced troubleshooting, and its main purpose is to help diagnose startup issues.
• search on start menu to open it
• This utility comes with different tabs
  • General: We can select from different boot modes such as normal, diagnostic, or selective. We can choose what service to run and what not.
  • Boot: Defines Various boot options.
  • Services: list all services configured for the system regardless of their state. A service is a special type of application that run in the background.
  • Startup: There is only a link to task manager in this tab
  • Tools: List of utilities that can be used to configure the operating system further.
  • Notice the Selected command section. The information in this textbox will change per tool.

Change UAC Settings

• The User Account Control can be changed or disabled entirely.
• use the slider to change the priority.

Computer Management

• The Computer Management(compmgmt) utility has three primary sections: system Tools, Storge, and Services and Applications.

System Tools

• Task Scheduler- Carry out tasks automatically at the times we specify. It can run an application, Scripts, etc. Task can run at log in or log off

Event Viewer

• allows us to view events that occurred on the computer

• can be used to understand the activity of the computer system.

• Event Viewer has three panes.

  1. The pane on the left provides a hierarchical tree listing of the event log providers. (as shown in the image above)
  2. The pane in the middle will display a general overview and summary of the events specific to a selected provider.
  3. The pane on the right is the actions pane.

  There are five types of events that can be logged. Below is a table from docs.microsoft.com providing a brief description for each.

  

  The standard logs are visible under Windows Logs. Below is a table from docs.microsoft.com providing a brief description for each.

  

Shared Folders

• Complete list of shares and folders shared that other could connect to.