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Name: ___________________________________Lab 6: Managing AppsCIT271This lab covers Windows 10 Inside Out Chapter 6.Log onto your Windows 10 computer using your standard user account.A) What is a desktop application? B) How are they designed to run? (See page 171.)Answer #A:How are programs that are delivered through the Windows Store designed to run? (See page 171.)Answer #B:A) Why can you trust apps from the Windows Store? (See page 171.)B) What does it mean that these apps are “sandboxed”?Answer #C:Open the Start Screen.If the Weather app is not on your start screen, find it under “W”, right click on it, and choose “Pin to Start”. Open the Weather app and set it to Highland Heights, KY or to your hometown. Close it.This app updates the temperature and weather conditions. A) What is the term used to describe this type of tile? (See page 173.) B) How could you turn live update off? (See page 173.) Answer #D:When you install an App, it is installed for all accounts on your Windows 10 computer? (See page 175.)Answer #E:Under “M” on the Start menu, open then Microsoft Store. (See pages 175-6 and Figure 6-1 on page 176.)Search for “free”. (See page 176.)Under “Departments”, select “Games”.What is the first free game?Install this app. You do not need to sign in to your Microsoft account.Answer #F:Uninstall this new free game. How did you accomplish this task? (See page 178.)Answer #G:A) When an app stops working properly, what should you do to repair the app? (See page 180.)Follow the steps to reset the Maps app. (See page 180.)B) When you click on “Reset”, what message is displayed?Answer #H:Open the Figure on page 181 for the Weather app.What does it mean that the App permission “Background apps” is on? (See page 181)Answer #I:A) Is the Calculator app included with Windows 10? (See page 182.)Open Calculator.Click on the three bars to open its menu.Choose Temperature.Choose Fahrenheit for the first temperature and “Celsius” for the second.B) What is 50 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?Answer J:Using the “Search box”, open Task Manager. Make sure “More details” on the bottom left is selected. (See Figure 6-5 on page 189.)A) if an app hangs for any reason, what will be shown in the Status column? (See page 189.)B) If a program is Not Responding, this may not be permanent. What might be happening? (See page 169.) C) How long should you wait before terminating this task? (See page 189.)D) How do you terminate an process in Task Manager? (See page 189.) Answer #K: Open Microsoft Edge.In Task Manager, click on “Details” and find MicrosoftEdge.exe. (See page 190 and Figure 6-6 on page 191.)A) What percentage of CPU capacity is Microsoft Edge using?Right click on the column headings and choose “Select columns”.Check “Description”.B) What is the description for Microsoft Edge?Answer #L:In Task Manager, click on the “App history” tab. (See pages 192-3 and Figure 6-7 on page 192.)A) How much Network resources have been used by Microsoft Edge?B) If you do not clear or restart the history, how long a period does the history cover? (See page 192.)C) Click on the Network column heading to sort by CPU time. Which process has used the most CPU time? Answer #M:In Task Manager, click on the “Startup” tab. (See page 194 and Figure 6-8.)A) What are your Startup programs?B) What is the problem with having too many startup programs?C) Since you cannot remove a startup item form this list, what can you do so that it will not automatically run as startup?Answer #N:Download and run Autoruns. You can search for Autoruns in our browser to find the download site. (See pages 196-7 and the Figure on page 197.)A) What does Autoruns show? B) For what is Autoruns particularly useful? Answer #O: Select an item in Autoruns and notice its details appear at the bottom of the screen.Instructor’s Check #P: _____________ Go to Settings > Apps > Default Apps. (See pages 197-9 and Figure 6-9 on page 198.)What are the choices of apps for Photos? (See page 199.)Answer #Q:Scroll to the bottom of the Default Apps list in setting and choose “Set by defaults by app”. (See pages 199-200.)Click on Microsoft Edge and click on “Manage”. Is Microsoft Edge the default app for PDF files? Answer #R:Scroll to the bottom of the Default Apps list in setting and select “Choose defaults apps by file type”. (See pages 200-1.)A) What is the default app for a .jpg file? (See Figure 6-10 on page 201.)B) Click on this app, what are the choices for the choosing a default app? (See the figure on the bottom of page 200.)Answer #S:Is” Internet Information Services” enabled? (See pages 202-3 and Figure 6-12 on page 203.) Answer #T: A) What is AutoPlay? (See page 203.) B) Is AutoPlay on for all media and devices? (See Figure 6-14 on page 204.)Answer #U:Right click on the Windows key and chose “Shut down or sign out”.Select “Shut down”. ................
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