Maintaining Optimizing and trouble shooting windows XP

Service Pack-

                Service Packs Are Software Or Patches Released By Microsoft To Fix Specific Problems. If Any New Released Software Or Application Software File Are Not Compatible With Windows Files Then, To Update Service Packs Are Released. These Service Packs Are Released On The Basis Of Operating System.

Disk Maintenance Utility

                Windows Operating System Comes With Complimentary Disk Management Utilities To Maintain Hard Disk Health Properly. Basically There Are Three Types of Disk Utility, They Are

a)      Disk Defragmenter

b)      Scan Disk (Disk Scanning)

c)       Disk Cleanup

Virtual Memory-

                Some part of hard disk is treated as RAM for time being is called virtual memory. If any application open, if it requires little more RAM space it can consume a virtual memory space. File stores in virtual memory is called swap files and has extension of swap file is .SWP.

Device Manager-

·          Device manager is a database list of device connected in system.

·         If any device is disable than device manager displays cross mark “X” on corresponding device icon.

·         If any device is getting conflict with other device than device manager display “!” mark.

·         If any devices, device driver software is not installed than device manager display “!” mark on “?” mark.

Schedule task (start – programs-system-schedule task)

                Schedule task is a complementary service which Is used to start programs automatically whenever a user requires. To add schedule task, double click on schedule task option and press NEXT on popup and give the necessary option.

Event Viewers-

                This event is used to analysis the error on details. Event viewer is a database which keeps a track of all events of a computer. Event viewer displays 5 types of events. These events stored log files. System log and applications logs have error, warning and information events. While security log displays success audit and failure audit events.

Different Errors

a)    Ntldr file missing

Problem creates on- windows 2000/windows XP/server 2003 or 2008 on p4 Intel mother board.            

Reasons – 1) ntldr file may corrupted or missing.

                    2) Improper BIOS boot sequence setting.

Solution – check proper boot device which is containing ntldr file in boot sequence of BIOS.

                    If problem continues boot in to recover console copy ntldr file from i386 folder of CD-ROM. In to c :\>