Operating System Customization

Operating System
Customization

Presenter: S. Ferguson

What is Operating
System Customization?

A customizable operating system is
one that can adapt to improve its
functionality or performance.

Quick Tip: You can
display the desktop
background as the start
screen background by
selecting the desktop design
on the personalize menu.

Multiple Choice

Windows

• Open source

• Close source

USING THE PC SETTING SCREEN

The Pc settings screen provides access to nine categories of settings you can
adjust when using the Start Screen. Each Category includes settings that apply
only to the start screen environment. The other settings are system wides
settings that also to the desktop.

USING THE PC SETTING SCREEN

C

Category

Use To

PC and devices

Change the appearance settings, display a list of devices connected to your
computer, and add a new device.

Accounts

Add a user and change your password and other settings for your user account.

SkyDrive

Select settings for working with SkyDrive, a location on a Microsoft server that
Windows and some applications can access.

Search and apps

Change how Windows searches when you use the search charm. Also, display
information about apps, such as those that can display notifications, which are
messages that appear in the upper-right corner of the screen

Privacy

Allow or block apps from sharing your geographic location and other personal
information.

Network

Select network settings, such as which wireless network connection to use if any.

Time and language

Change the date, time, region, and language on your computer,

Ease of Access

Make Windows easier to use for people with vision, hearing or other physical
impairments.

Update and recovery

Select settings for Windows Update, file backups, and system recovery,

Multiple Choice

Add a user and change your password and other settings for your user account.

• Skydrive

• Privacy

• Account

• PC setting

Multiple Choice

Make Windows easier to use for people with vision, hearing, or other physical impairments.

• Ease of Access

• PC and Setting

• Search and Apps

• Update and Recovery

NEUSING THE CONTROL PAL

Control Panel is a window that contains specialized tools you use to
change the way Windows looks and behave.

All Control Panel tools provide access to dialog boxes that let you select or
change the properties or characteristics of an object or group of related
objects. Most control panel tools affect the entire system.Some tools
apply to the desktop only. For example, you use the personalize tool to
change the theme, which is a desktop background and a set of colors,
sounds, and other elements that appear by default in the desktop
environment only.

Multiple Choice

_______ is a window that contains specialized tools you use to change the way Windows ______ and _______.

• Personalization

  Read and Explain

• Control Panel

  Look and behaves

• PC Setting

  respond and act

Open Ended

You use personalized tools to change the theme. Give one example mentioned

USING THE CONTROL PANEL

Category

Set options for maintaining the system, such as by using Windows
Update, and for keeping the system secure.

System and Security

Set Internet options, view network status, and perform other network
tasks

Network and Internet

Change the sounds on your computer, and change the setting for your
printer, keyboard, mouse, camera, and other hardware,

Hardware and Sound

Install and uninstall desktop applications and windows features, set
options for default setting and applications

Programs

Change user account setting and passwords

User Accounts and Family Safety

Change the appearance of desktop items, apply a theme or screen
saver and customize the taskbar. Applies only to the desktop

Appearance and Personalization

Change the date, time, region, and language you use on your
computer; and the format for numbers, currencies dates, and time.

Clock, language and Region

Change computer settings for vision, hearing, and mobility

Ease of Access

PERSONALIZING THE DESKTOP

APPEARANCE

The easiest way to personalize the desktop Windows is to select a theme.
Four elements: The desktop background image, the colors for window borders,
and the taskbar (called a color scheme)the collection of sounds that play to
signal system tasks, such as shutting down Windows and the screen saver.
Some themes are classified as Windows themes, which contain high resolutions
of the photogenic image. Windows also provides a few high-contrast themes
that make the items on your screen easier to see, especially if you have
impaired vision.

Multiple Choice

How many elements affect the Desktop Appearance

• 3

• 5

• 4

• None

CUSTOMIZING DESKTOP AND FOLDERS

ICONS

Besides changing the desktop theme, you can change the appearance of
the icons on the desktop. By default, the Recycle Bin icons appear on the
desktop. You can use the Desktop icon setting dialog box to add other icons
for tools you use often, such as the Control Panel, to the desktop. From this
dialog box, you can open the change Icon dialog box to change the
appearance of the desktop Icons.

WORKING WITH REGIONAL SETTINGS

CUSTOMIZING DESKTOP AND FOLDERS

ICONS

Besides changing the desktop theme, you can change the appearance of
the icons on the desktop. By default, the Recycle Bin icons appear on the
desktop. You can use the Desktop icon setting dialog box to add other icons
for tools you use often, such as the Control Panel, to the desktop. From this
dialog box, you can open the change Icon dialog box to change the
appearance of the desktop Icons.

Open Ended

What is this?

WORKING WITH REGIONAL SETTINGS

The time displayed in the notification area of the taskbar, which is called the system
time, should reflect the time zone for your location. The operating system uses the
system time to mark when files and folders are created and modified. In Windows,
you can change the regional setting and localize your computer, which means it
uses settings appropriate for a particular location.
In the time and language category of the PC settings screen and in the clock
settings, the date, your location, and the format windows use to display dates and
times.

