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Managing applications

Managing applications

- This episode explores the life cycle of an application. When a mommy application and a daddy application really care for each other-- - [Woman] No, no oh, whoa Scott! - A typical application has three stages. You install it, you maintain it by patching and keeping it up to date, and when you're done with it, uninstall it. Installation follows a clear pattern. You insert an optical disc and the installation routine starts automatically, or more commonly today, you download a program from the internet, open your downloads folder in File Explorer, I'm assuming Windows here, and double click the downloaded file to start the installation routine. You more likely than not will immediately have a UAC notification popup asking for admin account information or a simple are you sure kind of text. User account control is a security feature in Windows to stop malicious software from installing without permission, it's a good…

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