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1. A 20- or 24- pin connector that supplies power from a PC's power supply to the motherboard.






2. Aka nickel-cadmium.






3. Aka error-correcting code.






4. The hardware address of a network device - also called the Ethernet address (on Ethernet devices) or NIC address.






5. Aka complementary metal-oxide semiconductor.






6. An option available in the Windows XP Backup program for recovering from damage that prevents the operating system from starting. It replaced the Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) process in Windows 2000.






7. The high-definition optical disc formatting standard - promoted by Toshiba - that was defeated by the Blu-ray Disc standard as the widely accepted high-definition standard.






8. The BIOS configuration settings - also called system settings - accessed via a special BIOS-based menu during system startup.






9. Aka automated system recovery.






10. A set of behaviors for the workplace that includes how you interact with people and how you treat property.






11. Aka Fast Ethernet.






12. A computer that is not connected to a network of any kind.






13. A laptop is a small - easily transported computer - generally weighing less than 7 pounds and with roughly the same dimensions as a 1- to 2-inch-thick stack of magazines. Laptops computers have an all-in-one layout in which the keyboard - and often t






14. A network connection device that routes IP packets between networks.






15. A setting on an LCD display that adjusts the viewable area of the display horizontally.






16. The use of more than one monitor on a single computer.






17. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows normally - except that the video mode is changed to the lowest resolution - using the currently installed video driver. This option does not switch to the basic Wind






18. A 36-pin connector mounted to a device's parallel interface.






19. Aka MSCONFIG.






20. Specialized hardware used to create and manage a RAID array.






21. A menu that opens from the Start button on the taskbar.






22. One or more chips designed to work closely with the CPU. Two parts of this chipset are the Northbridge and the Southbridge.






23. An identifier assigned to a process when it starts.






24. Electrically erasable programmable ROM. A ROM chip that is erasable using an electrical charge.






25. A partition type on a basic disk that can have only one logical drive assigned to it encompassing the entire partition. This partition type is also the only type of partition on a basic disk that can be marked as active for booting up an operating sy






26. Aka dynamic RAM.






27. A type of arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that is used to perform specialized functions - such as division and large decimal number operations. Also called a math coprocessor.






28. Aka motherboard.






29. A double-sided - single-layer digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 9.4 GB of data - or over four hours of video.






30. Aka double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM.






31. Operating system interface settings - such as the language used and the date - time - and currency formats.






32. A technology developed in the 1980s for storing data. Variations of this format are in use today.






33. The worldwide interconnection of networks that can be accessed with various Internet-based software. The World Wide Web is one of the many services of the Internet.






34. A power-usage level.






35. A partition type that can exist on a basic disk and have one or more logical drive letters assigned to it. A Windows operating system cannot boot from an extended partition.






36. A device used with a laptop. The port replicator remains on the desktop with external devices connected to ports on it. A laptop then needs only one connection to the port replicator to have access to the peripherals.






37. Aka random access memory.






38. In telecommunications - a technique that combines multiple messages or signals onto a single transmission channel.






39. 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






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






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






42. Aka thermal compound.






43. Aka security auditing.






44. A method used by several software manufacturers to combat software piracy. The formal name for Microsoft's activation is Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).






45. A drive that can write either to CD-R discs or to specially designed CD-RW discs. In the case of the CD-RW discs - the drive can write more than once to the same portion of disc - overwriting old data.






46. A protocol used to resolve an IP address to a MAC address.






47. A RAM module designed for subcompact and laptop computers. It is half the size of a SoDIMM module.






48. The chunks into which the TCP protocol packages data. In addition to the data - each datagram contains information - stored in a header - which is used by the TCP protocol on the receiving end to reassemble the chunks of data into the original messag






49. AMD manufactures CPUs and other products - and its chief rival is Intel Corporation.






50. In Windows - an Advanced Options menu choice that starts Windows without several drivers and components and loads only very basic - non-vendor-specific drivers for mouse - video - keyboard - mass storage - and system services. It also displays in low