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  2. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    When a user is logging on to Windows, the startup sound is played, the shell (usually EXPLORER.EXE) is loaded from the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file, and startup items are loaded. In all versions of Windows 9x except ME, it is also possible to load Windows by booting to a DOS prompt and typing "win".

  3. Error message - Wikipedia

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    On Windows, notification icons appear in the System Tray. On Mac OS X, notification icons may appear in the menu bar, or may take the form of an application's icon "bouncing" in the Dock. The GNOME user interface for Unix systems can display notification icons in a panel.

  4. Service Control Manager - Wikipedia

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    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceGroupOrder\List, containing the names and order of service groups. Each service's registry key contains an optional Group value which governs the order of initialization of a respective service or a device driver, with respect to other service groups.

  5. Troubleshooting - Wikipedia

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    Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system. It is a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again. Troubleshooting is needed to identify the symptoms.

  6. Out-of-order execution - Wikipedia

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    The first machine to use out-of-order execution was the CDC 6600 (1964), designed by James E. Thornton, which uses a scoreboard to avoid conflicts. It permits an instruction to execute if its source operand (read) registers aren't to be written to by any unexecuted earlier instruction (true dependency) and the destination (write) register not be a register used by any unexecuted earlier ...

  7. Transactional NTFS - Wikipedia

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    Transactional NTFS (abbreviated TxF [1]) is a component introduced in Windows Vista and present in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that brings the concept of atomic transactions to the NTFS file system, allowing Windows application developers to write file-output routines that are guaranteed to either succeed completely or to fail completely. [2]

  8. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode with a 720×400 screen resolution, but changed to use the 640×480 screen resolution starting with Windows 2000 up to 7. Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI ...

  9. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2000 Service Pack 2: AIX 5L 5.1 OS/400 V5R1 2001–06: OpenBSD 2.9: 2001–07: Mac OS 9.2: eComStation 1.0 2001–08: Haiku [54] 2001–09: Mac OS X Puma (v10.1) 2001–10: Pocket PC 2002 Windows XP [55] Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2002 [56] Novell NetWare 6.0 2001–11: 2001–12: OpenBSD 3.0: OS/2 4.52 2002–01: Windows CE 4.x: JX ...