Chapter 6
Microsoft's personal assistant.
What is Cortana?
This is the work area in Paint where you arrange parts of the graphic.
What is the Canvas?
This Windows tool organizes mobile computer controls into one location.
What is the Windows Mobility Center?
This Windows tool helps you restore your system files to an earlier point in time when your system was working reliably.
What is System Restore or Restore Point?
Short-term memory that Windows and apps use to temporarily store data.
What is Random Access Memory or RAM?
Words used in a search expression on the Web.
What is a Keyword?
This graphic file format is best to use for photographs and images with fine details.
What is Joint Photographic Experts Group or JPG or JPEG?
This mobile device is smaller than a laptop and has a touchscreen and sometimes a pointing device, such as a stylus.
What is a Tablet?
A name used for a version of software distributed to users.
What is a Build?
This measurement is used to measure the speed of a computer and its processor.
What is clock speed or Megahertz (MHz) or Gigahertz (GHz)?
You can view a file's properties in this area.
What is the Details Pane?
Use this picture editing feature to remove one or more rows or columns of pixels from the edge of the picture.
What is Cropping?
When the battery charge falls below this percentage, by default, Windows turns on the Battery saver feature.
What is 20%?
Use this Windows tool to back up your personal files on a regular schedule.
What is File History?
When memory is low, Windows moves information normally stored in RAM to this to free up space in RAM.
What is the Paging File?
This search character is a symbol that stands for one or more unspecified characters in the search criterion.
What is a Wildcard?
How many graphic files can you open in Paint at the same time?
What is One at a Time?
Use this Power Plan to provide enough power for typical computing tasks while conserving energy consumption.
What is a Balanced Plan?
This action reorganizes the disk so that files are stored more efficiently.
What is Defragment?
Add this item in the Performance Monitor to track performance indicators.
What is a Counter?
These type of filters let you search for information using the words, AND, OR, and NOT to combine search criteria.
What are Boolean Filters?
This drawing feature places an image at a slant, which sometimes distorts the image.
What is Skew?
This power-saving state saves your work, puts your computer into a low-power state, and then turns off your computer.
What is Hibernation?
This happens when two devices share the same resource.
What is a Device Conflict?
This advanced startup option starts Windows using the registry settings and drives that were in use the last time the computer started successfully.
What is the Last Known Good Configuration?