Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| 1. Anti-spam programs | hardware or process that is used to combat the proliferation of spam
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| 2. Antivirus program | protective software designed to defend your computer against malicious software.
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| 3. BIOS | software that controls basic computer hardware functions.
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| 4. Cold boot.. | Starting the computer by turning power on.
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| 5. Command-line interface | a user interface to a computer's operating system or an application in which the user responds to a visual prompt by typing in a command on a specified line, receives a response back from the system, and then enters another command, and so forth.
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| 6. Compressed files/zipped | Combine several files into a single compressed folder to save storage space or to share them more easily.
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| 7. Computer virus | a program or piece of code that is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes.
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| 8. Cross platform | an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms.[
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| 9. Defragmenting | Reduce the fragmentation of (a file) by concatenating parts stored in separate locations on a disk.
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| 10. Diagnostic utility | to examine memory when Windows is not active, you may notice a reference to "Available SXMS" or "Largest Free SXMS
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| 11. Disk defragmenter | To reorganize the disk by putting files into contiguous order.
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| 12. Disk scanner | a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes
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| 13. DOS | the first widely-installed operating system for personal computers.
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