Computer Questions

Switching between portrait and landscape modes involves the page setup dialog box.

All the data in a computer system consists of binary information. 'Binary' means there are only 2 possible values: 0 and 1.

Computer software translates the information you actually give on it such as decimal numbers, text, photos, sound, and video to the binary information.

ZIP file is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. Lossless is a fairly popular data compression method that is used in a number of different applications. Files can become corrupted when they are transferred over the internet in an uncompressed format. It enables devices to transmit or store the same amount of data in fewer bits.

The two broad categories of software in a computer are

1. System software
2. Application software

System software controls how the system works and enables user to access all of the system hardware and application software

The OS, utility programs and drivers come under system software.

Application software are software used by the user to perform specific task. They are installed according to the user's requirements.

The word processor, web browser, players, spreadsheets etc... come under this application software.

In a spreadsheet program, when a data is changed all calculations are recalculated.

CTRL + B is computer keyboard shortcut bolds selected text.

CTRL + I is used for making the selected text italic

SHIFT + CTRL + S used for SAVE AS option for any document or file.

Round-robin (RR) is one of the algorithms employed by process and network schedulers in computing. It falls under the category of Preemptive scheduling. In computing, the running task is interrupted for some time without requiring its cooperation and resumed later when the priority task has finished its execution. This is called preemptive scheduling. 

Internet Explorer is the most widely used internet browser in the world made by Microsoft in 1995.