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| Electrostatic Discharge-Can damage or destroy hardware |
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| What is the ideal humidity range for a room containing computer equipment? |
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| Between 50 and 80 percent |
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| Electromagnetic Interference-Usually causes temporary problems and is more dangerous to data than hardware |
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| What may happen to a computer when power to it sags below the 115 V U.S. Standard? |
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| The computer may reboot or power off |
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| What is a UPS? What does it do? |
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| Uninterruptible power supply protects from power fluctuations,brownouts, and blackouts |
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| What is an OS? What is it's purpose? |
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| Operating System is to controll all of the interactions among the various system components. |
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| User Interface is both the visual portion of the operating system and software components that allow the user to interact with the OS for starting programs |
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| A Graphical User Interface that takes advantage of a computer's graphics capabilities t make it easier for the user to interact with the OS by manipulationg graphic objects on a desktop to accomplsh a multitude of tasks |
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| Designed for home users, it lacked many features included in the professional edition |
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| For business or power users, this edition included the ability to join a windows server domain, and ability to be operated by another windowns XP user remotely |
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| An OEM edition preinstalled on computer with media center apabilities not sold separately |
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| The first 64-bit version of Windows, it only ran on systems with the Intel Itanium CPU. They released an updated edition in 2003, but DCed it in 2005 due to lack of new itanium based computers |
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| Designed for home users with a limited budget, it lacked many features includd in windows home premium such as as the windows Aero screen effects, but it was the first version of windows to include ready boost which allows you to use flash memory devices as additional cache memory to improve system performance. |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
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| Includes all the features in Windows VIsta Home Basic, with the addition of more advanced multimedia support of Windows XP Media Center, including HDTV,DVD authoring, and much more. Lacks features used in a microsoft windows server domain |
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| For business or power users, this edition includes all of the features of Home Basic, except Parental controls, and it is missing one basic desktop theme. Also able to be operated remotely and also has the system restore function which works with Shadow Copy the ability to track and maintain backup copies of versions of user data files |
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| Includes all of the features of the Business edition, but with more features targeted to large enterprises. Only available through Microsoft Software Assurance(SA), a software purchasing, volume licensing, and support plan, mainly for large organizations |
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| Combines features of both Home Premium and Enterprise editions, as well as ultimate extras which are free through windows updates. Includes DreamScene for using video as a desktop background, tools for use with Bitlocker and Encrypting File System (EFS) |
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| Available as a 32 Bit OEM version only. Preinstalled on low-end computers, such as a netbook, which is minimally configured computer in the ultra-portable category designed for connecting to the internet and little else. The least capable of all the editions. It does not include the ability to watch, or record live TV on your PC, and you cannot change the desktop backgrounds or themes. |
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| Targeted to the home market, this edition includes windows media center, windows aero, and multi-touch support on the compatible touch screen devices |
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| Designed for power users and small-business users, this edition includes all the features of Home premium, with additional networking and security features, such as the ability to join a microsoft Windows Server domain, support for encrypting files system, and Windows XP mode for running old applications in a virtual machine runnings Windows XP |
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| Similar to the Ultimate edition, but with more feautres targeted to large enterprises. Only available through Microsoft Software Assurance(SA), a software purchasing, volume licensing, and support plan, mainly for large organizations |
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| Combines the multimedia features of Home Premium with seurity,networking,and compatibility features of Professional editions, including Windows XP Mode for running Old applications in a virtual machine running Windows XP Mode for running old applications in a virtual machine running Windows XP. It also includes the data entryption features of Bitlocker Drive Encryption and Bitlocker To Go and support for 35 languages |
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| A service pack is a bundle of patches or updates released periodically by a software publisher windows service packs are majoyr milestones in the life of a Windows version. |
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| System Req's for Windows XP Pro |
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CPU-Intel or AMD 233Mhz
RAM-64MB
Storage-1,5GB
Video Adapter-Super VGA (800x600) |
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| System Req's for Windows Vista Home/Prem/Ulti |
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CPU-800Mhz
RAM-512MB
Storage-15GB
Video Adapter-Support for Super VGA graphics |
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CPU-1 Ghz(32bit or 64bit)
Ram-1GB(32bit) 2gb(64bit)
Storage-16GB(32Bit) 20gb(64bit)
Video Adapter-Direct X 9 adapter with WDDM 1.0 or higher device driver
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| Difference between 32 bit and 64 bit |
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| Is the address space used by both system RAM and other RAM and ROM. A 64-bit Windows OS uses a great deal more address space than the 4GB of 32Bit Windows, with the actual maximum varying among the versions and editions, but ranging from 8GB to 192GB |
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| User account control is a security feature introduced in Windows Vista to prevent unauthorized changes to windows. It has been modified and improved on in later versions of Windows |
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| Bitlocker Drive encryption |
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encryption is a drive encryption technology intoduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions and continues to be improved in new versions of Windows, although only available in certain editions.
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| is an antispyware program, built into Windows since Windows 7, and a free download for Windows XP and Windows Vista |
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| Is MIrosoft's free personal firewall, which is software that guards against unauthorized network access to a single computer First available in Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, it has been built into Windows sine then |
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| Is the Windows Vista page of the control panel that presents security status and gives access to the Window's Security tools. |
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| Also reffered to as the mainboard, the system board, or the planar board, is made of fiberglass. Is the brain of the computer |
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| Single Inline Memory Module-RAm Chip |
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| Dual Inline Memory Module-Ram Chip |
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| Rambus Inline Memory Module |
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