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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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find out more about the Component Services and ODBC Data Source

Administrator applets, both found in Administrative Tools.

Component Services

To understand all that Component Services can do would require a huge

amount of information—far greater than the scope of CompTIA’s A+ exams.

Simply put, as long as Windows has existed, Microsoft has come up with

many tools (with names like COM, DCOM, and COM+) to enable

programmers to share data objects (an element of programs) between

applications on a single computer. Over time, this sharing was extended so

that you could share objects between computers on a network.

In almost all cases, this object sharing doesn’t require you to do anything

more than install an application that uses these features. Component Services

is there for those very rare times when something’s either wrong or a

programmer needs you to make manual changes (see Figure 12-35). If you

have a company that buys custom applications or creates them in-house,

there’s a better than good chance that you’ll be firing up Component Services

and working with programmers, manually installing programs, and tweaking

those programs to get them to work the way you wish. Professional, thirdparty

applications (the kind you buy in stores) should automatically configure

any of these programs during the installation process, making it extremely

rare that you’ll need to go into Component Services.

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