F
- Fast Boot and Resume
A Windows Vista technology that speeds up the boot process by performing nonessential tasks after the Windows system is loaded.
- FAT
- FAT 32
The disk file system used by versions of Windows prior to Windows NT and Windows XP.
- favorite
A bookmarked site in Internet Explorer.
- file
Any group of data treated as a single entity by the computer, such as a word processor document, a program, or a database.
- file allocation table
A file system table used by an operating system to track where data is stored on a disk.
- file system
The data structure used for organizing files and directories on a hard disk.
- firewall
Computer hardware or software with special security features to safeguard a computer connected to a network ...
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