System Software

Application - A piece of software designed for the end user.

Web browser - A software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web

Word processing - Production, storage, and manipulation of text on a computer

Presentation - display information in the form of a slide show.

Spreadsheet - an electronic document in which data is arranged in the rows and columns of a grid and can be manipulated and used in calculations.

Utility Software - Software designed to help maintain the computer system

Defragmentation - Reorganising data on a hard drive to put broken up files back together and collect up free space.

File management software - Utilities that allow the user to perform common operations on files such as copying, deleting and moving.

Compression - The process of making a file smaller

Encryption - Converting text or files into an unreadable format.

Operating system (OS) - A piece of software responsible for running the computer, managing hardware applications, users and resources.

Platform (OS) - A computer system that other applications can run on

GPU (Graphical processing unit) - A circuit for handling the processing of graphics and images

Multi-tasking - A function of the operating system, where the processor is made to appear to perform several tasks at the same time by switching rapidly between the tasks.

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