Utilities
Computer Science: OCR A Level, topic 2.2.2
Utility Software
Utility software is a category that relates to the wellbeing of your computer to keep it running smoothly and helps to keep it safe.
Utility software
- Utility software is designed to keep your computer running smoothly or to keep it safe from threats.
- A utility piece of software usually serves one specific purpose such as a disk defragmenter.
Examples
- There are several main categories of utilities such as:
- Anti-virus.
- Firewalls.
- Disk clean-up.
- Compression.
- Defragmentation.
- Most users will need these installed, but won’t use them very often.
Test yourself on Utilities
Which of the following is NOT a utility software?