Flashcards: System software

SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is the creator company of the computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software, SANDRA.

In computing, a loader is the part of an operating system that is responsible for loading programs and libraries.

In computing, D-Bus or DBus is an inter-process communication (IPC) and remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism that allows communication between multiple computer programs (that is, processes) concurrently running on the same machine.

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.

In computing, a device driver (commonly referred to simply as a driver) is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer.

PartitionMagic is a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by the PowerQuest corporation, but now owned by Symantec.

Parallels Workstation is the first commercial software product released by Parallels, Inc.

Process Explorer is a freeware task manager and system monitor for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals, which has been acquired by Microsoft.

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to provide information about video cards and GPUs.

NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP network device drivers (for devices such as PCI cards, USB modems, and routers) on Linux operating systems.

Radmin (Remote Administrator) is a product of Famatech Corp.

DeskSpace, formerly known as Yod'm 3D (short for Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D) is a virtual desktop manager available for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.

HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer or rather Hardware Annotation Library) is a software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction.

KeyRus was a DOS-based TSR device driver for keyboard and display, written by the Donetsk student and hacker Dmitry Gurtyak in 1989.

Process Lasso is a process priority optimizer for Windows developed by Jeremy Collake of Bitsum LLC.

Task managers can display currently running services (processes) as well as those that were stopped.

Speccy, developed by Piriform, is a freeware utility software and runs under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista and XP for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems, which shows the user information about hardware and software of the computer.

TechExcel ServiceWise is a configurable and scalable software suite for help desk management and IT service management.

Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.

System programming (or systems programming) is the activity of programming computer system software.

Command CICS or Command-CICS is a software product that allows organizations to migrate from "Macro level" CICS to "Command level" CICS without any re-programming so that companies could migrate to later versions of CICS that did not support macro level application programs.

ManageEngine AssetExplorer is asset management software which manages IT assets.

Driver Booster is a one-click driver updater developed by IObit to maintain hardware devices by updating and installing outdated, missing, and faulty drivers for common users.

System software, or systems software, is computer software designed to provide services to other software.