Subject: Computer. Week2: Booting the Computer |[ 10% to @steemkidss]

Booting

Booting is the preparation process carried out by a computer to get itself ready for use.

There are two types of booting:

• Cold booting
• Warm booting

Cold Booting:

Cold booting is the preparation process carried out by a computer that was previously shutdown. So each time you press the power button and allow the computer to get ready, it is a cold boot.

Warm Booting:

Warm booting, also known as restarting. As it's name suggests, it is process of asking a computer who had passed through the cold booting process to boot again.

To warm boot a computer, the computer must have passed through the cold booting process and must be on. Restarting was used to regain control of a computer after hanging, it was also needed after an installation. Morden computers with better programming and advanced Operating Systems rarely need to be restarted.

The Desktop

This is that coloursful screen that appears once the boot process is completed. On the desktop we have a wall paper and some icons

The icons

Icons are small pictures on the desktop that represents commands.

The Taskbar

This is a bar often found at the base of the desktop, it carries a system clock at the extreme right, and also carries the icon representing the currently running programs.

Shutdown

Instead of saying, "off the computer" we use the right term, shutdown the computer. The shutdown process will be slightly different on computers running operating systems like Linux, windows7, 8, and 10.

Some people believe that cold booting is the first time you boot a computer in the morning, after it was shutdown all through the night. This is not totally correct. You should note that, every time you shutdown a computer, the next time you press the power button for it to boot, it's a cold boot and this has nothing to do with the physical temperature of the computer.

Why was/is a restart needed

• Needed to finalise some installations
• Needed after some important updates
• Needed to solve some small problems
• To solve "hanging" problem
• Helps flush the RAM.

Last lesson's assignment

You were to mention the name of this part of a computer

The correct answer is System Unit
The following gave correct answers to the assignment question
@madilyn02

Next lesson

After booting a computer, it's logical to load programs and use them which is what we shall be doing in our next lesson so please keep a date with manuelhooks.

Thankful to @benton3, @fortwis09 and @steemkidss for appreciating my post on part of the computer.

Special mention
@ngoenyi
@eliany

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