Exam 5: System Software: Operating Systems and Utility Programs

With Windows Explorer,click a drive or ____________________ icon in the left pane to display its contents in the right pane.

____ is the current version of Windows Phone.

Linux is increasingly being used with both mainframes and supercomputers.

-____________________ programs,such as the one shown in the accompanying figure,can be used with both image and text files,though image files generally compress more efficiently.

During the 1980s and early 1990s,____ was the dominant operating system for microcomputers.

Case 5-2 Dean has been using computers for some time now,but he is unfamiliar with a number of utility programs.In order to better maintain his computer,he decides to ask his coworker Andrea for advice on basic utility programs. -Andrea tells Dean that he should periodically perform ____ on his computer to optimize the hard drive so that it works more efficiently.This process works by rearranging the data on the hard drive so all files are stored in contiguous locations.

____ includes all the programs that allow a user to perform specific tasks on a computer,such as writing a letter.

____ is a family of operating systems based on Windows that is designed primarily for consumer and industrial devices that are not personal computers.

All programs and data located in RAM are divided into fixed-length ____ or variable-length segments,depending on the operating system being used.

Windows 98 was built from the ground up using a different kernel than the other versions of Windows.

Compare graphical user interfaces (GUIs)with command line interfaces.

In DOS,the command ____ displays the files and folders in the current location.

File extensions should not be changed by the user because the operating system uses them to identify the program that should be used to open the file.

Filenames typically include a ____ at the end of the filename.

Explain multithreading.

The older DOS operating system and some versions of the UNIX and Linux operating systems use a(n)graphical user interface.

____________________ is based on the UNIX operating system and originally set the standard for graphical user interfaces.

Disk management programs diagnose and repair problems related to your hard drive.

What is the purpose of uninstall utilities?

The file management program incorporated into Windows is ____.