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OPERATING SYSTEM
OPERATING SYSTEM: An RENAME OF A FOLDER:
operating system (OS) acts as a bridge
Click on Start My Documentsclick
between user and computer hardware.
on the File or Folder to rename
OS is a resource allocator and manages
all resources. (Windows 7 Onwards) Right click on
File/Folder Choose Rename option
Task- Task- Task- Task- DELETION OF A FOLDER:
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Start My DocumentsFile or
Computer Assembler Text Editor Database Folder to delete
Under File Delete option
System and Application Program
(Windows 7 onwards) Right click on
Operating System File/Folder Delete
Hardware
TO MOVE A FILE: (Keeping a copy
Windows is graphical operating of the file in the Source)
system developed by Microsoft.
Select the file from the Source
Examples of Windows OS- windows
folder. Then right click on the
7, windows 8, windows XP and
mouse and select Copy (Ctrl+C) and
windows 10 etc.
go to the destination folder (where to
Icon is a small graphical keep).
representation of program or file.
Then right click on the mouse,
An icon (file/folder/application select Paste (Ctrl+V) option.
program) can be opened by double-
clicking or right click on icon and TO MOVE FILE: (Not keeping a copy
select open option. of the file)
CREATION OF FOLDER: Select the file from the Source
folder. Then right click on the
Click on Start My mouse and select Cut (Ctrl+X) and
DocumentsFileNew go to the destination folder (where to
Then select Folder keep).
(Windows 7 Onwards) Right click on Then right click on the mouse,
desktop, one pop-up menu appears. select Paste (Ctrl+V) option.
Select New Folder option.
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TO RENAME FILE:Click on the CHECK YOURSELF
FileRight clickChoose Rename
option
1. If the displayed system time and
TO OPEN AN APPLICATION date are wrong, you can reset it
PROGRAM (MS-PAINT, MS- using
WORD, MS-EXCEL): A. Write
Click on StartSelect Programs B. Calendar
Choose Accessories C. Write file
Then Select Particular Program
(Windows 7 onwards) Write program D. Control panel
name in Search button and press
2. Which is not application software?
Enter
A. Windows NT
TO LOCATE FILES/FOLDERS: B. Page Maker
C. WinWord XP
Click on Start button Select Search D. Photoshop
option
3. Microsoft Windows provides a
CONTROL PANEL: is a component Graphics Application known as:
of Windows OS that provides the ability A. Paint
to view and change system settings. B. Photoshop
Adding or removing hardware and C. JASC Paint Shop
software, controlling user accounts, D. None of these
changing accessibility and accessing
Itnetwork settings can be done through 4. In Windows OS these are small
control panel. pictures that represents file, folders,
Programs and other items. Each one
MY COMPUTER displays the contents is used to make the computer to do
of hard disk, floppy disk, CD-ROM, Pen something:
drive and network drives. A. Icon
B. Task Bar
Click on Start Select My Computer
C. Side Bar
It can be done by clicking on File D. None of these
Explorer seen on the Task bar. 5. Name the first program which runs
You can add update from Windows on a computer when the computer
OS through control panel. boots up?
Start Select Control panel Select A. Ms-Office C. OS
B. Adobe D. C++
Add or Remove Programs
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ANSWERS
STRETCH YOURSELF
Check Yourself
1. Rajiv is a newly appointed employee.
He was assigned to work on Bikas’s 1. D
PC. He wants to change the existing
password and give a new password 2. A
of his choice. What are the steps to
3. A
be followed by Rajiv to change the
password? 4. A
2. Locate any two of the device drivers
installed on your PC. 5. B
3. When a computer turned ON, who Stretch Yourself
brings the OS into RAM.
4. Can a computer work without 4. No
system software?
5. Write steps to remove a program.
