Microsoft Windows are one of the most used operating systems in the whole world. It is estimated that 80% of the computers in the world are run using Windows mainly because the GUI is very user-friendly and relatively easy to use. The software that runs using Windows is very easy to find, and the use of graphical user interface to manage files in the system is one of its core functions. The file management system is an administrator located in the operating system and is responsible for creating illusions on the existence folders in the memory of a computer. The operating systems have solved several business processes on the use of some set standards. First, it addresses the challenge of sharing resources when running multiple tasks at the same time. Moreover, they provide many standard libraries to be able to achieve some of the most basic tasks in business such as running applications like Excel functions and printing of materials. The libraries communicate between the applications and the operating system making the work done almost seamless and efficient all the time. The result of this is that much of the systems in an organization concentrate on undertaking the daily objectives and strategic goals in the most efficient and best way possible. The main challenge is making sure that the business processes should take place in an effective manner and that the strategic development and the execution are manageable at every step of the way.
In addition, the file management system allocates the file by interpretation of the hard disk and filling it into the memory while updating the record on who to allocate the file. In particular, the file manager can reallocate a file by updating the hard disk if any changes take place or rewriting occurs. Therefore, the file management is the storing, sorting, and handling of the allocated computer files that have some memory space. Ideally, through the process of file management, folders are maintained, multimedia materials and documents belong to several subcategories as a customized version of every user (Stallings, 2014). The system has several components that are responsible for undertaking all the functions of file management system. The components include the CPU that is the main component that undertakes all the instructions as given by the file manager, and the memory used mainly to process data for allocation of the space for storage. Additionally, it has the motherboard that allows all the components of the file management system to communicate with each other (Peter et al., 2016).
A Windows operating system has several requirements for any file management of any general-purpose system. One of them is that any user must be able to create, delete, read, write, and even be able to modify any files. Secondly, the user may also have controlled access to other uses files to protect personal data of other persons. Thirdly, the user must be able to control who accesses their files at any time. Fourthly, the user of any Windows operating system should be able to restructure their records in a manner appropriate to their particular problem. Additionally, the users must be able to move their data in between the files and ultimately use the backup and recovery functionalities in the case of damage to their records.
On the file types, many forms of the same exist in the Windows operating system. They are ordinary files that contain mostly the user personal information, and the user can edit, add, and ultimately adjust any data in the archive. The other is directory files that formally contains all file names and other information related to these particular files (Chandra, Verma, & Dwivedi, 2016). Lastly, there are special files that mainly represent physical devices such as networks and printers. A file structure should be in a format appreciated by the Windows operating system with a particular predetermined structure according to the file’s type that have an object file that is a sequence of bytes organized into several blocks that are machine language efficient. The Windows operating system has the code to support any file structures that it defines for its usage.
In a comparison of file management in Linux and Windows operating systems, there are several differences and similarities as well for both. In Linux, everything is a file, and if not, it is a process. In Linux, drive letters are not used to name files while in Windows, letters are useful in differentiating the different floppy drives (Stallings, 2014). In Linux, the system makes no difference between the files and directories at all while the Windows operating system differentiates the same efficiently.
Finally, the creation and modification of files and folders occur differently when using the command line in Linux and the Windows GUI. For the Linux command line, it is possible to nest a directory severally using the command line by executing two commands that are the path to creating and the file name to create the same. For Windows GUI, the user simply uses them by clicking the menu and using the delete or rename buttons to make any changes they may want.
References
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Peter, S., Li, J., Zhang, I., Ports, D. R., Woos, D., Krishnamurthy, A., & Roscoe, T. (2016). Arrakis: The operating system is the control plane. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 33(4), 11.
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