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OCR: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND FILE MANAGEMENT 189 USER INTERFACES What user interface? user interface can be defined as the combination of hardware and software that helps people and computers communicate with each other. Your computer's user interface includes a display device, mouse, and keyboard that allow you to view and manipulate your computing environment t also includes software elements, such as icons menus and toolbar buttons. How does the operating system affect the user interface? The operating system's user interface defines the so-called look and feel compatible software For example application software that runs under Windows uses a standard set of menus, buttons, and toolbars based uo the operating system's user interface. Originally, computers had command- line interface that requ ...