How do computer hardware and software work?

Now we are the inhabitants of computer technological age. Every aspect related to our lives and others are controlling by the computer technology. So it a bound duty to have proper understanding about this computer technology and basically it is highly necessary of having basic knowledge about the computer hardware components and software programs. If you wish to get better performance of your computer it is obvious duty of getting proper understanding for both the inseparable parts hardware and software.

A computer is composed with a number of hardware components; each and every component has their particular functions. First of all you have to know the name of all the hardware components and then about their functions and then operating system. Among several hardware components some play very vital role to run computer, they are motherboard, processor, RAM (Random Access Memory), Hard disk drive, keyboard, mouse, monitor and joystick.

Motherboard is the main board with which most of the external and internal hardware components are attached, very popularly known as the “brain” of computer. If you feel unknown problems you can replace your RAM from one socket to another one to fix the problem. It is quite impossible to run computer without using keyboard and mouse; both are external and input devices play most important role. Another potential hardware component is hard drive that stores all sorts of word documents, programs and other files. You add additional hard drive to store more files.

Software is soul of hardware components. Software stores necessary instructions for functioning hardware components. Basically there are three types of software- application software, programming software and system software. System software helps to run the computer hardware and computer system. It includes device drivers, operating systems, servers and many more. Programming software is used by the programmer for writing computer programs. While on the other hand, application software permits end users to carry out one or more definite tasks.