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Formerly known as Winternals and initially released in 1996, Windows Sysinternals is now a product from Microsoft after it acquired Winternals Software on July 18, 2006. Today, Windows Sysinternals includes a suite of Windows utilities that can be downloaded as a collection or individually for free from Microsoft. List of Windows Sysinternals utilities Sysinternals Suite - The entire set of Sysinternals utilities rolled up into a single download. AccessChk - Command-line tool for viewing the effective permissions on files, registry keys, services, processes, kernel objects, and more....

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Clip art is art or an image that’s made by various artists to fit numerous different categories such as people, animals, school, etc. to be inserted into a document. For example, Microsoft Word comes included with several hundred different clip art pictures that can be easy inserted into a Microsoft Word document. CDs and DVDs are available for purchase which contain thousands of unique clip art files for use in your projects....

Contiguous may refer to any of the following: In general, contiguous refers to an object that is adjacent to another object. When referring to a computer hard drive, contiguous or continuous refers to sectors on a disk that are by each other. When information is written to a disk if there is enough space the information is written contiguous. However, if there is not enough available sectors the data is written to multiple places on a disk causing it to be fragmented....

FRAM may refer to any of the following: Short for Ferroelectric RAM, FRAM is a random-access storage that uses a special magnetic film. Similar to other computer memory, like DRAM, FRAM can read and write data at faster speeds, but what makes it unique is its ability to retain that data when power is turned off, like ROM. A slang term that combines the words friend and spam, FRAM describes unwanted e-mail sent to a user by their friends, family, or acquaintances....

Alternatively called free software, freeware is software that is made available 100% free as long as it remains unmodified. The complete opposite of freeware is commercial software. Unlike open-source software, freeware cannot be modified and is often only licensed to be used by non-commercial users. Computer portmanteaus, Donationware, F2P, Foistware, Freemium, Public domain software, Software, Software terms, Ware Related information Top 10 free PC programs everyone should have. Where can I get a free word processor?...

Constructed in July 2004, Googleplex is the name of the main headquarters of Alphabet Inc, which is the parent company of Google. Its name comes from the mathematical term, googolplex, while also being a combination of the company’s name, and the word “complex.” Googleplex is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, in Mountain View, California. Business terms, Computer companies, Silicon Valley

Greeking is a method of displaying small text by software programs. Because some text is too small to display on monitors, they are displayed as fake characters or gray lines. You may see Greeking in a computer game that shows text in a book as small lines or text, or in a print preview. The picture is an example of Greeking that helps show the overall layout of the page, but for the most part cannot be read....

On a web page, an HTML font or web font is the type of text displayed, designated using CSS. In the past, aspects of the font could be changed using attribute and value pairs in the tag. However, in this tag was deprecated in HTML 4.1, and will soon be obsolete. The following sections contain examples of both methods, and information on how to get more web fonts. HTML fonts in CSS For HTML5 and website design in general, we recommend CSS be used to specify the font....

Alternatively called I/O (pronounced as eye-o), input/output is any software or hardware device designed to send and receive data to and from a computer hardware component. For example, a NIC (network interface card) is an I/O device because it sends and receives information from other network devices and computers. However, a computer mouse is only an input device, because it can send data but cannot receive any data back. A computer monitor is an output device because it can display information (output) but cannot send data back to the computer....

Short for Java archive, a JAR file is a collection of multiple files as one single file. JAR files are an easy way to distribute Java applications, much like compressing a file into a zip file is an easy way to distribute other programs over the Internet. To start a JAR file, type the following command. java -jar example.jar To explode or extract the JAR file, type the following command....

Function found with most computers or software programs that repeats a key when it is held down for 2 seconds then released. Keyboard repeat is commonly used to create a line by pressing the dash or underscore, as shown below. In the above example, we pressed the underscore key to draw a line. With keyboard repeat rate increased, this can be done even faster. With newer word processor programs a user can also type three of the same dash, underscore, or equal sign and once enter is pressed a divider line is drawn....

Created in 2004, and initially known as XBMC (Xbox Media Center), Kodi is a free home theater application for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, tvOS, and Xbox One. The application allows users to browse through and view or play movies, music, television series, photos, videos, and other entertainment media stored on the device. The interface is highly customizable, and it has various options for sorting through and playing entertainment media in many file formats....

The GNU Lesser General Public License, also known as the LGPL, is a more permissive version of the GPL (the GNU General Public License). It’s a software license published by the Free Software Foundation. If open-source software is licensed under the LGPL, other software developers may use it for their software development projects — even if their projects are closed-source or otherwise proprietary or commercial in nature. The LGPL was developed as a compromise between the stricter copyleft terms of the GPL and the more permissive BSD and MIT licenses....

A software program that is operated using file menus instead of using commands. Below is an example of how a user may quit a menu-driven program, instead of a non menu-driven program. Menu-driven Within an open program, the user clicks the “File” option from the drop-down menu bar and selects “Quit.” Non menu-driven User presses the “!” key and then presses the “q” key to quit the program. A menu-driven environment, like most programs in Microsoft Windows, is easier for users as it is a graphical environment that allows the use of a mouse....

Opera is an Internet browser developed by Opera Software and was first released on April 1, 1995. Designed for desktops and mobile platforms, including a popular choice for mobile phones. Opera claims to be the fastest browser on earth and has a free e-mail client known as Opera Mail. The picture shows Opera 9.6 web browser with the Computer Hope website. Popular Opera features are its speed, tabbed browsing, pop-up control, and voice control....

PK may refer to any of the following: Short for jumperpark, PK is a disk drive setting that’s similar to the more common secondary setting found on most drives. When a drive is set to this setting, it’s configured as the secondary drive. Alternatively known as a pker, pk, or pking, player killing is an online game (e.g., MMORPG) act where a player kills another real player. When playing on a PvP server, this type of killing is normal....

Initially released on December 12, 2004, PSP (PlayStation Portable) is a brand of portable, handheld video game consoles sold by Sony. PSP devices are composed of a small LED screen with controls on both sides. The button layout closely resembles a DualShock controller, which is sold with other PlayStation consoles. Physical games for the PSP were sold in a proprietary format called UMD (Universal Media Disc). They could also be purchased digitally through the PlayStation Store....

The terms runs on or runs under describes the compatibility of certain software or hardware with other devices or hardware. For example, a product may be labeled with “Runs on Intel Pentium computers,” which indicates the product is designed to run on IBM-compatible computers that have an Intel Pentium processor. Compatibility, Hardware terms, Software terms, System requirements Related information How to determine the amount of memory a program requires. How to find hardware and other computer specifications....

Stutter is when a computer’s video or sound continuously or randomly hesitates, causing the video or sound to “skip” like a record player. Freeze, Sound terms, Video terms Related information When watching videos fullscreen my computer stutters. Sound card help and support. Video card help and support.