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Week 2 - The steps to to an efficient OS

This week made me more prepared to comprehend how an operating system, such as Windows 10, and Windows 11 are created to enhance the usability and productivity. The most notable lesson that I have learned was the ease in using a graphical user interface (GUI) to interact with a computer. Users are able to move around the menus, icons, and well-organized layouts instead of using orders and commands hence multitasking is very easier. This can be particularly handy when managing several applications simultaneously and keeping things in order in school or at work. I also got to know that these graphical features are not always helpful in any case. They demand system resources such as memory and processing capabilities which can make the performance in older machines slow. The other facts which are also important is the impact of user familiarity on productivity as significant design changes may not feel very intuitive at the start. In whole, this week has demonstrated that the effective op...

Week 1 Posting – Introduction to My IT Blog

Hello, everyone. My name is Cameron, and welcome to my IT blog. It is pretty cool to be able to start a blog as part of my cybersecurity work. I've started my computer journey young, as a kid when I first started to play games on one around 9 or 10 years old. As I grew, I became more fascinated with them and how they work, and wanted to unlock more potential. When I was about 14, I managed to take apart my parents' pre-built desktop to see if I could put a better GPU(I was able to with research online) when the desktop only used an integrated one. I finally built one when I was about 16 and am still using the same one today, upgrading it as needed. I have run into quite a few problems, but 95 percent of the time, I have been able to resolve them. This blog will help me document what I learn in my journey to cybersecurity. I think will be a good tool for the future as well to help me understand and track all the components and software I learn in this course. I am excited to con...