File Management

"Knowledge worker"

A knowledge worker is anyone whose daily job is to develop or use knowledge. In today's "Information Age", this encompasses a huge number of types of employment. In fact, over the past century, the "dominant type of occupation has gone from farm laborer, to blue collar worker, to white collar worker, to knowledge worker.", according to Brainbench CEO Mike Rusiello.
Knowledge workers need to organize, process, collect, record, rewrite, edit, and learn vast amounts of knowledge, in a short time. All this mental work demands a vast amount of organization. So where do knowledge workers find a powerful organization tool to make the job easier? The computer, of course-you knew that was coming.
The key to organization on the computer is through file management. If you are going to use a computer for work, school, or leisure-not just run programs on it, but truly use it as knowledge management tool-then it is absolutely essential to understand computer file management.



Operating Systems

A computer is nothing more than a doorstop without its operating system. Well, that's not quite fair, but the point is that the operating system is what ties everything you do on the computer together. The operating system:


· Is a platform that enables other programs to run on the computer.
· Translates input from devices such as the keyboard, the mouse, a scanner, etc.
· Sends output to devices such as a printer, the monitor, etc.
· Manages files and directories on the removable disks and hard drives connected to the computer.
· Provides tools for security, especially if the computer is part of a network.
Operating system relationship between hardware and application software