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checking your video card that Chapter 17, “Display Technologies,” discusses.

Microsoft Management Console

The Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is a shell program in Windows

that holds individual utilities called snap-ins, designed for administration and

troubleshooting. The apps in Administrative Tools are preconfigured MMCs,

for example. You can also create customized MMCs for your task needs.

To start an MMC, select Start | Search bar in Windows 7 or start typing

from the Start screen in Windows 8 or later. Type mmc and press ENTER to

get a blank MMC. Blank MMCs aren’t much to look at (see Figure 14-24).

Figure 14-24 Blank MMC

You make a blank MMC console useful by adding snap-ins, which include

most of the utilities you use in Windows. Even Device Manager is a snap-in.

You can add as many snap-ins as you like, and you have many to choose

from.

To add the Device Manager snap-in in the blank MMC, for example,

select File | Add/Remove Snap-ins. In the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog

box, you will see a list of available snap-ins (see Figure 14-25). Select Device

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