CIS 130 Exercises

Homework: Windows File Management

Complete the exercises below using a computer with a floppy disk and Windows XP Professional & Microsoft Office installed. You may use your book and notes to help you.

  1. Format the floppy disk provided, use ??win as the Volume label, where ?? is replaced with your initials..

  2. Create a folder "WindowsFM" on your floppy disk.
     
  3. Create a folder "FontFun" on your floppy disk.

  4. Use your detective skills to locate the directory on the hard disk where the fonts are stored:
     
  5. Copy all font files whose name includes "Bodoni"  to the folder WindowsFM on your floppy disk.

  6. Work with the files in the WindowsFM folder.

  7. Make a duplicate of the font "BOD_B.TTF"  Call the new file "THISIS.FUN".

  8. Make a duplicate of the file "THISIS.FUN". Call the new file "HAVING.FUN".

  9. Change the name of the file "THISIS.FUN" to "NOMORE.FUN".

  10. Make the file "BOD_I.TTF" hidden.
     
  11. Move all of the remaining font files (.TTF) to the FontFun folder.
     
  12. Make the WindowsFM folder Read-Only.
     
  13. Perform a diskette status check. Print the results of this check.
     

This homework will be graded based on your printed evidence showing the results of each step. (This will probably include listings of the folders, screen shots, etc.) On your printouts clearly label which steps are shown.