Week 5

In this week, we have learnt about the anatomy of Microsoft Windows Operating System. Microsoft released a number of Windows operating systems ranging from Windows xx, NT, Server from 1985 till now. The latest is Windows 8 that just been released in 2012. However, we still didn’t know the detail of this update windows so we will focus on windows 7 first rather than windows 8. the main element of windows 7 are aero view, taskbar, search, libraries and gadgets. 

In order to runWindows 7, your PC must have 1 GHz or faster 32-bit or 64 bit processor, 1 GB RAM or 2GB RAM, 16 GB available hard disk space or 20 GB and directX 9 graphic device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver. Microsoft Windows operating system contain a special folder which are presented to the user through an interface as an abstract concept, instead of an absolute folder path. This folder are used for storing application settings and files, storing internet files, saving temporary files, storing shortcut to other files and so on. The main windows special folders are desktop folder, start menu folder and personal document folder.