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What is the need of process management?
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Windows Scheduling
What type of scheduling is used in windows?
pllaxman
- Apr 11th, 2008
The flow of Mail Server depends upon the Mail Server Configuration done by a System Admin & also depends upon the software packages like, postmaster, exchange server, etc.,!Generally the base conc...
pllaxman
- Apr 11th, 2008
There are many different scheduling process can be done in windows like data backup schedule, windows automatic update schedule, firewall settings, etc., lot more!Can you please clarify me what type of scheduling you require??
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Difference between FAT and NTFS
What is the difference between FAT and NTFS?
geetesh_1012
- May 19th, 2008
FAT is a short name for File Allocation Table whereas NTFS is a shart name for New Technology File System.FAT is supported by WIN 98,2000,2003,XP whereas NTFS is supported by WIN NT,2000,2003,XP,VISTA...
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OOP in Software Development
Describe how OOP is used in software development
sravan_reddy001
- Jun 24th, 2008
The Object Oriented Programming is used in Software development as the softwares developed represent the real time situations. The real time properties of the software can be very well developed with help of the OOP
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PC Refresh
When a user is refresh his PC then what process does the system go?
rrsain
- Aug 6th, 2008
When anyone refreshes the pc, the random access memory of system is refreshed or we can say the processes required less frequently are terminated and the RAM is less utilized by those processes
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Memory Mapped Input / Output
What is the difference between memory mapped i/o and i/o mapped i/o?
sk_seeker
- Oct 4th, 2008
This question can be answered at two levels.+ First, what is memory and IO mapped IO?? Advts and disadvts, etc+ Why were they invented?? I.e. a Comp Arch History PerspectiveBoth methods are used to co...
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.log File
What is the use of (.log) file. Where it is used?
contact_sravan
- Oct 31st, 2008
.log Files are used as log registers. These files contains the user details like session starting time and session ending time
sravan_reddy001
- Jun 24th, 2008
The log file is just as same as the normal text file. The content of these files are written by applications(the logs created by them). These files will have all the actions performed by the software which might of use to user to know the behaviour of the application
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If the OS is just a collection pf programs and if it is executed by the processor just like any other program, is the OS a process? If so, how is it controlled?
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UncaAlby
- Nov 8th, 2008
Yes, it is executed by the hardware like any other program. It controls itself.This is why you have the concept of a kernel, which would be the smallest possible piece of the operating system th...
sk_seeker
- Dec 22nd, 2007
Execution contexts can be of two types: thread/process context OR an Interrupt context. What this means is that to execute code, one has to be in a thread context or a an Interrupt context. OS code or...
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How to access data from other O.S
How can we access data from other operating system while login to another operating system? is it possible? plz help me.
shreekanthss
- Feb 3rd, 2009
If you are logging into linux then you can directly access data from windows xp and all.But linux file system is not visible when you are using xp and all.so u cant access data from linux.i dont know the accessing methods.
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Windows 2000 Security Features
What are the security features in Windows 2000 OS?
sakthi_kiruthika
- Apr 16th, 2009
Windows 2000 OS contain so many features some of features are:1. Converting NTFS format2. Disabling TCP/IP and IIS3. Securing guest and administrator account4. Creating a local security policy5. Creating groups6. Disable sharing
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Subprogram Calling
What happens in OS when a subprogram is called?(Related hardware registers)
vurukalasc
- Apr 30th, 2009
When a sub program is called all the temporary results are stored in process status word (psw) and the return address is stored in the stack.
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Speed Screen
Explain What is Speed Screen?
rritesht
- May 14th, 2009
Quite simply, SLR is technology built into MetaFrame Presentation Servers and ICA clients that allows users to experience smooth typing in environments where there is high latency between the ICA clie...
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Dual Core Processor
What is difference between dual core and core 2 duo processors?
rustosubhash
- Jun 8th, 2009
These term are related to speed of processor in the machine ,The Dual core is four ?time faster than the pentium4 and the core 2 duo is two times faster than the dual core, it means core 2 duo is 8 time faster than a pentium4.Subhash patel
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IRQ
What is IRQ?
ROHIT_4444
- Jun 26th, 2009
Stands for "Interrupt Request." PCs use interrupt requests to manage various hardware operations. Devices such as sound cards, modems, and keyboards can all send interrupt requests to the processor. F...
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UNIX Scheduling
Which is the scheduling used by UNIX?
anukriti
- Jul 5th, 2009
FCFS schedulingSJFS (premptive and non premptive)Priority SchedulingRR scheduling!
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Process and a Program
What is the difference between process and program? Is this difference important in single process operating system? Why? Why not?
indu_sweety
- Jul 10th, 2009
Program is passive entity. After executing the program it becomes process, means it is active entity.
ankscorek
- Mar 8th, 2009
Process is a passive entity whereas Program is an active entityProcess can fork out to enable exec of their children.
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Disable Data From Recovery
How to disable and protect private data from recovery?
saif.paktin
- Aug 2nd, 2009
When you plan to delete your personal data from your computer and you do not like to some one recover it back then do this.1. Change the extension of file which you want to delete.Example the file you...
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What do you mean by KERNEL THREADS?
karthika bn
- Aug 4th, 2009
These are the threads that performs thread creation, scheduling and management in kernel space. These are supported directly by os but these are slower than user threads. However, since the kernel is...
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What would system restore do? Technically what would it do?
simple_anagh
- Aug 13th, 2009
System restore will go back to proper settings our best configuration Point to be notted it deletes all applications installed but not documentations.
indiansysengg
- Dec 11th, 2006
Its is a kind backup utility,which help when the O/s gets corrupted or we lose our setting of O/s .Always this should be enabled in windows so that we can restore the latest settings when we face any problems
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Installing XP and Vista together
What are the advantages and disadvantages of installing XP operating system and Vista operating system on to one computer?
simple_anagh
- Aug 13th, 2009
Installing XP and Vista doesnt have any drawback. Having two OS system helps you to retrive data if one OS crashes then from another OS you can easily reterive the data.
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