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8-3 naming system
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The naming restrictions present in a DOS environment that restricts a file name to a maximum of 8 characters and a maximum of 3 for the file extensions.
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ASCII
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The industry standard 8-bit characters used to define text characters, consisting of 96 upper and lowercase letters, plus 32 non-printing control characters, each of which is numbered. These numbers were designed to achieve uniformity among different computer devices for printing and the exchange of simple text documents.
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ATRIB.EXE
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MS-Dos command used to view and configure attributes on files and folders at the command prompt.
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Boot.ini
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A text file used during the bot process of Windows 200/XP that provides a listing of all OS's currently installed on the system anf available for NTLDR.
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Command line Interface
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A text-mode input environment for entering commands. Launched using either CMD.ECE in NT and above or Command.exe in all versions of Windows.
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Device Manager
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A utility that allows technicians to examine and configure all the hardware and drivers installed on a machine.
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Disk Administrator
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The GUI interface utility in Windows NT for managing hard drives. You can create partitions, format drives and other administrative duties installed drives.
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Disk Management
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The GUI interface utility Windows 2000/XP for managing hard drives. You can create partitions, format deices and other administrative duties to installed drives.
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End User License Agreement
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An agreement that accompanies a piece of software which the user must agree to in order to use the software.
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Extension
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The three letter that follow a filename and indicates whate type of file it is.
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File System
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A scheme that determines how an operating system stores and retrieves data from a medium. FAT32 and NTFS are the most commonly used in Windows today.
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Filename
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A name assigned to a file when the file is first written on a disk. Every file on a disk within the same folder must have a unique name. Since Windows 95, you may use up to 32 characters for file names and filenames can contain any character (including spaces) except the following: \/:*?<>|.
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Graphical User Interface
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An interface is the method by which a computer and a user interact. Early interfaces were text-based; that is, the user "talked" to the computer by typing and the computer responded with text on a CRT. This interface, on the other hand, enables the user to interact with the computer graphically, by manipulating icons that represent programs or documents with a mouse or other pointing device.
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Hardware Abstraction Layer
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A part of the Windows OS that separates system-specific device drivers from the rest of the system.
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High Level Format
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The most common type of formatting, It prepares a disk to receive files by creating the file system on that disk.
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Microsoft Knowledge Base
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The collection of articles on every conceivable Microsoft software ever released, including issues regarding installation, trouble shooting, and compatibility problems.
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Mount Point
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A volume that has been created that points to an empty folder on another drive rather being assigned a drive letters.
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MSDOS.SYS
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A major system file introduced with MS-DOS. Its function has changed over the years and today is a text file used to point IO.SYS to the operating system. Similar in functino to BOOT.INI.
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NTFS Permissions
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A set of access restrictions available on hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system.
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NTLDR
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A major Windows NT/2000/XP boot file launched by the MBR or MFT. This file reads the BOOT.INI configuration file for any installed operating system.
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path
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The route the operating system must follow to find an executable program stored in a subdirectory.
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Quick Launch
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A sectinon of the Task Bar that can be used to launch commonly used programs with a single click.
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Registry
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A complex binary file used to store configuration data about a particular system. To edit this text-based database, a user can use the run-line utilities REGEDIT or REGEDIT32. The preferred method of editing, however, is the Control Panel applets.
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Swap File
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Called a paging file in Windows 2000/XP, this is the name for the larde file on the hard drive used by virtual memory. In Windows 9X the file is stored in c:\Windows\Win386.SWP and in 2000/XP it is stored on the root and is called pagefile.sys.
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Taskbar
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Located by default at the bottom of the desktop, the Taskbar contains the Start button, the System Tray, the Quick Launch bar and the buttons for running applications.
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