Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1.7 System
Software
- Operating system: An operating
system is the main piece of
software on your PC. It controls
all of the hardware and all of your
actions.
- GUI
- Graphical user interface: This type of interface
involves clicking through icon, tiles and buttons
wit a mouse to navigate through the PC
- CLI
- Command line interface: This type of interface
involves lines of code that the person input to use
the PC
- Peripherial managment
- Drivers
- Peripherals are devices which connect to your PC so
you can control the PC, listen to music, ect
- Multitasking
- Time slicing
- Managment
- Usermanagment
- Memory managment
- File managment
- Utility software: Software built
within the computer system to
help maintain it
- Data compression
- Lossy
- Lossless
- Encryption software
- Encrypting data to protect
it from unwanted eyes
- Defragmenting
- Sorting out muddled
up pieces of data
- Speeding up the hard
drive
- Backups: keeping
copies of data in case
its deleted or get lost.
- Full
- All of the files
are backed up
- Takes a short time
to do a full restore
- Takes a long time to
do the full backup
- Incremental
- One backup is performed but
any backups after the fact
only backup the changed files
- Takes a short time to perform each backup
- Each backup take up less space than a full backup
- It takes a long time for the
OS to work through each
file restoring each part