System Software Flashcards
System software
The purpose of an operating system is to provide a platform on which users can run programs to accomplish task, to maintain the computer system
Multitasking
Multitasking is running multiple applications at the same time by giving each a small-time slice of a process the time
User management
User management is Dividing for different users to log to a computer
The operating system will retain individual settings for each user different users
May have different access rights to files and peripherals
Fire management
Computers store data in files
in many operating systems, each file has an extensionThat tells the operating system which program to load the file into when it is opened
The operating system presents the folder structure to the user, allowing files to be moved, edited, renamed and deleted
As far as I said and deleted, over time the hardest will become fragmented which will slow down the computer