Term of the Day
Today • October 12
DVD-RW
Stands for "Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable" and is pronounced "DVD dash RW." DVD-RW is one of two standards for rewritable DVDs, along with DVD+RW. A rewritable DVD-RW disc can be written to, erased, and then written to again up to 1,000 times. DVD-RW discs have a capacity of 4.7 GB of data or video. Rewritable optical discs ... Read More
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Starting up a computer from an OFF state is called what?
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Reboot
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Safe boot
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Soft boot
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Cold Boot
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