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What Is It?

A software program that helps other software programs that are installed on your computer, communicate with various devices inside or attached to your computer.

In addition, it creates a user interface on the computer screen that allows users to see, access and use those software programs to create, add and delete information.

What Does It Do?

The operating system or OS as it is commonly called, manages four key aspects of a computers operations:

• Process Management
• Memory Allocation
• File Input/Output
• Device Input/Output

It acts on the one hand as a traffic cop, controlling the flow of data around your computer, starting and stopping processes.

Provides a means through which your applications (Word, Excel, etc.) can access the hardware and system software on your computer as well as provides user interface.

A.K.A.

• DOS
• Windows
• Mac OS
• Linux
• OS/2

Learn more about operating systems…

If you don’t any other piece of software for your computer, buy am anti-virus software.

Always use caution when sharing external media such as floppies or flash drives without first checking the files or disks with a virus protection program. This includes downloaded files from the Internet – know the source of the file before you download and activate the virus protection plug-in for your browser.

Two good virus protection programs are from McAfee (ViruScan) and Symantec (Norton AntiVirus), You can also get a FREE copy of anti-virus software form AVG.

See also virus news