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1.3 – Software

There are two main different kinds of software, system software and application software.

System Software – Allows users to manage, configure or operate the operating system.

There are two main types of System Software:


Utility Software:

This allows the user to maintain the operating system and carry out configuration tasks.

Types of utility software include:

Backup

Creates a copy of files and data.

Defragmentation

Data is found on a disk, and so it may be highly spread apart, or sorted out of order, or in other words, it’s fragmented.

Defragmentation reorders the fragments of the data so that they are closer together and easier to locate.

Usually, this happens automatically.

Compression

Compression decreases the size of data files to reduce the amount of space taken up by storage.