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Windows Preinstallation Environment – Introduction

Windows Preinstallation Environment (aka Windows PE, WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2 that is used for the deployment of workstations and servers. It is intended as a 32-bit or 64-bit replacement for MS-DOS during the installation phase of Windows, and can [...]

IExpress – About the tool

IExpress is a tool provided by Microsoft in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It was also bundled with installations of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000. It can be useful for distributing multiple files to Windows end-users. It makes a self-extracting DPInst installation package or a compressed CAB file. All self-extracting files creating [...]

Multi-touch – Software

Many recent operating systems support multitouch, including Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Ubuntu (since version 7.10), Samsung’s Bada, Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS, Symbian ^3 OS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS 6.0, Xandros and Neprash Technology’s N-Touch Platform. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Multi-touch, under [...]

Intel GMA – Software support

Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.4 supports the GMA 950, since it was used in previous revisions of the MacBook and 17-inch iMacs. It has been used in all Intel-based Mac minis (until the Mac Mini released on March 3, 2009). Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard contains drivers for the GMA X3100, which were [...]

NTBackup – Introduction

NTBackup is the built-in backup application introduced in Windows NT around 1997 and part of all subsequent versions up to and including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It uses a proprietary backup format (BKF) (also known as “Microsoft Tape Format” or MTF) to back up files. Files can be backed up to [...]

Windows NT – Introduction

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT [...]

Media Transfer Protocol – Windows MTP support

On Microsoft Windows, MTP is supported in Microsoft Windows XP if Windows Media Player 10 or later versions are installed. Windows Vista has MTP built-in. Most MTP-compatible devices do not appear through drive letter assignment in Windows Explorer, instead they will appear as “devices” in Windows Explorer. Additionally, on Windows, MTP-compatible devices support a feature [...]

Remote administration – Popular software

Windows Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC Editions, and Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions come with Microsoft’s Microsoft Management Console, Windows Registry Editor and various command-line utilities that may be used to administrate a remote machine. One form of remote administration is remote desktop software, and Windows [...]

Internet Explorer 8 – Introduction

Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated as IE8) is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available. It is the successor to [...]

Symbolic link – Introduction

symbolic link (also ”symlink” or ”soft link”) is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution. Symbolic links were already present by 1978 in mini-computer operating systems from DEC and Data General’s RDOS. Today they [...]

System Restore – Introduction

System Restore is a component of Microsoft’s Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems that allows for the rolling back of system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a previous state in the event of system malfunction or failure. The Windows Server operating system family does not include System Restore. [...]

O&O Defrag – Introduction

O&O Defrag is a Windows defragmentation utility sold by German software developer O&O Software. It has won several awards by PC journals and magazines, and is certified by Microsoft for all its current NTFS-based operating systems, including Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and 7. It is the leading European seller of defragmentation products. Adapted from [...]

Pcap – WinPcap

WinPcap consists of: * x86 and x64 drivers for the Windows NT family (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc.), which use NDIS to read packets directly from a network adapter; * implementations of a lower-level library for the listed operating systems, to communicate with those drivers; [...]

Multi-monitor – Display modes

Clone mode Since before personal computers existed, video signals have been spilt with simple Y-adapters to provide duplicate signals to multiple monitors for various reasons. When personal computers came to have video outputs, this naturally carried over—sometimes for the purpose of presentation, and sometimes to provide a different representation of the same output (for example [...]









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