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1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

It sees if your PC is ready for Windows 7. It scans your hardware

Only Windows Vista can be directly upgraded to Windows 7 and only if you upgrade within the same processor architecture (X86 or X84).

Windows 7 Ultimate.

You can upgrade to a more advanced edition of Windows 7�say from Home Premium to Ultimate and take advantage of extra features while keeping your current programs

All you have to do is purchase an upgrade key from Microsoft or another authorized retailer to unlock those new features.

Boot into Windows Vista to initiate a direct upgrade to Windows 7

Only Business Track Windows 7 editions (Professional

You create an answer file and place it on removable media. By default

They are written in XML and be created using the Windows System Image Manager or a text editor like notepad.

Only a local administrator

Streamline and simplify user state migration during large deployments of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. USMT captures user accounts

Comes with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState commands to migrate application settings to computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState commands to migrate user folders

Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState tools to migrate all user folders and files that resides on the root of any drive and in the Users directory. However

A CONFIG.XML file

You need to specify the files on both command lines using the /i option. Unlike previous versions of USMT

Generates a space-estimate file called Usmtsize.txt. This option does not collect the user state. You must also specify /nocompress.

Perform an offline migration

Migrates EFS encrypted files?

It create a report of which files will be migrated

Offline migration is a new scenario in which enables the ScanState tool to run inside a different Windows operating system than the Windows operating system from which ScanState is gathering files and settings.

Windows PE and Windows.old.

No

No they are disabled

Installing and imaging on hardware agnostic systems as long as the processor architecture is the same (32 or 64 bit)

The latest Vista Service Pack

You will need to run Startup Repair from within the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE)

Boot Configuration Database - Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files provide a store that is used to describe boot applications and boot application settings. The objects and elements in the store effectively replace Boot.ini.

Is a command-line tool for managing BCD stores. It can be used for a variety of purposes

BCD boot file creation and repair tool. The bcdboot.exe command-line tool is used to copy critical boot files to the system partition and to create a new system BCD store.

Updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You can use this tool to restore the boot sector on your computer. This tool replaces FixFAT and FixNTFS.

Command-line tool for creating an image file (.iso) of a customized 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows PE. You can then burn that .iso file to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Oscdimg supports ISO 9660

A text-mode command interpreter that enables you to manage objects (disks

Tools adds out-of-box drivers to a booted Windows PE image. It takes one or more driver .inf files as inputs.

The Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool replaces the pkgmgr

It can be used to configure an unattended install of Windows 7. The answer file is now an XML file instead of an INF file. You should to use Windows System Image Manager to create the XML file. To use this XML file

The system will shut down. The next time you start this system (after cloning it)

A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome

Expose a WIM file contents through Windows Explorer. You can run BCDEDIT.EXE against the mounted image to create or modify the image's boot configuration database.

Divide up a large WIM file into multiple smaller .SWM files

Boot the computer with a WINDOWS PE disk that contains a copy of IMAGEX.

Writes changes to a mounted WIM file

It can add a driver to an offline WIM image with the /Add-Driver option

It can enable a windows feature on an offline image with the /Enable-Feature option

Used to get a list of installed 3rd party drivers

By using the DISM command with a /Set-Edition option: Example: DISM /IMAGE:C:\SAMPLE.WIM /Set-Edition:Ultimate

Yes

Modify the PE image using DISM by adding the WINPE-Scripting package to BOOT.WIM

Use the BCDEDIT.EXE command

Can be used to create virtual hard disks

It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.

It improves performance

ImageX utility can extract the required operating system edition directly to the attached VHD file in Windows 7.

It is submitted to Microsoft for device signing to ensure the driver was adequately tested and will not affect the integrity of the operating system. Critical files are digitally signed so that any changes to these may be easily detected. However not all drivers are digitally signed

It will display driver signing status

It insert drivers into the Windows Driver Store so that users can add the associated PNP hardware without having to provide the driver or administrator credentials

Devices and Printers Control Panel applet has a

If you are logged in as an administrator you can shrink an existing partition or volume to create unallocated disk space

1

Use the Import Foreign Disk option on the target computer

You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume

At the volume level

It can speed up your computer by using storage space on most USB flash drives and flash memory cards. ReadyBoost is designed to help when your PC's memory is running low. Low memory can make your computer sluggish because Windows

When you plug a ReadyBoost-compatible storage device into your computer

Plug in the drive and then select properties of the drive. You can make changes through the ReadyBoost tab.

A new Microsoft proprietary file system supported in Windows 7 which is intended for flash drives but often called FAT64 - limit of 264 bytes (16 Exabytes).

