Installing and Upgrading Software

Ambreen Kauser ID: 354842 Unit: 23

Plan for Installing and upgrading software

Equipments required:

Monitor
Desktop
CD Drive
CD
Keyboard
Mouse
Main power
Check timing of activities with user
Double check cabling, system specification and
software requirements, password(s) required

Before installing the software, I will make sure first if i have go the enough memory.

Plan:

I am going to check if it has the old version of Microsoft word because it may cause problems while installing the new version, and if it does hold the old version then I will need to uninstall it before installing the new version.

Then, I will insert the Microsoft disk into the CD Drive and wait till it loads up but sometimes it may not load up automatically so I will need to run the CD manually. So then I will go to my computer then into CD drive to activate the setup program.

The applications that I am going to install are

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Create a folder called MP in the client’s main drive, to do that I will follow the following

Go to “My Computer”
Click on the main drive “Local Disk”
Create a folder called “ MP”

Then I will create subfolders in her main drive called

Letters
Charts
Slide shows

I will save the files in the subfolders of each application, the client save word documents in the folder “Letters”, create charts in Excel and Slide shows in ...

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The applications that I am going to install are

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Create a folder called MP in the client’s main drive, to do that I will follow the following

Go to “My Computer”
Click on the main drive “Local Disk”
Create a folder called “ MP”

Then I will create subfolders in her main drive called

Letters
Charts
Slide shows

I will save the files in the subfolders of each application, the client save word documents in the folder “Letters”, create charts in Excel and Slide shows in Power Point Presentations.

The tool ribbon needs to be minimised and to do that I will right click on the toolbar, then click on “Minimize the Ribbon”.

The clients has requested to customize some commands on the toolbar menu, which are

Bold
Left Align
Centre Align
Borders
Font colour
Fill colour
Spell check and grammar
Date picker

To customize all these all these command, I will go to the File and Word Options, then a dialog box will appear with lots of settings and options, I will click on the option “Customize” this will allow me to add the commands. In that option, I will click on “All command” and then I will select the required commands from the list and click on Add button and then click Ok. The client will be able to see all the commands in the toolbar.

I will create shortcuts of each application on the Desktop.

The client has requested to adjust the setup of Macros and VBA Scripts; I will go to Microsoft Word, File and then Word options. Then I will select the option called “ Trust Centre” then I will click on “Trust centre settings” under the “Microsoft Office word Trust Centre” and then click on Ok to apply the settings.

Updating existing software

Updating AVG:

I have been asked to up to date software by Zak Dliy, his machine already has PC Cleanup and AVG Virus control, but they are not up to date.

To update the AVG, I will first load the program and click on Update, click the Tool button on the toolbar and select “Update from Directory” and then I will select the AVG folder from the directory then I’ll click on Ok. Once I’ll do this then I will click on Update now and this will update the latest version of AVG.

Update CCleaner:

To update that, I will click on Checks for update.

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