Whats the difference between a Utility and a Program

[CharlieJV]

I thought I knew until I see all these posts under Programs that seem to me Utilities.

Keyboard, Popup menu, Old paper... none of these are full programs in my opinion but stuff to use in full programs.

I think it is all in the eye of the beholder.

To me:

"Utility" and "Software" are categories of program, or the categories of results from programming.

A utility is very simple in purpose/functionality/utility, and software is more grandiose.  All of these are to accomplish tasks.

Then there are programs that aren't about accomplishing tasks per say, but more about the enjoyment/entertainment/learning of programming them and/or running them.

So, just labels for classification, because lord knows we are nothing without having ways of classifying things.

For me, Notepad is a utility.  Wordpad is a much more functional utility.  MS Word is software.