Hardware Management in Windows XP.ppt

Hardware Management in Windows XP Device Manager Overview of device manager list of devices and status (example) driver details and upgrade (example) Plug and Play and device drivers BIOS and OS see new device and assign resources, install drivers If Windows does not have a driver: asks for disk/CD Managing unsigned drivers use Sigverif.exe for a list of unsigned drivers search windows\system32\drivers directory Windows behavior for unsigned drivers (example) System Restore How it works System Restore consists of two parts, file monitoring and restore point management. Restore points contains: