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Utility Software m3

Utility software is designed to analyze, configure, optimize, or maintain a computer system. It includes programs like antivirus software, backup utilities, disk checkers, file managers, and network utilities. Utility software focuses on how the computer infrastructure like hardware, operating system, and storage operates. It is often technical and targeted at advanced users, unlike application software for tasks like creating documents and entertainment. Some common types of utility software are antivirus programs, backup utilities, disk checkers, file managers, and network utilities.

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Utility Software m3

Utility software is designed to analyze, configure, optimize, or maintain a computer system. It includes programs like antivirus software, backup utilities, disk checkers, file managers, and network utilities. Utility software focuses on how the computer infrastructure like hardware, operating system, and storage operates. It is often technical and targeted at advanced users, unlike application software for tasks like creating documents and entertainment. Some common types of utility software are antivirus programs, backup utilities, disk checkers, file managers, and network utilities.

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UTILITY SOFTWARE

Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. A single piece of utility software is usually called a utility or tool. Utility software usually focuses on how the computer infrastructure (including the computer hardware, operating system, application software and data storage) operates. Due to this focus, utilities are often rather technical and targeted at people with an advanced level of computer knowledge in contrast to application software, which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or viewing websites.

Utility Anti-virus

Function utilities scan for computer viruses.

Backup

Data compression

utilities can make a copy of all information stored on a disk, and restore either the entire disk (e.g. in an event of disk failure) or selected files (e.g. in an event of accidental deletion). utilities output a shorter stream or a smaller file when provided with a stream or file.

Disk checkers

can scan operating hard drive

Disk cleaners

can find files that are unnecessary to computer operation, or take up considerable amounts of space. Disk cleaner helps the user to decide what to delete when their hard disk is full.

Disk defragmenters can detect computer files whose contents are broken across several locations on the hard disk, and move the fragments to one location to increase efficiency. Disk partitions can divide an individual drive into multiple logical drives, each with its own file system which can be mounted by the operating system and treated as an individual drive.

Disk space analyzers

for the visualization of disk space usage by getting the size for each folder (including sub folders) & files in folder or drive. showing the distribution of the used space.

File managers

provide a convenient method of performing routine data management tasks, such as deleting, renaming, cataloging, uncataloging, moving, copying, merging, generating and modifying data sets.

Cryptographic

utilities encrypt and decrypt streams and files.

Network utilities

analyze the computer's network connectivity, configure network

Hex editors

directly modify the text or data of a file. These files could be data or an actual program. check for memory failures.

Memory tester

settings, check data transfer or log events.

Registry cleaners

clean and optimize the Windows registry by removing old registry keys that are no longer in use.

Screensavers

System monitors

desired to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. Contemporary screensavers are used primarily for entertainment or security. for monitoring resources and performance in a computer system.

System profilers

provide detailed information about the software installed and hardware attached to the computer.

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