Vocabulary 15
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- smss.exe
- a program responsible for handling sessions on your computer
- ntdetect.com
- 16-bit real mode program that queries the computer for basic device and configuration informations
- boot.ini
- file that conrain startup option for different versions of windows
- ERD
- emergency repair disk
- registry
- hierachal database containing binary files that hold system configuration information
- NTLDR
- program that displays windows startup menue
- winlogon.exe
- the window logon manager, responsible for handling user logon and logoff
- system variables
- contain the information about the location of the operating system files
- LSASS.exe
- a program that handles the local security and login policies. It authenticates users for the Winlogon services
- peer-to-peer network
- serveral client computers connected by a physical network media wuth no centralized security management
- regedt32
- registry editing tool
- system registry hive
- a registry hive that controls the drivers and services loaded durinf startup for windows
- ntbootdd.sys
- a copy of a storage controller device driver. If either the boot or system driver is SCSI, NTLDR finds this file and uses it instead of IDE or SATA startup code.
- client server network
- client and server computers connected together by a physical network media with centralized security management
- set command
- allows users ti modify the environment variables from commanding prompt
- automated system recovery
- used to create a backup of your system partition to recover from failure
- task manager
- window GUI utility that proves information of processes that are running on your computer
- event viewer
- windown gui untility that enables you to monitor events that occur on your system
- registry keys
- divisions in the registry heirarchal structure
- environment variables
- setting that tell applicantion where ti find and put files
- temporary files
- files that can be used by applications while they are open in the memory. Temporary files should be autmatically deleted when the application is finished with them but sometimes remain
- pagefile.sys
- a file that contains memory data that window can not fit into physical RAM, by default thisfile is 1.5 x the size of the physical RAM
- user variables
- tell the aaplications where to put the files based on the currently logged on user
- system restore
- create snapeshots of your computer configuration for rollback to a working version of windows
- Dr.Watson
- a diagnostic utility that you can use to log errors with windows and applications
- bootsect.dos
- file that conrains information about the boot sector of an operating system older than Windows NT
- hall.dll
- an interface between a computer hardware and software
- registry values
- define specific windows setting within the registry keys
- Msinfo32
- command opens windows system information dialog box
- lan
- local area network
- nos
- network operating system
- ntoskrnl.exe
- program that contains the majority of the operating system instructions for window.
- recovery console
- allows access to fat, fat32, and ntfs volume for repair