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Lesson8SoftwareTools:WinBench,WinZip,Ghost长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室2TestingprogramforPC'sperformance:WinBenchWinBenchisasubsystem-levelbenchmarkthatmeasurestheperformanceofaPC'sgraphics,disk,processor,video,andCD-ROMsubsystemsinaWindows-basedenvironment.WinBench'stestsareall32-bit,andsocanonlyrunonWindows9Windows98andWindowsNTsystems.WinBenchreturnsthefollowingmainresultsthatprovideanoverviewofaPC'sgraphics,disk,processor,andCD-ROMsubsystemsperformance:.BusinessGraphicsWinMarkandBusinessDiskWinMark.High-EndGraphicsWinMarkandHigh-EndDiskWinMark.CPUmarkl6.CPUmark32.CD-ROMWinMark长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室3WinBenchTherequirementsforrunningtheHigh-EndtestsaredifferentthanthosefortheBusinesstests.Formoreinformation,lookupthereadingmaterialsforWinBench:Minimumrequirements&WinBench99'senhancement.TheBusinesstestsmeasureyourPC'sdiskandgraphicssubsystemperformanceastheyperformworkonpopular,everydaybusinessapplicationssuchasParadoxorPowerPoint.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室4WinBenchTheHigh-EndtestsmeasureyourPC'sdisk,graphics,andprocessorperformanceastheyapplytodemandingworkstylesandspecializedapplications,suchasimageediting,3Dvisualization,andapplicationdevelopment.WinBenchstoressomeofitsessentialinformationintheWindowsregistry,aswellasin.INIfiles.Needlesstosay,usingREGEDITonanyofthisinformationcoulddamageWinBench'sabilitytosafelyrunitstests.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室5Compressionsoftware:WinZipHaveyoueverusedtheInternet?Ifso,you'veprobablyencounteredZIPfiles.AreyouaWindowsuser?Ifso,WinZipisthewaytohandlethesearchivedfiles.WhatisaZIPfile,anyhow?ZIPfilesarearchivesusedfordistributingandstoringfiles.ZIPfilescontainoneormorefiles.UsuallythefilesarchivedinaZIParecompressedtosavespace.ZIPfilesmakeiteasytogroupfilesandmaketransportingandcopyingthesefilesfaster.ZIPfilessavetimeandspace,andmakedownloadingsoftwareandtransferringemailattachmentsfaster.WinZipbringstheconvenienceofwindowstotheuseofZipfilesandothercompressionformats.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室6WinZipWinZipisextremelyeasytouse!ToopenanarchivesimplyclickonanarchivelistedintheFileManagerorExplorer,draganddropanarchiveontoWinZip,orusethestandardOpendialogbox.YoucanalsousethestandardNewdialogboxtocreateanarchive,thenaddsomefilestoit,andthesefileswillbecompressedandstoredinthearchive.ThemainWinZipwindowfeaturesalistboxwiththenames,sizes,anddate/timestampsofallfilesintheopenarchive(Figure8.1).Thislistcanbescrolledandsortedonanyfield.Atoolbarprovidesfastaccesstocommonlyusedactions.Extensivecontextsensitivehelpisalwaysavailable.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室7WinZipDoubleclickingonafileinthemainWinZipwindowhasthesameeffectasdoubleclickingintheFileManagerorExplorer.Firstthefileisextractedfromthearchive.Then,ifthefileisexecutable,itisrun.Otherwise,thefileisopenedbytheappropriateapplication(forexample,WindowsWriteorWordPadfor*.WRIfiles)basedonstandardWindowsassociations.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室8WinZipUsetheMake.EXEFileentryintheActionsmenutoconverttheopenarchivetoaself-extractingarchive.Self-extractingarchiveshaveanextensionof.EXE,andcanberunascommands.Whenaself-extractingarchiveisrun,thefilesinthearchiveareautomaticallyextracted.Thisisconvenient,becausetheenduserdoesnotneedanunzipprogram(likeWinZip)toextractfilesfromtheseself-extractingarchives.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室9Filecopyingprogram:GhostGhostisdesignedtominimizetileinstallationtimesforoperatingsystemssuchasWin95,WinNTandOS/2.Thisisparticularlyusefultoorganizationswhichhavealargenumberofsimilarlyconfiguredworkstationstoinstall.Forexample,Ghostreducesthetimetoinstallatypical300MBWin95systemfromanhourwithsubstantialoperandinputtoabout5minuteswithnooperandinputrequired.Withmultiaccesspackages,multipleworkstationsmaybeinstalledatthesametimewhichfurtherimprovesefficiency.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室10GhostGhostisdesignedtoberununderDOSandcanberunfromaDOSbootdiskette.AlthoughDOS-based,itcanhandleWin95/WinNTlongfilenames,NTFSpartitions,OS/2extendedattributesandevenOS/2bootmanagerpartitions.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室11GhostGhosthastwomodesofoperation-asimple,menu-drivenuserinterface,and,tofurtheraidautomatingtheinstallationprocess,abatchmode.PriortoWin95therewaslittleneedforautilitylikeGhost,assystemscouldbeinstalledbysimplyusingtheDOSXCOPYcommand.Win95introducedlongfilenames,XCOPYcouldnolongerdothejob-hencetheneedforautilitylikeGhost.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室12GhostNotonlyisGhostthefastestwaytoinstallWin95,WinNTandOS/2,ithasanotherhandyuse-itcanmakecompletebackupsofdisks.MakingGhostaperfectchoicefordisasterrecoveryoperations.Ghostisessentiallyadiskand/orpartitioncopyingprogram.Theentirecontentsofadiskmaybecopiedfromonedisktoanother,ortheymaybecopiedtoadiskimagefile,andthatimagefilecanthenbeusedasatemplatetocreatecopiesoftheoriginaldisk.Ghostalsoallowstheseoperationstobeperformedonthepartitionsofthedisk,i.e.,thecontentsofapartitioncanbecopiedtoanotherpartition,orselectedpartitionscanbecopiedtoanimagefileandthatimagefilecanbeusedasatemplatetocreatecopiesoftheoriginalpartitions.长沙通信职业技术学院英语教研室13Words&Expressions(1)archiven.档案文件benchmarkn.基准，一种专用的测试标准clickv.按(钮)，按下n.按(钮)，按下compressv.压缩n.压缩DialogBox对话框downloadv.下载draganddrop拖拉E-mailattachmentn.E-mail附件endu