Windows 7 Step by Step- P11

Windows 7 Step by Step- P11: Experience learning made easy and quickly teach yourself the essentials of working with Windows 7. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Learn to manage windows and folders, sort and filter files, create an efficient Windows working environment, and safely access the Internet. You’ll learn how to install and manage software and hardware, create and manage homegroups, share content with other computers and computer users, and instantly locate content stored on your PC or network. You’ll also learn how to fine-tune...
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Windows 7 Step by Step- P11 Glossary 451 local printer A printer that is directly connected metadata Descriptive information, including key- to one of the ports on a computer . See also words and properties, about a file or Web page . remote printer . Title, subject, author, and size are examples of a lock To make your Windows computing session file’s metadata . unavailable to other people . Locking is most minimize To reduce a window to a button on the effective when your user account is protected taskbar . by a password . modem A device that allows computer information log off To stop your computing session without to be transmitted and received over a telephone affecting other users’ sessions . line or through a broadband service such as log on To start a computing session . cable or DSL . malware Software designed to deliberately harm mouse pointer See pointer . your computer . For example, viruses, worms, Navigation pane In Windows Explorer, the left and Trojan horses are malicious software . Also pane of a folder window . It displays favorite called malicious software . links, libraries, and an expandable list of drives map a drive To assign an available drive letter to and folders . See also Content pane, Details a specific computer or shared folder; usually pane, and Preview pane . a folder located on another computer on the .NET Passport See Windows Live ID . network . This is commonly done to create a netbook A small, lightweight portable computer constant connection to a network share but designed primarily for Web browsing and can also be used to maintain a connection to simple computing . Most netbooks have a 1 .6 an Internet location . GHz processor and a screen size of less than maximize To increase the size of a window so 11 inches . that it completely fills the screen . A maximized network In Windows, a group of computers window cannot be moved or resized by drag- connected to each other through a wired or ging its frame . wireless connection . A network may be as MB See megabyte . small as two computers connected directly Mbps Megabits per second; a unit of data transfer to each other or as large as the Internet . In equal to 1,000 Kbps (kilobits per second) . Windows Live, a group of people you com- municate and share with on Windows Live . media Materials on which data is recorded or Your network includes people you add to your stored, such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, or USB Windows Live profile, to your Windows Live flash drives . Messenger contacts, or both . People in your megabyte (MB) 1024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 network can see information about your latest bytes of data storage; often interpreted as activities in the What’s New listing, and may approximately 1 million bytes . In reference see other information, depending on permis- to data transfer rates, 1000 kilobytes . sions settings . See Also local area network . menu A list from which you can give an instruction network domain A network whose security and by clicking a command . settings are centrally administered through menu bar A toolbar from which you can access Windows Server computer and user accounts . menus of commands . network drive A shared folder or drive on your network that you assign a drive letter to so that it appears in the Computer window as a named drive .Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 452 Glossary network hub A device used to connect computers option One of a group of mutually exclusive on a network . The computers are connected to values for a setting, usually in a dialog box . the hub wi ...