Difference between revisions of "Ms technology vocabulary control panel"
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| + | The Control Panel is the section of a computer console that has manual controls for regulating computer operations such as adding and removing hardware, changing accessibility options, checking the performance and personalizing and controlling user accounts. Additional applets can be supplied by a third party software. | ||
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| + | The Control Panel has always been a part of the Microsoft Windows operating system since its first release (Windows 1.0), with many applets being added in later and more current versions. Beginning with Windows 95, the Control Panel was a special folder that did not physically exist, but contained shortcuts to various applets that were stored as .cpl files. | ||
| + | In the recent versions of Windows, the Control Panel has two views: Classic and Category View, and it’s possible to switch between these through an option that appears on the top-left corner of the window. | ||
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| + | In the earliest Mac OS, the control panels were combined into one small Desk Accessory. Susan Kare, former Creative Director of Apple, designed the interface for the original control panel, and tried to make it as user-friendly as possible. This design was used until System 6 when separate control panel files ("cdev"s) were added, only accessible through the control panel. | ||
| + | In System 6, Mac OS X's equivalent of control panels are found as "Preference Panes" exclusively accessible through the System Preferences utility's unified interface. “Preference Panes” in Mac OS X are small documents rather than independent applications. | ||
| + | With the debut of System 7 the control panels were separated into separate small application-like processes available through the Finder, and by a sub-menu in the Apple menu provided by Apple Menu Options. By Mac OS 9, many control panels were true applications. | ||
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Revision as of 11:04, 13 January 2009
April Chang
January 2009
Computer 7-5
The Control Panel is the section of a computer console that has manual controls for regulating computer operations such as adding and removing hardware, changing accessibility options, checking the performance and personalizing and controlling user accounts. Additional applets can be supplied by a third party software.
The Control Panel has always been a part of the Microsoft Windows operating system since its first release (Windows 1.0), with many applets being added in later and more current versions. Beginning with Windows 95, the Control Panel was a special folder that did not physically exist, but contained shortcuts to various applets that were stored as .cpl files. In the recent versions of Windows, the Control Panel has two views: Classic and Category View, and it’s possible to switch between these through an option that appears on the top-left corner of the window.
In the earliest Mac OS, the control panels were combined into one small Desk Accessory. Susan Kare, former Creative Director of Apple, designed the interface for the original control panel, and tried to make it as user-friendly as possible. This design was used until System 6 when separate control panel files ("cdev"s) were added, only accessible through the control panel. In System 6, Mac OS X's equivalent of control panels are found as "Preference Panes" exclusively accessible through the System Preferences utility's unified interface. “Preference Panes” in Mac OS X are small documents rather than independent applications. With the debut of System 7 the control panels were separated into separate small application-like processes available through the Finder, and by a sub-menu in the Apple menu provided by Apple Menu Options. By Mac OS 9, many control panels were true applications.
