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See PC bus.

ZIF (zero insertion force) socket Socket for CPUs that enables insertion of a chip without the need to apply pressure. Intel promoted this socket with its overdrive upgrades. The chip drops effortlessly into the socket’s holes, and a small lever locks it in.

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Numerals

0 (off), in binary system

1 (on), in binary system

1/8-inch jack

1/8-inch connector

10/100/1000BaseT networks

1000BaseSX standard

10GBaseSR standard

10xBaseT

15-pin DB port

16:9 aspect ratio

16:10 aspect ratio

16-bit parallel PC Cards

2.1 speaker systems

32-bit processing

34-pin ribbon cable, for floppy drives

36-pin Centronics connectors, for parallel printers

3-D games

FPSs (first-person shooters)

video cards for

3-D graphics

3-D video cards

3DMIDI Player

3Dsound, RightMark

3G networks

4:3 aspect ratio

40-pin ribbon cable

5.1 speaker systems

50-pin high density (HD) connectors

6.1 speaker systems

62.5/125 multimode fiber optic cable

64-bit microprocessors

64-bit Windows

transitioning to

Windows Vista

Windows XP

68-pin high density (HD) connectors

68-pin ribbon cable, for SCSI drives

7.1 speaker systems

7-Zip tool

802.11 wireless standards. See Wi-Fi

802.15 wireless standard

8086 processor

8088 processor

RAM organization

clock speed

A

A (amperes)

A connector, USB

A/V sync

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)

ABBYY FineReader scanner

AC (alternating current)

in computing process (game example)

supply for

acceleration

mouse

sound processing

access control

access control lists (ACLs)

ACK (acknowledgment)

ACLs (access control lists)

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)

ACR (Advanced Communication Riser)

Action Center (Windows 7)

Activate Windows utility (Windows XP, Windows Vista)

activation, Windows XP

Active Directory (AD)

active matrix, LCD technology

active partition

Active PFC (active power factor correction)

Activesync, Windows XP

ActiveX

activity light

actuator arm technologies, hard drives

AD (Active Directory)

ad hoc mode

infrared technology

Wi-Fi configuration

adaptability, as trait of PC technician

adapters, power supplies

Ad-Aware (Lavasoft)

Add Hardware Wizard

device drivers, installing

devices, adding

NIC installation

Add or Remove Programs applet (Windows XP)

components, adding/removing

software, adding/removing

Add/Remove Programs applet (Windows 2000) components, adding/removing

old drivers, removing

software, adding/removing

Add/Remove Snap-ins

address bus

address space, of RAM

administrative access, as security threat

Administrative Shares

Administrative Tools

server versions

workstation versions

administrator

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Administrators group

Windows 2000

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Adobe Flash, TrueMotion VP6

ADSL (asynchronous DSL)

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)

Advanced BIOS Features, CMOS settings

Advanced Chipset Features, CMOS settings

Advanced Communication Riser (ACR)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)

Advanced Micro Devices. See AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

Advanced Power Management (APM)

advanced settings, video cards

Advanced Startup Options

Advanced Streaming Format (ASF)

Advanced Streaming Redirector (ASX)

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. See ATAPI

adware

Aero desktop

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

AGP (accelerated graphics port)

PCI compared with

sidebanding

strobing

video cards

AGP aperture

AGP slot

AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface)

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)

air flow, maintaining in computer cases

All Programs menu, Windows XP

allocation units. See also clusters

alternating current. See AC (alternating current)

ALU (arithmetic logic unit)

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

AMD processors

AMD Sempron

Athlon

Athlon/Athlon Classic

Athlon Thunderbird

Athlon XP

chipsets

dual cores

Duron

K6 series processors

numbering schemes

Opteron

Pentium equivalents

Phenom/AMD Phenom

American Megatrends (AMI)

American National Standards

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