MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

25-2 Chapter 25 Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop Environment
❑ Practice 3: Using the Display program from the Appearance And Themes
group in Control Panel, select a different Theme for the desktop on the
Theme tab.
❑ Practice 4: Select the Appearance tab in the Display Program located in the
Appearance And Themes group in Control Panel and switch to Windows
Classic from the drop-down list below Windows and buttons. Select different
options from the drop-down list below Color Scheme. Click the Effects button
and see how different choices affect the behavior of the user interface elements.
Click the Advanced button and experiment with specifying custom
colors for specific user interface elements.
❑ Practice 5: Create a blank Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and add the
Group Policy snap-in and view the Local Computer Policy. Examine the configuration
choices available under the Administrative Templates folder of the
User Configuration node. Experiment with some of the settings available
under these folders: Start Menu And Taskbar, Desktop, and Control
Panel\Display.
❑ Practice 6: Launch Control Panel, click Performance And Maintenance, and
then click System. Click the Advanced tab, and then click the Settings button
in the User Profiles section of the dialog box. The User Profiles dialog box
appears; use it to copy and delete a user profile.
❑ Practice 7: Create a new local user account and log on to the computer using
that account. Type set at a command prompt to see a list of the configured
environment variables. Make note of the value for the USERPROFILE variable.
Log off the computer and log back on with an account that has local administrator
privileges. Open the User Profiles dialog box, as discussed in Practice
1, and delete the user profile for this new local user. Log off the computer and
back on with the new local user. Type set at the command prompt to see
how the USERPROFILE variable has changed. Repeat these steps at least two
more times with this user account.
❑ Practice 8: Launch Control Panel, click Performance And Maintenance, select
System, click the Advanced tab, and then click the Environment Variables
button to open the Environment Variables dialog box. Note which variables
appear under the User Variables section and which appear under the Systems
Variables section. Determine what happens when you create a new
variable under each section and log on using different user accounts. Identify
which environment variables are present regardless of which user
account is logged on.
❑ Practice 9: Configure a roaming user profile on a workgroup computer, and
then configure a fully functional roaming user profile using an Active Directory
domain controller. Copy a local user profile to a network location and