WORKING WITH REGIONAL SETTINGS

SETTING ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS

Accessibility refers to features that make a computer easier to use for people who
might otherwise have trouble viewing the screen, hearing system sounds, or using a
mouse and keyboard. Devices with touch screens are easier to use for most people
because you can interact with them directly by touch, rather than manipulating a
mouse or other pointing device. Personal operating systems include accessibility
features that can heighten the contrast between colors on the screen, making
objects easier to see. Personal and Mobile operating systems provide tools that
Narrate text displayed on the screen and provide text or visual alternatives to sound,
such as captions for speech in videos.

SETTING ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS

CUSTOMIZING POWER OPTION

Computers consume power when you run them and even when they’re idle.
You should use only the power your computer needs to complete your current
task so you can conserve energy in general. If you use a mobile computer, such
as a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, power is a greater concern. Although mobile
devices use far less electricity than desktop computers, mobile computers get
the power they need from a battery, and you can draw power from the battery
only for a limited time before you need to recharge it. For this reason, mobile
computers display battery icons that show how much charge is left in the
battery.

CUSTOMIZING POWER OPTION

You use the power management features in the operating system to change the
power state of a computer. A power state is a set of conditions that determines
how much power the computer is using. Common power states range from fully
awake (consuming the most power), to sleep or standby, hibernation, and shut
down ( consuming no power), Windows provides the following power states.

CUSTOMIZING POWER OPTION

Sleep: In this power state, Windows saves your data and system settings in
temporary memory, blank screen, and does not perform any activities,
which conserves power. When you’re ready to use the computer again,
Windows quickly wakes up and resumes operations. Because your data is
saved in temporary memory, you could lose it if the power fails completely.
So it’s best to save your work before letting your computer go to sleep.

CUSTOMIZING POWER OPTION

Hibernation: Ideal for mobile computers, hibernation saves your
work to your hard disk, reduces the power for a specified amount of
time, and then turns off your computer. Windows put a mobile
computer into hibernation when the battery charge is critically low.

CUSTOMIZING POWER OPTION

Hybrid Sleep: As an alternative to sleep designed for desktop computers,
windows includes a power state called Hybrid sleep, which saves your data on
the hard disk ( not temporary memory) before putting your computer to sleep,
Using hybrid sleep your computer quickly resumes running your computer to
sleep.

Shut down: This power state turns off the power completely to save wear
and tear on your electronic components and conserve energy.

Multiple Choice

Ideal for mobile computers, hibernation saves your work to your hard disk, reduces the power for a specified amount of time, and then turns off your computer.

• Sleep

• Hibernation

• Hybrid Sleep

• Shut down

Multiple Choice

______this power state, Windows saves your data and system settings in temporary memory, blank screen, and does not perform any activities, which conserves power.

• Sleep

• Hibernation

• Hybrid Sleep

• Shut down

Multiple Choice

As an alternative to sleep designed for desktop computers, windows includes a power state called ________

• Sleep

• Hibernation

• Hybrid Sleep

• Shut down

Multiple Choice

This power state turns off the power completely to save wear and tear on your electronic components and conserve energy.

• Sleep

• Hibernation

• Hybrid Sleep

• Shut down

SETTING BASIC POWER OPTIONS

To work with the full set of power options in Window 8, you open the
power options window in the control panel. You can use the power
options window to set what windows does in certain conditions. These
basic options vary on whether you are using a desktop or a mobile
computer.

SETTING BASIC POWER OPTIONS

Require a password on wakeup- Select this setting if you want to protect
your data by requiring users to enter a password when the computer wakes
up from sleep.

Choose what closing the lid does: Specify what happens when you close
the lid on a laptop computer and your computer is running on battery power
or is plugged into a power outlet. ( This option is not available for desktop
computers)
Options include doing nothing, sleeping, hibernating, and shutting down.

SETTING BASIC POWER OPTIONS

Create a power plan- A power plan is a collection of hardware and system setting that
manages how your computer use and conserves power. If none of the default windows
power plans is right for your needs select this option to create your own.

Choose when to turn off the display: Specify how long to wait before dimming the
display and turning off the display when your computer is running on battery power or is
plugged into a power outlet. You can also set the screen brightness to use on battery
power and when plugged in, if your monitor supports this feature.

Change when the computer sleep: Specify how long to wait before letting the computer go
to sleep when running on battery power or when plugged into a power out.

SETTING UP A NEW USER ACCOUNT

When you create an Administrator account or a Standard account in Windows, you must provide your user
credentials which consist of at least a username and an optional password.
A password is a series of letters , numbers , spaces and symbols that you provide to access your file,
applications and other resources on the computer.

Multiple Choice

Kelly has several documents open on her laptop and is working concurrently on each one. She is about to leave for several hours to attend an off-site social function but will return to her documents later in the day. Which option below would save the most powerful and still ensure that she can pick up right where she left off?

• Hibernating the laptop.

• Shutting down the laptop

• Putting the laptop to sleep.

• Displaying the lock screen.

Multiple Choice

On the PC settings screen, you use the ______ category to add a new account.

• Accounts

• PC and Device

• Ease of Access

• Privacy

Multiple Choice

From which of the following areas in Windows 10 can you access Desktop customization settings?

• Desktop drop-down list.

• Calculator app.

• Desktop Customization wizard.

• Control Panel