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| Windows feature used to support users with limited sight, hearing, or mobility. It includes special keyboard, sound, display, and mouse configuration. |
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| A centralized database that contains information about a networks users, workstations, servers, printers, and other resources. This is essential to maintaining, organizing, and securing the resources on a larger network, because it allows network administrators to centrally manage resources. It is also extensible, meaning it can be configured to grow and to be personalized for any company. |
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| A user account, created when the OS is first installed, that is allowed complete, unfettered access to the system without restriction. |
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| This group in the least restrictive group available. They have full control of the computer, the files and folders on it, the local area network, and the configured user accounts. |
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| This group can back up and restore files on the computer, regardless of permissions on those files. |
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| Predefined, default local group created on a Windows XP machine. |
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| The account that created or "owns" an object, usually a user account. |
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| Software that is used to allow a computer and a piece of hardware to communicate. Device drivers that are incompatible, corrupt, outdated, or of the wrong version for the hardware can cause errors that are difficult to diagnose. |
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| A utility that allows technicians to examine and configure all the hardware and drivers installed on a machine. |
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| A digital signature that Microsoft incorporates into driver and system files as a way to verify the files and to ensure that they are not inappropriately overwritten. Ensures that installed drivers will not destabilize the operating system. |
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| This group includes anyone who could possibly access the computer and includes all users who have been defined on the computer plus all users within the network. |
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| A set of instructions telling the operating system which devices to start and drivers to load when a computer starts. |
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| A special type of Suspend where critical configuration information is written to the hard drive; upon a wake-up event, the system is reinitialized, and the data is read from the drive to return the system to the state it was in prior to Suspend. |
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| This is a type of port installed on newer computers, printers, and other devices that allows them to communicate wirelessly. These ports transmit at about the same rate as a parallel port does, and the devices must be in close proximity and have a clear line on sight between them. |
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| A group that exist only on the computer where it was created. A local group can have users and global groups as members . |
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| A Windows utility used to create a separate windows to enlarge a portion of the screen. This option is designed for users who have poor vision. |
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| A user profile created by an administrator and saved with a special extension (.man) so that the user cannot modify the profile in any way. They can be assigned to a single user of a group of users. |
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| Microsoft Management Console (MMC) |
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| The standardized interface into which consoles, snap-ins, and extensions are loaded to perform administrative tasks. |
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| A Windows utility used to read aloud on-screen text, dialog boxes, menus, and buttons. This utility requires some type of sound output device. |
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| Microsoft accessibility program that displays a virtual keyboard on the screen and allows users with mobility impairments to type date using a pointing device. |
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| A complex binary file used to store configuration data about a particular system. To edit this text-based database, a user can use the run line utility REGEDIT or REGEDT32. The preferred method of editing, however, is the Control Panel applets. |
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| The utility used to edit the Windows registry. You can use REGEDIT or REGEDT32. |
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| A user profile stored on a centralized server that follows a user across a network. |
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| A collection of user-specific settings that retain the state of the desktop, Start menu, color scheme, and other environmental aspects across logons. |
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| The users group is the most secure group and is much more restrictive than the Administrators and the Power Users groups. |
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