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Lab 16

CONFIGURING MOBILE OPTIONS

|Exercise 16.1 |Configuring Power Options |

|Overview |In Exercise 16.1, you examine the power settings used in the default power plans provided in Windows 7.|

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|Completion time |20 minutes |

|Question 1 |How many power plans are available for your selection in the Power Options control panel? |

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Default Windows 7 power configuration settings

|Setting |Balanced |Power Saver |High Performance |

|Turn off the display | | | |

|Put the computer to sleep | | | |

|Question 2 |How do the different settings enable the Power saver plan to be more energy efficient than |

| |the Balanced plan? |

|Question 3 |How do the different settings enable the High performance plan to achieve greater performance|

| |levels than either of the other two plans? |

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Default Windows 7 advanced power configuration settings

|Setting |Balanced |Power Saver |High Performance |

|Require a password on wakeup | | | |

|Turn off hard disk after | | | |

|Wireless Adapter Settings \ Power | | | |

|Saving Mode | | | |

|Sleep after | | | |

|Allow wake timers | | | |

|USB selective suspend setting | | | |

|Power button action | | | |

|Link State Power Management | | | |

|Minimum processor state | | | |

|System cooling policy | | | |

|Maximum processor state | | | |

|Turn off display after | | | |

|When sharing media | | | |

|When playing video | | | |

|Question 4 |Which of the settings on the Advanced settings tab enables the High performance plan to |

| |achieve greater performance levels than the Balanced plan? |

|Question 5 |Which of the settings on the Advanced settings tab enables the Power saver plan to conserve |

| |more energy than the other two plans? |

|Exercise 16.2 |Creating a Custom Power Plan |

|Overview |In Exercise 16.2, you create power plans for your company’s desktop and laptop workstations. |

|Completion time |20 minutes |

8. Take a screen shot of the Power Options control panel, showing the power plans you created, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

|Question 6 |Which of the settings you configured in both of your new power plans will prevent the |

| |computers from operating at peak performance levels? |

|Exercise 16.3 |Using Powercfg.exe |

|Overview |Now that you have created power plans for your company’s desktop and laptop computers, you must |

| |determine how to transfer those plans to other computers. In Exercise 16.3, you use the Powercfg.exe |

| |command line utility to export your power plans from your NYC-CLa workstation and import them on |

| |NYC-CLb. |

|Completion time |10 minutes |

Table 16-5

Custom power plan GUIDs

|Power Plan Name |GUID |

|NYC-CLa Desktops | |

|NYC-CLa Laptops | |

11. Take a screen shot of the Command Prompt window, showing the successful import commands, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the Lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

|Exercise 16.4 |Using BitLocker |

|Overview |In addition to investigating power settings, your director wants you to examine the BitLocker feature |

| |included in Windows 7. For Exercise 16.4, you will use BitLocker to encrypt an external drive connected|

| |to your workstation using a password. |

|Completion time |10 minutes |

|Question 7 |Under real world conditions, why would it be unwise to store the recovery key on the |

| |computer? |

11. Take a screen shot of the BitLocker Drive Encryption control panel, showing that BitLocker is turned on for external drive, by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the lab16_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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