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Operating System File
Management
What is an Operating system?
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What is mean by File management?
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Operating system
Computer Hardware
Computer User and Software
• Example about Operating system;
▪ Operating system is like a captain in a cricket team.
▪ Computer is like the Cricket team.
▪ Software and Hardware are like the other players in the team.
▪ Just like a captain giving the instructions to other players, Operating system
manages the Software and Hardware according to the given instructions.
▪ Sometimes captains changed in a team likewise Operating systems like Windows,
Linux, Ubuntu also could be changed in a computer.
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Examples for Operating System
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User Interface
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Windows Operating system’s User Interface
What is a File?
• File is anything that a user saves on a computer.
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• These different types of files are shown with unique symbols like following;
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User Interface
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File Name File Extension
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▪ This file is created by a word processing software and it is named as ''School".
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School.docx
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▪ Following file is a Photo file named as New Year festival.
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Graphic software
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Let's Identify the Working Window
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Closed
Menu bar Maximized
Minimized
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Minimizing the Working Window
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Opened Window Closed Window Task bar
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Maximizing the Window
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Resizing the Window
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Let's learn about File Folder
Why do we use Folders?
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Files of the Sports meet Folder that all the Sports meet files are
kept
File of the sports meet agenda
File of the budget estimate of the sports meet Folder of sports meet -2018
File of the sports meet songs
Images of the sports meet
File of sports meet videos
Main parts of a working window
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• Title Bar :
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Create a File
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Saving a File
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Exercise
File name File extension File type Type of software Name of a software
that can open the
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Grade 6A Text file Ms word
Sports meet2018 .jpg Image processing
software
School anthem Music file
New year VLC media player
festival video
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