Yes

You can allow by adding the device vendor's GUID to the allow list in a GPO.

It contains the necessary tools and documentation to evaluate and mitigate application compatibility issues before deploying Windows 7

Yes

So you can use a system management solution

By coping the application compatibility database to a network location and run a logon script that includes SDBInst on each computer

Install and run many Windows XP productivity applications directly from your Windows 7-based PC. It utilizes virtualization technology

A processor that supports the hardware virtualization using either the AMD-V or Intel VT options. 256MB of RAM is dedicated to the XP client so the Windows 7 computer should have at least 2GB of overall RAM. Windows XP Mode is only available in Windows 7 Enterprise

You start by selecting Windows XP Mode from the Windows 7 Start Menu. You can install applications in Windows XP Mode just as you normally would on a physical PC. For example

where does it automatically creates a Windows 7 Start Menu Shortcut under?

Install Windows Installer Packages (.MSI) files. You can script the installation.

Modifies the installation of a Windows Installer Package (.MSI) and can be invoked with MSIEXEC.EXE

A new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that replaces the Software Restriction Policies (SRP) feature. One of the advantages of Applocker rules over SRP is you can assign a rule to a security group or an individual user.

Through a GPO under Application Control Policies in the Computer Security Settings Node.

Windows 7 Professional.

Each of the rule types. For example

such as executable files

For example

For example

To deploy the policy and understand its impact before enforcing it.

The import and export affects the entire policy. For example

The Application Identity Service

Use IPCONFIG or Status Details for the Network Connection.

It is where Internet access is direct and not routed through the VPN

Use the Connect to a Workplace option

They are AAAA records.

Use your computer's zone ID at the end of the destination address. The zone ID of an IPV6 address is locally significant.

ISATAP

IPV6 transition technologies

It pings with IPV6

The ICMP protocol.

A file that can be used to perform FQDN name resolution in the absence of a DNS server.

EAP authentication needs to be enabled for remote access authentication (dial up

By creating or modifying a wireless connection in Network and Sharing Center.

Use WPA with AES encryption. WPA-Personal requires a preshared key and WPA-Enterprise uses Radius Authentication.

Yes

A .WFW file

Create a Custom Rule. By default Predefined Firewall Rules apply to all computers sending network traffic.

Use the Advanced Firewall to define Connection Security Rules.

It is a command-line tool which relies on Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to execute remote commands. The basic syntax for WinRS commands is as follows: winrs -r:target command

An authentication method that completes user authentication before you establish a full Remote Desktop connection and the logon screen appears. This can help protect the remote computer from hackers and malicious software.

SP3

It makes it easy to share your libraries and printers on a home network. You can share pictures

Yes

Yes

Where you go to manage your documents

To perform very fast searches of the most common files on your computer. The easiest way to add something to the index is to include a folder in a library. When you do that

A user to submit a print job to a printer and manage their own print jobs through the Manage Documents permission granted to the Creator Owners Group. If you grant a user Manage Documents

To will ensure the clients download the appropriate printer driver.

It will prevent a user from deleting files in a folder. Granting Modify permission to the Creator Owners Group will allow users to delete the files they create but not the files of other users.

Yes

Use the Cipher.exe command line tool.

By an EFS Data Recovery Agent. If the computer is in a workgroup and the user has forgotten their password

Use it to generate an EFS user certificate

Use it to can backup certificates to a .PFX file that is password protected.

Issue a recovery agent certificate to a user and then import that certificate into a GPO that applies to the computer where that user will be allowed to recover any EFS encrypted files. EFS Data recovery agents are optional

Export and import it from another computer.

It which enables content from file and Web servers on a wide area network (WAN) to be cached on computers at a local branch office. BranchCache can improve application response time and reduce WAN traffic. Cached content can either be distributed across peer client computers (Distributed Cache mode) or centrally hosted on a server (Hosted Cache mode) depending on where the cache is located. Introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.

It operates by deploying a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in the branch office. Clients are configured with the fully qualified domain name of the host computer so that they can retrieve content from the Hosted Cache

Distributed Cache mode. In this mode

Certain firewall rules configured for the Peer Discovery and Content Retrieval.

Clear the content being cached

Client computers must be running Windows 7

Credentials

In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 it enhances the productivity of mobile workers by connecting them seamlessly and more securely to their corporate network any time they have Internet access�without the need to VPN. When your IT department enables DirectAccess

standards-based technologies that DirectAccess is built on?

