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In volatile memory, the information is not stored when the power goes off.

The CMOS looks to registry settings to find out which secondary device should have the OS.

The processor uses temporary storage called primary storage to temporarily hold both data and instructions while it’s processing them

When an OS is first executed, the initial screen that appears, together with its menus, commands, and icons, is called the desktop

When you refer to a drive and its directories that are points to the location of a file, as in C:\wp\data\myfile.txt, the drive and directories are called the path to the file

The device manager gives a graphical view of the hardware devices configured under windows and the resources and drivers they use for various devices.

ATX is the most popular mother board used in today’s market

A heat sink is a clip on device that mounts on top of the processor: fingers or fins at its base pull up the heat away from the processor or a combination of heat sink and cooler

The form factor determines the size of the board and its features that make it compatible with power supplies, cases, and expansion cars

SIMMS and DIMMs and RIMMs are measured in MHz

Parallel ATA is also called the IDE standard

Firewire and I-link are common names for the peripheral bus officially named IEEE 1394

A spanned volume appears as a simple volume but can use space from two or more physical disks

Disk management is a graphical user-friendly utility that you can use to create partitions and format logical drives

Ethernet is the most popular network architecture used today

A URL is an address for a web page or other resource on the internet

A strong password should not contain consecutive letters or numbers

Hardware profiles let you specify which devices are to be loaded on startup for a particular user whether they are at home or in the office

To use a shared printer on a remote PC, client for Microsoft office must be installed

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