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MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual
LAB 5
INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING DESKTOP APPLICATIONS
THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:
Exercise 5.1
Exercise 5.2
Setting File Associations
Setting Compatibility Modes
Lab Challenge
Modifying File Associations
Exercise 5.1
Setting File Associations
Overview
In this exercise, you will demonstrate how you can use file associations to control which application loads when you execute a file of a particular type.
Mindset
Windows 8 uses file types to associate data files with specific applications. File can also appear as file name extensions.
Completion time
20 minutes
MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual
Question
1
What program is currently associated with the .jpg file name extension? MS Photo 13. Take a screen shot of the Windows Photo Viewer
window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr
and
then paste it into your Lab 5 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V
.
Question
2
What would happen if you double-clicked a different JPEG file
with a .jpg extension in File Explorer?
It would open up with Windows Photo Viewer Question
3
What would happen if you double-clicked a JPEG file with a .jpeg extension? Then It would try to open up with MS Photo
MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual
Exercise 5.2
Setting Compatibility Modes
Overview
In this exercise, you modify the compatibility mode for a specific executable file so that Windows 8 can effectively run a program designed for an earlier version of Windows. Mindset
Compatibility modes enable you to specify what Windows version a particular program was designed to use.
Completion time
20 minutes
Question
4
What can you do if you are unsure which version of Windows you should specify in the compatibility settings?
Run compatibility troubleshooter
11.
Take a screen shot of the Solitaire
window by pressing Alt+Prt Scr
and then
paste it into your Lab 5 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V
.
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MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual
Lab Challenge
Modifying File Associations
Overview
Windows 8 often provides more than one way to complete a given task. In this challenge, you must discover an alternate way to complete a task you performed earlier in this lab.
Mindset
Windows 8 uses its modern interface to provide alternative ways of performing tasks usually found in the Control Panel.
Completion time
20 minutes
To complete this challenge, you must once again change the default file association for JPEG files with a .jpg extension. However, this time, you cannot use the Default Programs control panel. Change the default file association to the Paint program and, in doing so, complete the following tasks:
1.
List the steps you took to complete the task.
Right click on the file. click properties
The on the Open With click change Then click paint 2.
Take a screen shot of the interface you used to change the default file association by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 5 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
MOAC 70-687 - Configuring Windows 8 Lab Manual