The non-technical term for the sudden failure of a computer is "crashed".
An operating system coordinates the activities of computer hardware
The way a computer communicates with a peripheral device is through a device driver. A device driver is a low level computer program that allows higher level programs to communicate with a hardware device connected to the computer bus. Device drivers are hardware dependent and specific to an operating system.
Firmware, Operating System, and Utilities.
Compatibility refers to equipment and software that can be used together. You would not want to have Windows XP on your computer and then buy a program that requires Windows Vista or higher. Likewise, if you intend to run a certain operating system, you would not want to buy a computer which does not support the operating system or the drivers needed for the operating system to work properly. If you wanted to run Windows 10, you would not want to buy a used computer that was made when Windows 98 was popular.
The kernel resides in your OS of the computer. the kernel has one main function that is to act as translator from applications to your CPU, Memory, and various other devices. In the world of Microsoft it's a go between for applications and the device drivers. In Linux, Mac OS, and, any other Unix based OS the kernel directly talks to the hardware with out the need for device drivers. For more info see the related link
Try reloading your system drivers (original Operating System disk).
The operating system communicates with computer hardware using small programs called drivers.
If you can find drivers for that operating system for your hardware, then yes.
Drivers are part of your computer's operating system, they are not part of Minecraft at all.
Print drivers are code segments that allow the operating system to communicate with the printer attached to the computer.
Computer Systems are the physical hardware, drivers, and operating systems which comprise the basic functionality of the computer. Examples of physical hardware include input devices (keyboard, mouse, and stylus), output devices (monitor, printer), and data storage devices (hard drive, USB stick, flash stick). Drivers are specialized bits of software that let the operating system talk to the hardware. Operating systems provide the groundwork for running computer applications by using the physical hardware through the drivers to provide a desired functionality. Examples of operating systems include Windows 7, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS, and many more. Computer applications are provide the user with desired functionality. Examples for word processing are Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and LibreOffice. Examples for multimedia players are VLC, Windows Media Player, Winamp, MPlayer, and Xine. Examples of web browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.
The operating system has different layers. The different layers includes the shell, the utilities, the compilers, device drivers and the applications.
A Computer Registry is a database that stores all the configuration settings and options of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It stores settings for operating system components, applications, 3rd party applications, kernel, device drivers, sam, services, and user interface. You can go to "run" and type "Regedit" to access the windows registry. If you are not familiar with the Registry, do not make any changes otherwise you can do some serious damage.
Windows is the operating system on a Microsoft computer or an Apple computer running windows drivers. Without windows your computer would not work.
The kernel is one of the primary nodes of an operating system for a computer. It contains operating system core functions and the device drivers.
Printer drivers - are small programs that enable the operating software (eg Windows) to recognise that the printer is attached to the computer. They literally allow the printer and computer to 'talk' to each other.
Drivers and an Operating System such as Mac OSX or Windows Vista are essential.