David Tcruz, Deanna Guzman, Darrell Pierce, Charles Wright, Alberto Rodriguez
NT1110 – Nov 2nd, 2015
U8_A1 Video Summary 6 – Windows Operating System features

The features of the Windows operating system will start with the Control Panel. This is where any changes to the system and configurations are allowed. There’s also the Security Center, where you can monitor the status of the security features including firewall setting and internet security settings. The performance maintenance can also be found under the Control Panel Administrative Tools. Under this tab, you can view Services, Local Security Policy, and Event Viewer. With the Local Security Policy, the user is allowed to change the password policy, account lockout policy, and audit policy. Under the Password Policy, the user will be able to change the password settings such as length, upper or lower case letters, and password history. The account lockout policy is where the minutes of lockout, the number of failed logon attempts, and lockout account counter. Also under the Local Security Policy, the user can look at the Directory service access, privilege use, policy change, and system events. Also under the Local Security Policy, The Security setting marks every event as success, failure, and no auditing. This will generate an event when it succeeds, fails, or no event is generated. This is also the area where the user can determine who can access the computer, which gives more control to the user. The event viewer logs the events that have occurred on the system. The sources of each log come from either the system, application, and security. Each log is based on the policy settings set by the user, such as the password policy, and account lockout policy. The application log are events logged by programs. The Security log are any successful or unsuccessful logon attempts, and the system log are