Utility Software

Utility Software - Software designed to help maintain the computer system

Defragmentation - Reorganising data on a hard drive to put broken up files back together and collect up free space.

File management software - Utilities that allow the user to perform common operations on files such as copying, deleting and moving.

Incremental backup  - A record of all the changes since the last incremental backup

Disk formatting - Initialising a disk for storage by identifying the data blocks on the disk and creating the file allocation table.

File allocation table - An index of all the files that are stored on a disk and their allocation. It also keeps a record of free space on the disk.

Application Software - Software made and designed for the end user