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What Is An Internal Hard Drive?

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An internal hard drive is a type of hard drive located inside a computer case. It is a key component of a computer since it stores the operating system.

What Is A Bug?

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A bug is an unexpected issue in a software program that causes it to behave in an unintended way or crash.

What Is System Restore?

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System Restore is a built-in utility in Windows that allows users to restore their system to a previous state. This allows unwanted changes that...

What Is Vertical Market Software?

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Vertical market software is a type of software that is developed for a specific industry. It is a niche-market type of software.

What Is Horizontal Market Software?

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Horizontal market software is a type of software that is not developed for specific industries and is generally useful in a wide range of industries.

What Is Dual-Booting?

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Dual-booting, also known as multi-booting, is the act of installing and running multiple operating systems on a single computer.

What Is Stateful Packet Inspection?

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Stateful packet inspection (SPI) is a firewall technology used to determine which packets to allow through the firewall. It filters packets based on state and context.

What Is A Blu-Ray Disc?

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Blu-ray is an optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It is the same physical size as a CD or DVD, but offers more than...

What Is A Deprecated Feature?

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A deprecated feature is a functionality that still exists in software and may still work but is being phased out and replaced, so usage is not recommended.

What Is An In-App Purchase?

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An in-app purchase (IAP) is a purchase made within an app to buy additional content or features, or sign up for subscriptions.

What Is A Factory Reset?

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A factory reset clears all user data and settings from a device and restores it to its original state, like when it was first taken out of the box.

What Is Drag and Drop?

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Drag and drop is a functionality which allows users to select an object or a section of text (dragging) and then move it (dropping) to a new location.

What Is Optical Media?

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Optical media is a type of data storage that uses a laser to read and write data from a removable plastic disc.

What Is An Optical Drive?

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An optical drive is a disc drive that reads and writes from optical discs, such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays using a laser or visible light.

What Is Internet Surveillance?

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Internet surveillance is the act of gathering, monitoring, and logging information from online activity by a third party, such as an ISP, social media site, search engine, the government, or hackers.

What Is The Client-Server Model?

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The client-server model is a model of interaction between a server and a client. The client requests a service or resource from another program, known as the server.

What Is A CD-ROM?

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A CD-ROM is a CD used as a read-only optical memory device. This type of CD can be read, but not written to by a computer with an optical drive.

What Is Wiretapping?

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Wiretapping is the practice of attaching a listening device to a telephone line to secretly listen to conversations.

What Is A Text Editor?

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A text editor is a program that allows users to open, edit, and view plain text files. Text editors are usually included as built-in programs.

What Is Image Scaling?

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Image scaling is the process of resizing a digital image, either by making it smaller (scaling down) or making it larger (scaling up).

What Is A Floppy Disk?

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A floppy disk is a type of disk storage device capable of holding electronic data. They are made out of plastic or metal and can hold 100 KB to 1.44 MB of data.

What Is A Primary Storage Device?

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Primary storage is a type of data storage that is directly accessible by the CPU. It is smaller in size than secondary storage and is a key component of a computer for it to function.

What Is A Secondary Storage Device?

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Secondary storage, also known as auxiliary storage, refers to non-volatile storage and long-term storage devices that are not always directly accessible by a computer.

What Is Storage Capacity?

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Storage capacity refers to the amount of data a storage device can hold. It is precisely measured in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes.

What Is A Markup Language?

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A markup language is a text-encoding system used to define the structure and formatting of a document.

What Is A Virtual Machine?

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A virtual machine (VM) is an emulated computer system created using software on a physical computer often used for testing purposes and backing up data.

What Is A Software Wizard?

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A software wizard is a user interface that automates complex tasks by asking the user a series of simple questions.

What Is 5G?

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5G is the fifth-generation cellular data standard. It is the successor to 4G and enables a new type of network that is designed to connect most mobile phones.