enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Utility software - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_software

    Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software. It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application systems.

  3. Operating system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

    The operating system provides an interface between an application program and the computer hardware, so that an application program can interact with the hardware only by obeying rules and procedures programmed into the operating system. The operating system is also a set of services which simplify development and execution of application programs.

  4. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems

    This is a list of operating systems. ... Derived from AT&T System V Release 3.2 with an infusion of Xenix device drivers and utilities plus most of the SVR4 features

  5. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows...

    Centralizes and reports on the status of anti-virus, Automatic Updates, Windows Firewall, and other security-related components of the operating system Windows XP SP2 Administrative Tools: Microsoft Management Console: Provides system administrators and advanced users with a flexible interface through which they may configure and monitor the system

  6. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)

    In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs. In general, operating system shells use either a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI), depending on a computer's role and particular operation. It is named a shell because it is the outermost layer ...

  7. Category:Utilities for Windows - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Utilities_for_Windows

    Windows archivers and compression-related utilities (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Utilities for Windows" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total.

  8. Network utility - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_utilities

    Network utilities are software utilities designed to analyze and configure various aspects of computer networks. The majority of them originated on Unix systems, but several later ports to other operating systems exist. The most common tools (found on most operating systems) include:

  9. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface

    Since 2001, the Macintosh operating system macOS has been based on a Unix-like operating system called Darwin. [7] On these computers, users can access a Unix-like command-line interface by running the terminal emulator program called Terminal , which is found in the Utilities sub-folder of the Applications folder, or by remotely logging into ...