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| The naming restrictions present in a DOS environment that restricts a filename to a "max of 8" characters and a max of "3 characters" for the file extension. |
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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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| MS-DOS command used to view and configure attributes on files and folders at the command prompt. |
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| A text file used during the boot process of windows 2000/XP that provides a listing of all OS's currently installed on the system and available for NTLDR. |
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| A text-mode input environment for entering commands. Launched using either CMD.exe in NT and above or command.exe in all versions of windows. |
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| A utility that allows technicians to examine and configure all the hardware and drivers installed on the machine. |
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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 to installed drives. |
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| The GUI interface utility in Windows 2000/XP for managing hard drives. You can create partitions, format drives, and other administrative duties to installed drives. |
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| End User License Agreement (EULA) |
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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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| The three letters that follow a filename and indicates what type of file it is. |
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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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| A name assigned to a file when the file is first written on a disk. Since Windows 95 you may use up to 32 characters for filenames and filenames can contain any character (including spaces)except \/:*?"><|. |
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| GUI Graphical User interface |
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| An interface is the method by which a computer and a user interact. |
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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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| 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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| The collection of articles on every conceivable Microsoft software ever released, including issues regarding installation, troubleshooting and compatibility problems. |
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| A volume that has been created that points to an empty folder on another drive rather then being assigned drive letters. |
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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 function to BOOT.INI |
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| A set of access restrictions available on hard drives formatted with the NTFS file system. |
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| A major Windows NT/200/xp boot file launched by the MBR or MFT. This file reads the BOOT.INI configuration file for any installed operating systems. |
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| The route the operating system must folow to find an executable program stored in a sub directory. |
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| A section of the TAsk Bar that can be used to launch commonly used programs with a single click. |
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| A complex bianary file used to store configuration data about a particular system. Use control panel or REGEDIT to edit. |
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| Called a paging file in Windows 2000/xp, this is the name for the large 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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| Located by default at the bottom of the desktop, the ________ contains the Start button, the System Tray, the Quick Launch bar and buttons for running applications. |
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