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What is a User Interface? Explain its types. User Interface User Interface is the set of items on screen to interact with the computer . A user interacts and uses computer with the help of these items. For example, Windows Desktop is an example of user interface. Similarly Dos Prompt is also an example of user interface. Types of User Interface There are two main types of user interface: 1) Graphical user interface (GUI) 2) Command line user interface (CLI) 1) Graphical User Interface Graphical user interface or GUI provides different graphical items like windows, menus, tool bars and icons etc. A mouse or any other pointing device is used to work with these items. Commonly we select different commands from menu or toolbar with the help of mouse. We need not to type commands. We can double click on a file or folder to open it. We can double click on a shortcut to open a program. GUI is very easy to interact the computer. All versions of Windows, Macintosh, OS/2 and som

Topic: Explain Different Types Of Operating Systems with Examples Q. Explain different types of operating system What is an Operating system or OS The operating system is the most important program that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs and applications. The Operating system or OS provides the base on which other programs and applications are installed and executed . Operating systems perform basic tasks in computer systems, like: Basic Functions of Operating System Providing the user interface Receiving the input from the keyboard, Sending  the output to the monitor screen,  Keeping track of files and folders on the disk, and controlling the functions of peripheral devices such as printers, etc. Different Types of Operating Systems With Examples in Detail Different types of operating system with examples Following are different types of operating system with examples: Explain differe

Topic: Different Functions Of Operating Systems What is an Operating System? Operating systems are an important type of system software. They provide a lot of facilities to the users. An operating system can be defined as software that acts as an interface between the end user and the hardware. Computer users can use computer systems that have an OS or operating system installed. For example, Microsoft Windows is a popular PC operating system. What is the Importance of Operating System in Computer? Each computer must have at least one operating system to run other programs. for example, if there is no operating system in your computer, you will not be able to use the computer. When you install an OS like Microsoft Windows on your computer, it displays its GUI that is Windows desktop on startup. Now you can use your computer with the help of graphical user interface elements like icons, menus, shortcuts on your computer screen. Similarly if you wish to install application prog

Topic: Explain Different Components of Operating System Q. What is an Operating System? Explain Components of an Operating system. Operating System An operating system is a set of programs that manages all computer components and operations. An operating system works as an interface between the user and the computer hardware. Examples of Operating Systems Some popular operating systems are DOS, windows, Unix, Linux, and OS/2. Without Operating System, a computer cannot do anything. Users interact with the computer through operating system. Operating system acts as an interface between a user and computer hardware. Components of an Operating system An Operating system has many components to manage all resources of a computer system as following: 1.    Process Management CPU can perform one task at one time. If there are many tasks, operating system decides which task should get the CPU first. 2.     Main Memory Management Operating system manages memory (RAM)for

Use Of TR Tag <TR> tag is used to create rows in HTML Tables. <TR> is the opening tag to start a row and </TR> is a closing tag to end a row. You can place pairs of <td>...</td> tags to create data cells in a row within the <tr>...</tr> tags. for example to create a row with only one cell containing data "Apples", we will use the following html code.and Mangoes respectively: <tr> <td>Apples</td> </tr> Apples If you want to create a row with two cells containing data "Apples" and "Mangoes" respectively, we will use the following html code. <tr> <td>Apples</td> <td>Mangoes</td> </tr> Apples Mangoes You canm also create a header row with the help of <TR> tag and <TH> tags. For example, to create a header row with two header cells with contents "Employee" and "Salary", we will use the following HTML co

Border: It is used to specify a border and its thickness for a table. Cellspacing: It is used to specify the distance between adjacent cells in a table. Cellpadding : it is used to specify the distance between a cell and cell contents in a table. Width : It is used to specify width of a table in pixels or as percentage to screen width. Align : It is used to specify the horizontal alignment of a table. Possible horizontal alignment values are "left", "right" or "center". Valign : It is used to set the vertical alignment of a table as "top", "bottom" or "middle". Bgcolor : It sets the background color of a table. You can specify color names or hex values for the color. Example of table with border=1, width=200 and align=center attributes HTML Coding: <table border="1" width="200" align="center"> <tr> <th>Book</th><th>Price($)</th> </tr> <

Cellspacing and Cellpadding are two important attributes of  <Table> tag. As you know <Table> tag is used to create and display tables in HTML documents. What is CELLSPACING? Cellspacing is an important attribute of <Table> tag in HTML. Cellspacing specifies the spacing between adjacent cells in a table. Consider the following example of an HTML table with cellspacing attribute set to 50. Example of Cellspacing use <TABLE border="1" cellspacing="30"> <th>Name</th><th>Marks</th> <tr><td>Sajid Mahmood</td><td>666</td> <tr><td>Majid Karim</td><td>555</td> </table> Name Marks Sajid Mahmood 666 Majid Karim 555 Example of Cellspacing=15 <TABLE border="1" cellspacing="15"> <th>Name</th><th>Marks</th> <tr><td>Sajid Mahmood</td><td>666</td> <tr><td>Majid K