computer hardware equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system such as a computer or information appliance. Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, digital cameras, joysticks, and microphones. Processing Devices • A processing device is any component in a computer that manages the storage and retrieval of information. Typical examples of processing devices include central- processing units, computer motherboards, network cards, graphics-processing units and sound cards. Output Device • An output device is any device used to send data from a computer to another device or user. Most computer data output that is meant for humans is in the form of audio or video. Thus, most output devices used by humans are in these categories. Examples include monitors, projectors, speakers, headphones and printers IPO Cycle Computer Software • Software is a set of instructions, data or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks. Opposite of hardware, which describes the physical aspects of a computer, software is a generic term used to refer to applications, scripts and programs that run on a device. Types Of Software • There are two main types of oftware: • systems software • application software. System software Application Software Computer Language • A Computer language includes various languages that are used to communicate with a Computer machine. Some of the languages like programming language which is a set of codes or instructions used for communicating the machine. Machine code is also considered as a computer language that can be used for programming. Types Of Computer Language Computer Virus • A computer virus is a malicious program that self-replicates by copying itself to another program. In other words, the computer virus spreads by itself into other executable code or documents. The purpose of creating a computer virus is to infect vulnerable systems, gain admin control and steal user sensitive data • कम्प्युटर भाइरस एउटा खराब प्रोग्राम हो .जुन आफैलाई अको प्रोग्राममा प्रतितलति गरे र नक्कल गर्द छ। अको शब्दमा, कम्प्युटर भाइरस आफैंबाट अन्य कार्ाद न्वर्न र्ोग्य कोड वा कागजािहरूमा फैतलन्छ। कम्प्युटर भाइरस तसजदनाको उद्दे श्य कमजोर प्रणालीहरूलाई संक्रतमि गनुद, व्यवस्थािक तनर्न्त्रण प्राप्त गनुद र प्रर्ोगकिाद को संवेर्नशील डाटा चोरी गनुद हो Types of virus • Boot Sector Virus • Direct Action Virus • Resident Virus • Multipartite Virus • Polymorphic Virus • Overwrite Virus • Spacefiller Virus MS-DOS Commands • cd : Change directory or display current directory path. • cls : Clear the window. • dir : Display list of contents of current directory. • help : Display list of commands or help about a command. • notepad : Run the Windows Notepad text editor. • type : Displays the contents of a text file.