How to reformat a personal computer?

REFORMATING A PERSONAL COMPUTER

Steps to reformat a personal Computer

1. Start your PC and press key F2, F12 pr delete key (Depends on your PC model)

2. Your PC will boot from CD and Windows installation will start. Press Enter at this screen.

3. Accept License agreement by pressing F8 key

4. Delete the partitions

5. Create the partitions

6. Define the size of partitions

7. Now select your desired partition for installation of Windows XP and press enter

8. Choose to format the partition. Choose NTFS file system quick.

9. Setup will format the partition

10. After formatting, setup will start copying files on to the hard disk

11. After copying of files, setup will start installing Windows

12. Select desired language and regional settings when prompted by setup

13. Enter windows key

14 Type a name for your computer

15. Select time and date settings and time zone according to your country

16. Provide network settings for networking PC's or select typical settings and press enter

17. Setup will install devices and register components

18. After completion setup will do a cleanup of files and will restart your PC automatically. At this stage you can remove CD from drive

How to share file and printer in a computer network?

Sharing file on Network (server)

1. Replace the file inside the folder
2. Right click the folder
3. Click properties
4. Click sharing
5. Click share this folder on network
6. Click apply
7. and lastly click OK

Checking the file (client)

1. Click start button
2. Click run 
3. Then type \\ [IP address of the server]

Sharing printer on a Network (address)

1. Click control panel
2. Click add printer
3. Right click printer
4. Click sharing
5. Click share this printer
6. Click apply 
7. Click OK

Connecting printer on a Network (client)

1. Click run 
2. Then type \\ [IP Address of server]
3. Double click Printer and Faxes
4. Right click printer
5. Click connect

What is a network or IP address?

What is an IP Address?

Internet Protocol Address(IP address)

 ~ is a logical numeric address that is assigned to every single computer, printer, switch, router or any other device that is part of a TCP/IP based network.The IP address is the core component on which the networking architecture is built; no network exists without it. An IP address is a logical address that is used to uniquely identify every node in the network. Because IP addresses are logical, they can change. They are similar to addresses in a town or city because the IP address gives the network node an address so that it can communicate with other nodes or networks, just like mail is sent to friends and relatives.

Internet protocol Versions

IPv4 – Internet Protocol Version 4

IPv4 addresses are canonically represented in dotted - decimal notation, which consists of four decimal numbers, each ranging from 0 to 255, separated by dots, e.g., 172.16.254.1. Each part represents a group of 8 bits (octet) of the address.

       

IPv6 - Internet Protocol Version 6 

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is a set of specifications from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IE) that's essentially an upgrade of IP version 4 (IPv4). The basics of IPv6 are similar to those of IPv4 -- devices can use IPv6 as source and destination addresses to pass packets over a network, and tools like ping work for network testing as they do in IPv4, with some slight variations.

IP Address Classes

With an IPv4 IP address, there are five classes of available IP ranges: Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E, while only A, B, and C are commonly used. Each class allows for a range of valid IP addresses, shown in the following table.

Class A   -   1  to 126Class B   -  128 to 191Class C   -  192 to 223 Class D   -  224 to 239 Class E   -  240 to 255127 - loopback function of a networkClass D - is for multicastClass E - reserved for future or experimental purposes

Creating IP Address

           1.  Right click My Network Places 

          2.  Click Properties          

 3.  Right click Local Area Connection          

 4.  Click Properties         

  5.  Click TCP/IP           

6.Click Properties               

            O  Obtain an IP address automatically                           O  Use the following IP address:                                                       IP Address                                                       Subnet Mask           7.  Click OK

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Creating IP Configuration

1.  Click Start button 2.  Click Run 3.  Type cmd 4.  Type ipconfig 5.  Type ping [IP address]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address