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  2. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    During the boot phase, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are executed, along with the configuration settings files WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI. Virtual device drivers are also loaded in the startup process: they are most commonly loaded from the registry ( HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD ) or from the SYSTEM.INI file.

  3. Control Panel (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Removed in Windows 10, and moved to the Settings App. Date and Time (timedate.cpl) Allows user to change the date and time stored in the machine's BIOS, change the time zone and specify whether to synchronize the date and time with an Internet Time Server and which server to use. Display (control desktop) (desk.cpl)

  4. System Management BIOS - Wikipedia

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    In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. [1] This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the computer.

  5. Out-of-band management - Wikipedia

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    It also can access local media like a DVD drive, or disk images, from the remote machine. If necessary, this allows one to perform remote installation of the operating system. Remote management can be used to adjust BIOS settings that may not be accessible after the operating system has already booted.

  6. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [1] It replaced the NTLDR present in older versions of Windows.

  7. Administrative share - Wikipedia

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    One needs to know the name of an administrative share in order to access it. [1] Not every hidden share is an administrative share; in other words, ordinary hidden shares may be created at user's discretion. [1] Automatically created: Administrative shares are created by Windows, not a network administrator. If deleted, they will be ...

  8. Windows Management Instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    In Windows 11 21H2, wmic /? displays "WMIC is deprecated.", followed by the help text (WMIC is still fully functional). In Windows 11 24H2, WMIC is not installed by default, and is available as optional feature installable from Windows Settings. There is a Linux port of WMI command line tool, written in Python, based on Samba4 called wmi-client ...

  9. Windows File Manager - Wikipedia

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    The program's interface showed a list of directories on the left hand panel, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right hand panel. File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, print, copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set permissions such as archive, read-only, hidden or system, and to associate file types with programs.