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Accessibility Options
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Windows feature used to support users with limited sight,hearing or mobility.It includes special keyboard,sound,display,and mouse configuration.
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Active Directory
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A centralized database that contains information about a network's users,workstations,servers,printers,and other resources.This is essential to maintaining,organizing and securing the resources on a larger network,because it allows network administrators to centrally manage resources.It is also extensible,meaning it can be configured to grow and to be personalized for any company.
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Administrator account
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A user account,created when the OS is first installed,that is allowed complete,unfettered access to the system without restriction.
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Administrators group
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This group is the least restrictive group available.They have full control of the computer,the files and folders on it,the local area network,and the configured user accounts.
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Backup Operators Group
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This group can back up and restore files on the computer,regardless of the permissions on those files.
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Built-in Groups
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Predefined,default local group created on a Windows XP machine.
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Creator Owner Group
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The account that created or "owns" an object,usually a user account.
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Device Driver
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Software that is used to allow a computer and a piece of hardware to communicate.Device drivers that are incompatible,corrupt,outdated,or of the wrong version for the hardware can cause errors that are difficult to diagnose
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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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Driver Signing
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A digital signature that Microsoft incoporates into driver and system files as a way to verify the files and to ensure that they are not inappropiately overwritten.Ensures that installed drivers will not destabilize the operating system.
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Everyone Group
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This group includes anyone who could possibly access the computer and includes all users who have been defined on the computer plus all users within the domain.
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Hardware Profile
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A set of instructions telling the operating system which devices to start and drivers to load when a computer starts
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Hibernation
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A special type of Suspend where critical configuration information is written to the hard drive; upon a wake-up event,the system is reinitialized,and the data is read from the drive to return the system to the state it was in prior to Suspend.
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IrDA
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This is a type of port installed on newer computers,printers,and other devices that allows them to communicate wirelessly.These ports transmit data at about the same rate as a parallel port does,and the devices must be in close proximity and have a clear line of sight between them.
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Local group
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A group that exists only on the computer where it was created.A local group can have users and global groups as members.
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Magnifier Utility
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A windows utility used to create a seperate windows to enlarge a portion of the screen.This option is designed for users who have poor vision.
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Mandatory profile
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A user profile created by an administrator and saved with a special extension (.man)so that the user cannot modify the profile in any way.They can be assigned to a single user of a group of users.
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Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
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The standardized interface into which consoles,snap-ins,and extensions are loaded to perform administrative tasks.
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Narrator Utility
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A Windows utiltity used to read aloud on-screen text,dialog boxes,menus,and buttons.This utility requires some type of sound output device.
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On-screen Keyboard
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Microsoft accessibility program that displays a virtual keyboard on the screen and allows users with mobility impairments to type data using a pointing device.
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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 REGEDT32.The preferred method of editing,however,is the Control Panel applets.
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Registry Editor
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The utility used to edit the Windows registry.You can use REGEDIT or REGEDT32
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Roaming Profile
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A user profile stored on a centralized server that follows a user across a network.
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User profile
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A collection of user-specific settings that retain the state of the desktop,Start menu,color scheme,and other enviromental aspects across logons.
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Users group
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The users group is the most secure and is much more restrictive than the Administrators and the Power Users groups.
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