Y10-04-P23: Utility Software
Y10-04-P23: Utility Software
Learning objectives
In this lesson you will learn to:
For more information and additional student activities see Topic 3.2
of the student book.
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Y10-04-P23: Utility software
Utility software
• Previously you have learned that there are two types of software -
systems and applications. Operating systems are a type of
systems software.
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Y10-04-P23: Utility software
Research task
• Your first activity today is to research some of the tools that are
available to perform utility tasks.
• There are a huge array of free and proprietary tools for performing
these tasks.
• The types of utility program you need to research are:
• file repair/recovery software
• backup/recovery software
• file compression software
• disk defragmentation software.
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Y10-04-P23: Utility software
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Y10-04-P23: Utility software