Technology Education THE PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) SOFTWARE PART 1.

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Technology Education THE PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) SOFTWARE PART 1

Purpose Of Lesson To teach the very basic and absolutely necessary PC software. To teach what the basic routine PC maintenance software are and how to use them to do maintenance.

DOS MICROSOFT DISK OPERATING SYSTEM BASIC BURNED IN SOFTWARE ON THE COMPUTERS ROM MEMORY

COMMAND PROMPT COMMAND PROMPT IS DOS IT MEANS THE SCREEN WHERE YOU TYPE IN COMMANDS INTO DOS

(OS) OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) IS SOFTWARE THAT MANAGES THE COMPUTERS HARDWARE AND EXECUTION OF APPLICATIONS

APPS APPLICATION SOFTWARE (APPS) SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO HELP THE USER COMPLETE A SINGULAR OR MULTIPLE RELATED TASKS. CAN YOU THINK OF SOME EXAMPLES?

INTERNET BROWSER INTERNET EXPLORER FIREFOX GOOGLE CHROME

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE COOKIES CLEANUP DEFRAGMENT BACKUP!!!!

COOKIES COOKIES ARE SMALL APPLETS – SOFTWARE SENT TO YOUR COMPUTER TO TEMPORARILY PERFORM SOME TASK ON A WEB PAGE.

COOKIES SOME CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH YOUR COMPUTER SOME TRACK WHERE YOU GO ON THE INTERNET

COOKIES SAY YES!!!

DISK CLEANUP SCANS YOUR COMPUTER FOR OLD FILES THAT ARE NOT USED ANYMORE AND LETS YOU DELETE THEM OR COMPRESS THEM

DISK DEFRAGMENTER SCANS HARD DRIVES AND FINDS FILES THAT ARE NOT IN ORDER (FRAGMENTED) LETS YOU DEFRAGMENT THEM SO THE COMPUTER CAN READ THE HARD DRIVE FASTER!!!

DISK DEFRAGMENTER

NORMAL BEFORE AND AFTER

NEEDS DEFRAGMENTING BAD – ALMOST TO FULL HD

TOO FULL HD!!!!

BACKUPS You should at least set up a regular system backup so you can restore a computer to a previous state. You will of course loose some data, but usually just a week at the most if you restore your system.

SERVERS Holds large amounts of data Can service large number of computers Can be used to backup data

SOFTWARE Big servers will use purchased software However there is free software like FreeNAS

HOME SERVERS Little servers for homes or small businesses Can be built or purchased Can used purchased software or freeware like FreeNAS

WE HAVE DISCUSSED 1.DOS – MICROSOFT DISK OPERATING SYSTEM 2.COMMAND PROMPT 3.OS – OPERATING SYSTEMS 4.APPS – APPLICATIONS 5.INTERNET BROWSERS 6.MAINTENANCE – CLEANUP, DEFRAGMENTER, COOKIES, AND BACKUPS

END OF SOFTWARE LESSON 1