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1. A paid television subscription service offered by cable television providers.






2. Aka uninterruptible power supply.






3. A power supply that detects the incoming voltage and switches to accept either 120 or 240 VAC.






4. A card that fits into the PC Card interface - including both PC Card and CardBus cards. This type measures 85.6 millimeters long by 54 millimeters wide and 3.3 millimeters thick.






5. Aka thumb drive.






6. Aka Media Access Control (MAC) address.






7. A file attribute that is given to a file to indicate it should not be visible in Windows Explorer unless View settings override the attribute and allow the file to be shown.






8. A way to monitor security-related events.






9. A key on a laptop that is combined with the FN key to toggle the laptop's speaker on and off. The SPEAKER ON/OFF key is usually one of the standard function keys - such as F3 - that displays a speaker symbol.






10. Cable that consists of pairs of wires twisted around each other. The twists help to boost each wire's signals and make them less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (EMI).






11. Aka Serial Attached SCSI.






12. Aka continuity RIMM.






13. The medium for a laser printer - which is normally packaged within a toner cartridge.






14. A command-line utility installed on a Windows computer with the TCP/IP protocol suite; it's used to view the IP configuration of a network connection and to perform certain administrative tasks.






15. Programmable ROM. A ROM chip that can have programs added to it.






16. A server that manages DNS names.






17. A method for allocating disk space on hard disks in which configuration information for each dynamic disk is located on the disk space beyond the first physical sector. This configuration information is stored outside of any volume on the hard disk.






18. In the Windows GUI - a horizontal bar normally positioned across the bottom of the desktop containing a Start button - the Quick Launch toolbar - buttons for running programs - and at the far right - the notification area. Sometimes called the Start






19. A set of standards for imaging devices - such as scanners and cameras - that is used in drivers and other software for these devices.






20. Aka secure socket layer.






21. Data storage technology with no moving mechanical parts that uses large-capacity - nonvolatile memory - commonly calledflash memory or solid-state drives.






22. Aka second-level domain.






23. A Windows display setting that allows you to adjust the number of colors - or color depth - used by the display.






24. A password that locks your hard drive and is often stored in a TPM chip.






25. A wireless network standard that defines speeds of up to 600 Mbps. It is downward-compatible with 802.11a - 802.11b - and 802.11g.






26. Aka Microsoft Management Console.






27. A DVI mode that supports both analog and digital video signals.






28. Aka Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).






29. A mark on a building created by a war driver to specify where a hotspot exists. People "in the know" look for these marks to identify hotspots for their use.






30. A CPU technology that allows two threads to execute at the same time within a single execution core. This technology is considered to be partially parallel execution. Intel introduced it in the Pentium 4 Xeon CPU. Also known as simultaneous multithre






31. The proportion between an image's width and height. Traditional CRT monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3. Widescreen displays have an aspect ratio of 16:9.






32. A very old expansion bus standard - seen in the early IBM PC.






33. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that will start Windows without the Windows GUI (EXPLORER.EXE) and with only a simple Command Prompt window from which you can launch Windows administrative utilities.






34. A Windows folder that contains numerous applets you can use to adjust the configuration of many different aspects of the OS.






35. A computer display that uses liquid crystal or plasma technology and does not require the bulk of a large picture tube. The screen enclosure can be as thin as one to two inches.






36. Used to represent the luminance signal in S-Video.






37. Aka High-Definition Multimedia Interface.






38. A version of the FAT file system used by MS-DOS for hard drives - using a 16-bit file allocation table.






39. A protocol that transfers e-mail messages between mail servers. Clients also use this protocol to send e-mail to mail servers.






40. An obsolete video standard introduced with IBM PS/2 computers in the late 1980s. VGA had a maximum resolution of 720






41. A program file or some special data file that is part of the operating system and is very important to proper operation of the OS.






42. An area of the Windows taskbar used by programs and some hardware devices to display status icons. Also called thenotification area or system tray.






43. Aka PCIe.






44. Aka pointing stick.






45. Aka Windows Internet Naming Service.






46. Aka external cache.






47. A type of printer that uses heat in the image transfer process.






48. Aka adapter card.






49. Digital versatile disc (DVD) discs that can be written to - but data cannot be overwritten. This standard is newer than DVD-R. This term also refers to the drives that can write to these discs.






50. The cartridge for a laser printer that contains both the medium (toner) and other printing components.







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