IPsec to authenticate both the computer and user

Clients establish an IPsec tunnel for the IPv6 traffic to the DirectAccess server

One of the tunnels if DirectAccess by using a computer certificate. This tunnel provides access to an intranet Domain Name System (DNS) server and domain controller

One of the tunnels if DirectAccess by using both a computer certificate and user credentials. This tunnel authenticates the user and provides access to intranet resources and application servers.

Yes

Modify the service startup to automatic and also enable the proper NAP enforcement client (DHCP

Enterprise and Ultimate versions. The limitation refers only to the ability to enable protection on a removable storage device. Once BitLocker To Go is added to a storage device

A new feature for Offline Files & Folders. Prior to Windows 7

The first time a user opens a file in a shared folder

By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.

Through Group Policy at Computer configuration | Administrative Templates | Network | Offline Files | Enable Transparent Caching.

It is the Microsoft SMB client for accessing shared network resources

Used to control power settings and configure computers to default to Hibernate or Standby modes. For example

It enables you to surf the web without leaving a trail in Internet Explorer. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web. You can start InPrivate Browsing from the new tab page or the Safety button.

Some information�such as cookies and temporary Internet files�so that the webpages you visit will work correctly. However

Suggested Sites

You will be prompted to reconnect online. To disable offline mode

A tool for controlling the types of content that your computer can access on the Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor

A CA users trust or they will get error messages when trying to securely access a web site. They can avoid the error by installing the CA certificate to the Trusted Root Certificate Store.

Only sites added to the local Intranet Zones

Yes

Disable AutoComplete in Internet Explorer

Problem history but also application installation history.

Which processes currently consume a resource like processor utilization.

WECUTIL QC

WINRM QUICKCONFIG.

Enable remote management on a computer and create the proper inbound rules on the advanced firewall.

Increase the minimum size of your paging file. Windows sets the initial minimum size of the paging file equal to the amount of random access memory (RAM) installed on your computer plus 300 megabytes (MB)

Creates a bootable CD that runs the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE)

Attach to the VHD file created by Windows Backup. You can attach to a VHD file using Disk Management or DISKPART

A network location.

Boot to a Windows 7 setup DVD and run System Restore or boot to a System Repair Disk.

To another hard disk in the same computer

A feature that regularly creates and saves information about your computer's system files and settings. System protection also saves previous versions of files that you've modified. It saves these files in restore points

For the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.

System Restore Points as well as Previous Versions of Files (configured through the System applet).

If your computer is running slowly or isn't working properly

No

Problem Steps Recorder in the Windows 7 operating system is a feature that enables users to record their interactions with an application and provide a detailed screen-by-screen view with accompanying information including mouse clicks and keyboard input. It then saves these screen shots into a web archive single file with a .MHT extension. It can be used by end users to record the problem they are experiencing and submit a single pages summary of their problem to a technician for assistance.

Use Safe Mode and then roll back the driver if it was recently updated.

When the OS loads using MSCONFIG.EXE which is also known as the System Configuration tool.

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Hovering over a taskbar icon shows thumbnail of that program. Hovering over the thumbnail shows a preview of that program in full view. Aero Peek also refers to the Show desktop button to the far right of the new taskbar.

Shaking (quickly dragging back and forth) a window minimizes all other windows. Shaking it again brings them back.

Clicking and dragging a window to the right or left side of the desktop causes the window to fill the respective half of the screen. Snapping a window to the top of the desktop maximizes it. Resizing a window to touch the top or bottom edge of the screen maximizes the window to full height

Windows Aero was revised to be more touch-friendly.

A WDDM driver for the graphics card and a Windows Experience index of 3.0 or greater.

They are designed to provide concise and impartial information about the content in computer and video games so consumers

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate Editions

Enabled searching for content on remote locations right from the Explorer itself. Integrating federated search into Windows gives users the benefits of using familiar tools and workflows to search remote data. This enhanced integration provides the added benefit of highlighting matches within the searched document. Windows 7 enables federated search via the public OpenSearch standards. Other improvements are the consistent UI for remote search results within Windows Explorer and the ability to drag and drop files listed in the search results between different locations. To create a federated search connector

Create persistent connections to computers with POWERSHELL

Create a customized shell

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Who can shutdown a computer

Modify/Create a GPO

Scan through the %WinDir%\WindowsUpdate.log (ie. C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log) file.

The Default Programs Control Panel applet

Default Programs Control Panel applet

Use the Programs and Features Control Panel applet to

Restrict when a child can logon to a computer.

No

It is a security component that enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators

Through a GPO.

Use SYNC Center

Run: Cscript slmgr.vbs /dl