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- 1What is Utility Software?Utility Software is system software designed to help analyse, configure, optimise or maintain a computer.
- 2What is Antivirus?Antivirus is computer software used to prevent, detect and remove malicious software. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name.
- 3What is Spyware Protection?Programs that secretly record what you do on your computer are called spyware. They can be used for some perfectly legitimate purposes, but the majority of spyware is malicious. Its aim is usually to capture passwords, banking credentials and credit card details - and send them over the internet to fraudsters.
- 4What is Firewall?A firewall is software or hardware that checks information coming from the Internet or a network, and then either blocks it or allows it to pass through to your computer, depending on your firewall settings.
- 5What is Disk Formatting?Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.
- 6What is File Transfer?File transfer is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network like the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers.
- 7What is De fragmentation?De fragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments).
- 8What is disk clean-up?Disk Clean-up is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space on a computer's hard drive. The utility first searches and analyses the hard drive for files that are no longer of any use, and then removes the unnecessary files.
- 9Why is it important to update your operating system?Regularly updating your computer system software will keep you safer from viruses. One of the most important things you can do to protect your computer and the data on it is to keep your system software up to date.
- 10What is system restore and why is it useful?It backs up your computer to make sure that files are saved even if your computer crashes.
- 11What is system information?The operating system keeps a record of all the hardware and details of the operating system such as make, clock speed, number of processors, version numbers and so on.
- 12What is Diagnosis?These utilities will test the system to see if there are any problems. For example an utility called 'chkdisk' on a windows system will run a number of tests on the hard disk to see if it working properly.
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