FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT WINDOWS UPGRADE: NOTE!
Windows Anytime Upgrade is unavailable in some editions of Windows 7.
Online purchase is available only in Australia,
Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
If you have a Windows 7 Professional volume license, you can't use Windows Anytime Upgrade to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate.
Can I return to the edition of Windows 7 my computer was running before the upgrade?
Yes, but you'll need to do a clean installation of your previous
edition of Windows 7, which means that your files and program settings
won't be preserved
How can I find out if my computer will run features in other editions of Windows 7?
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is a program that you can download and
run on your computer to find out if you have the necessary hardware to
use specific features of a particular edition of Windows 7. To download
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, go to the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
website. The download is about 5 megabytes.
How can I buy a Windows Anytime Upgrade key?
In most places, you can go to an electronics store to buy an upgrade key.
In Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France,
Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom, and the United States, you also have the option to buy an
upgrade key online.
Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.
The first part of the formatting process that performs basic medium
preparation is often referred to as "low-level formatting".
Wiping A Hard Drive:
WIPING THE HARD DRIVE. Place the disk into the CD/DVD drive in the computer you wish to wipe. Reboot the machine, and boot to the disc. You may need to go into the BIOS to set the PC to boot from the CD/DVD drive, or use a temporary boot option to select "Boot from CD".
A massive open online course, is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education in which was first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012
Early MOOCs often emphasized open-access features, such as open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources. Some later MOOCs use closed licenses for their course materials while maintaining free access for students.Robert Zemsky (2014) argues that they have passed their peak: "They came; they conquered very little; and now they face substantially
What is a boot disk (startup disk) and why would I need one?
A boot disk (sometimes called a startup disk) was a type of removable media, such as a floppy disk, CD, or DVD, that contained Windows startup files that your computer could use to start Windows if the Windows system files on the hard disk became damaged or unusable.
In this version of Windows, you can create a system repair disc that
contains the System Recovery Options menu. This menu, also located both
on your computer's hard disk and on the Windows installation disc,
contains special recovery tools that can help get Windows running again.
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by and featuring Victoria's Secret, a brand of lingerie and sleepwear. Victoria's Secret uses the show to promote and market its goods in high-profile settings. The show features some of the world's leading fashion models such as current Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, and Lily Aldridge.
The Fantasy Bra (cont.)
Adriana Lima with the 2010 Fantasy Bra.
Typically, one model is chosen among the Angels to wear a bejeweled bra dubbed the "Fantasy Bra". It was first advertised in the Victoria's Secret catalog, but since 2001 has been worn in the Fashion Shows. Prior to each Fashion Show, Victoria's Secret contracts a renowned jewelry designer to craft the bra to be used as a focal point for promoting the fashion show and as a centerpiece within it. The company offers the Fantasy Bra for sale as "the ultimate holiday" gift. However, only the centerpiece from the 2004 Heavenly "70" Fantasy Bra and the 2012 Floral Fantasy Bra and Gift Set have found a buyer. If not bought, the bras are dismantled after a year.
Some critics have described the 21st-century televised editions of the show as pornographic, while others have described it as both "outright commercialism" and an infomercial. The Federal Communications Commission has received complaints regarding the broadcast, but no fines have been imposed, with the FCC, following the 2001 airing, citing the First Amendment and stating that "sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium" were not broadcast.In the initial 2001 airing ABC blurred the screen on particularly sheer lingerie. This enabled the show to pass muster with its internal Broadcast Standards and Practices department and to achieve the TV-14 rating. In 2002, the National Organization for Women protested the show calling it a "soft-core porn infomercial." They were joined in protest by the Parents Television Council and other watchdog organizations. CBS has given past shows TV-14 ratings, which is a warning that the show may contain material unsuitable for children age 14 and under. Nonetheless some affiliates have chosen not to air the show in past years including Fisher Broadcasting affiliates in Idaho. In 2009, the American Decency Association organized email letters of protests to sponsors of the show including AT&T, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Netflix, Nikon, and Reebok.CBS has described the event to as "the Super Bowl of fashion".
Printer is a machine for printing text or pictures onto paper, especially one linked to a computer.
Printer spooler is software that temporarily stores print jobs on the computer hard disk or in memory until the printer is ready to print them
Types of Printers:
Dot matrix: A type of impact printer that produces
characters and illustrations by striking pins against an ink ribbon
to print closely spaced dots in the appropriate shape. Dot-matrix
printers are relatively expensive and do not produce high-quality
output. However, they can print to multi-page forms (that is, carbon
copies), something laser and ink-jet printers cannot do.
Ink-jet: A type of printer that works by spraying
ionized ink at a sheet of paper. Magnetized plates in the ink's path
direct the ink onto the paper in the desired shapes. Ink-jet printers
are capable of producing high quality print approaching that produced
by laser printers. A typical ink-jet printer provides a resolution
of 600 dots per inch, although some newer models offer higher resolutions.
Laser: A type of printer that utilizes a laser beam
to produce an image on a drum. The light of the laser alters the electrical
charge on the drum wherever it hits. The drum is then rolled through
a reservoir of toner, which is picked up by the charged portions of
the drum. Finally, the toner is transferred to the paper through a
combination of heat and pressure. This is also the way copy machines
work.
Dye-Sublimation Printer – Is a type of printer which
employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium
such as a plastic card, printer paper or poster paper.
Thermal Printer- Is a type of printer that produces
a printed image by selectively heating coated thermo chromic paper,
or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over
the thermal print head. The coating turns black in the areas where
it is heated which then produce an image.
All-in-One Printer - A printer than can also do scanning, fax and make copies
