Utility Software

Question	Answer
anti-virus	Anti-virus is designed to detect and destroy any viruses on your computer.
spyware protection	Spyware is when an add pops up on the users screen saying to protect their computer when it is just a rogue software.
firewall	Prevents unauthorised network or system to access the firewall.
disk formatting	The process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk for initial use. Some cases will make the formatting operation make a new file system.
file transfer	When transmitting files over a computer network such as the internet. There are numerous ways to transfer files over a network. Computers that provide a file transfer are called file servers.
de-fragmentation	File systems that have de-fragmentation is a process that reduces fragmentation. It does this by organising the contents based on mass storage devices used to store files.
system clean-up	Is a computer maintenance utility included with a computer software, designed to free up disk space on a computer's hard drive. It searches and analyses the hard drive for files that are no longer in use then removes unnecessary files.
system restore	Is a feature to let the user to revert their computers state back to a previous point in time which can be used to recover from system malfunctions or other problems.

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	Created by Justin Swatton U over 8 years ago