Windows Vista is the operating systems that came between Windows XP and Windows 7. As of 2013, the newest version of windows operating system is Windows 8.
When you turn on your computer it goes through the boot process checking for hardware, device drivers, etc. The last step during the boot process is to find the operating system. So if you only have Windows, that is your operating system.
OS, in terms of computer, means the Operating System that your computer is currentl using. If you're using Windows as your default program your Operating System will either be XP, 2000, 98 or ME. The same goes for Mac, but these will be ones like Leopard
If your computer is lagging during a download, use your most trusted internet search engine to locate the Windows repair tool for your Windows operating system.
"Disk Operating System"
A 386 Windows 95 desktop computer isn't worth much at all. It is a very old operating system and goes for about $50.00, if that. It's also very hard to find online.
The computer motherboard has a BIOS (Basic In-Out System). When the power is turned on, the BIOS check the basic system, beeps if it is okay, goes looking for the harddrive (or other place the OS might be stored). Then it has the instructions to start the OS. Voila! On a PC, the operating system is stored on the hard disk; mostly in the folder called Windows, and all its subfolders.
Not necessarily, though operating systems have higher and higher system requirements as time goes on, and the system must be able to meet those requirements to run the operating system productively.
when a process or anything makes a system call ,it goes in kernel(operating system).
The latest open source operating system include the Kubuntu Linux and the Fedora Linux. The open source operating system refers to an OS that runs on a computer and is free for use and to be modified.
This would depend on the system you have. Widows would be Microsoft, Mac would be Apple, and the list goes on.
Command Prompt is the command-line interpreter used within the Windows operating system. As Mac OS X is based on the Unix operating system it uses the a Unix Shell command-line interpreter. You can access the Shell by running the Terminal application which can be found in the Utilities folder which is within the Applications folder.
Windows Xp users can't upgrade to the newest version of Windows Movie Maker (which is v2.6) because that particular version only supports Vista operating systems.The same goes with Windows Live Movie Maker... It only supports Vista.