Week Five: Essential Peripherals and Windows

Like every other week, this week videos topics and discussions regarding, reinstall/clean install, power menu mobility, and how to speed up the performance of your Windows operating system, was very interesting and helpful. I’m hoping that if not all, but most of my classmate were able to accumulate as much information by watching all three video presentations.

This week topics (chapters) focus on, Essential Peripherals, Building a PC, and Windows Under the Hood. Each topic was unique and informatively, and most importantly, I was able to learn far more detail aspects than I knew. Seen is one thing and reading and understanding full details about what you have seen is completely different thing.

In chapter 10, Essential Peripherals for example, provided the distinguish details between the “USB Standards and Compatibility.” I was able to learn the very details speed of each Universal Serial Bus (USB1.1, 2.0,3.0, and 3.1).

This is the break-down according to the book:

*      USB 1.1 was the first widely adopted standard and defined two speeds: Low- Speed USB, running at a maximum of 1.5 Mbps

*      USB 2.0 standard introduced Hi-Speed USB running at 480 Mbps

*      USB 3.0 is capable of speed of up to 5 Gbps-ten times faster than USB 2.0

*      USB 3.1 can handle speed up to 10 Gbps. It’s marked as SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps or USB 3.1 Gen2

I find these details helpful and informatively in that, we tend to sometime ignore reading retails about things we know. I will not have known the precis “SuperSpeed” for the USB3.1, even though I know it is fast.

Like chapter 10, I was able to learn valuable details as well in chapter 12: Windows Under the Hood.

For example, the Registry Components:

*      HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

*      HKEY_CURRENT_USER

*      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

*      HKEY_USERS

*      HKEY_CUEERNT_CONFIG

After this week, I realized that there are some much to be learn, especially to being a successful Tech. I also realized that things we sometime overlook end up becoming the most important, despite how little it may be. This is what education (learning) is all about, you come to find-out that you know little than you thought. There are new technologies becoming available and never stop reaching and learning.

 

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