Widows OS General

Question 1

What are the graphical set of buttons called on the Windows 8 start screen that launches apps?

Answer 1

Tiles

Question 2

In WIndows 7, how do you navigate to System Tools?

Answer 2

Start-> All Programs-> System Tools

Question 3

How do you access “Administrative Tools” in Windows 8/8.1?

Answer 3

1. Start typing “Administrative tools” in the search bar.
2. Right click the Start Button-> Control panel-> Administrative tools
3. Start screen-> click down arrow to open list of apps-> Scroll to the right and click administrative tools.

Question 4

How do you make the Charms Bar appear in Windows 8?

Answer 4

Place the cursor in the top- or bottom- right corner of the screen.

Question 5

Where do 32-bit applications install to on a 64-bit Windows operating system?

Answer 5

C:\Program Files (x86)

Question 6

How do you access “utilities folder” in Mac OSX?

Answer 6

Click on the “Go” button on the menu bar at the top of the screen and select “Utilities Folder”

Question 7

How do you access “System Tools” in Windows Vista/7?

Answer 7

Start-> All Programs-> Accessories-> System Tools

Question 8

What is Ready Boost?

Answer 8

A program that enables you to use flash media devices such as flash drives and dedicated virtual memory to be used as write cache between a hard drive and random access memory in an effort to increase computing performance.

Question 9

What is the desktop called in the Ubuntu distro of Linux?

Answer 9

Unity

Question 10

How do you access “System Preferences” in Mac OSx?

Answer 10

Click on the apple in the top left corner of the screen and select “system preferences”

Question 11

What CPU feature enables the Microprocessor to support running multiple operating systems at the same time?

Answer 11

Virtualization Support

Question 12

What feature enables a single core CPU to function like two CPU’s?

Answer 12

Hyper-Threading

Question 13

What does “Distro” stand for in Linux? What are Distros, and what is the most popular one?

Answer 13

Stands for Linux Distributions

Distros take all the code from open source projects and compiles them to create a single OS you can run.

Ubuntu.

Question 14

Give some examples of some input and output devices

Answer 14

Output- Monitor (visual output), speakers

Input- Keyboard, Remote Control, Microphone, Webam, Touchpad

Input and output- Touchscreen display

Question 15

If Mike downloaded a song on a Windows OS, where would it be saved at?

Answer 15

C:\Users\Mike\Music

Question 16

What is the MAC OSX equivalent of Windows Taskbar?

Answer 16

The Dock

Question 17

What is the CMD equivalent in MAC OS x called? How do you acces it?

Answer 17

Terminal.

Click “Go” button at the top of the screen-> Utilities Folder-> Terminal

Question 18

What MAC OS x feature is essentially multiple desktops?

Answer 18

Spaces

Question 19

In Windows Vista, what is the default enabled interactive side screen called? What are the icons located inside it called?

Answer 19

The Sidebar

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