Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Advantage CSV Import via File Server Sharing Primer Tutorial

Welcome to the Advantage (Database Server) CSV Import via File Server Sharing Primer Tutorial where you can see the preparation of the CSV data being shared between a Mac laptop (where it was originally) and a Windows (PC) Laptop where … Continue reading

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VB.Net MultiThreading and Procexp Windows Primer Tutorial

A lot of desktop processing tasks require you to do more than one thing at a time (calling all afficianados of multitasking). You can decide to adopt a supervisory scripting approach, where some scripting language fires off other processes while … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Activity Monitor and System Preferences in Mac OS X, which are tools to respectively monitor and tailor Mac OS X settings and arrangements for personal use. Activity Monitor … Continue reading

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Automator in Mac OS X Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Automator in Mac OS X, which is a tool to organize the running of your Mac OS X applications interactively, and can involve the processing of multiple actions … Continue reading

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Windows Task Manager and Control Panel Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Task Manager and Control Panel in Windows, which are tools to respectively monitor and /or run applications and tailor windows settings and arrangements for personal use. Windows Task … Continue reading

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Task Schedular in Windows Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Task Schedular in Windows, which is a tool to organize the running of your Windows applications interactively or unattended, at specified times. Our tutorial shows an interactive task, … Continue reading

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Operating System Software … The Best Things in Life Are Free … ish

  Do you like getting the most out of things?   Does waste irk you?   Does water run up hill?   2 out of 3 isn’t bad … continue … Are you sure when you got your laptop/mobile phone/tablet/desktop PC you looked around … Continue reading

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Windows Command Prompt Via Batch File Primer Tutorial

Tutorial … Transcript: Do you own a Windows computer? Have you heard of Command Prompt, or MS-DOS, or the DOS prompt? It is like Bash Scripting on Linux or Korn Shell scripting on Unix and could open a whole new … Continue reading

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