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  2. cFosSpeed - Wikipedia

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    cFosSpeed. cFosSpeed is a traffic shaping software often bundled with MSI motherboards for the Windows operating system. The program attaches itself as a device driver to the Windows network stack where it performs packet inspection and layer-7 protocol analysis. It has been noted as causing some issues with network connections, and can be ...

  3. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to its predecessor BIOS which is a de facto standard originally created by IBM as proprietary software, UEFI is an open standard maintained by an industry consortium. Intel developed the original Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification. The last Intel version of EFI was 1.10 released in 2005.

  4. coreboot - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.coreboot.org. coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, [5] is a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware (BIOS or UEFI) found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.

  5. Power-on self-test - Wikipedia

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    Power-on self-test. A power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. [ 1 ] POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detect if any hardware components are non-functional.

  6. Installation (computer programs) - Wikipedia

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    Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution.The file commonly called "setup.exe" means .exe execute the file or the setting up execution to set' up or set it up to an stall in disk or block.

  7. Bootloader - Wikipedia

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    Bootloader. GNU GRUB, a popular open source bootloader. Windows bootloader. A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader[1][2] or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. If it also provides an interactive menu with multiple boot choices then it's often called a boot manager.

  8. Windows Installer - Wikipedia

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    When an MSI-based program is launched, Windows Installer checks the existence of key paths. If there is a mismatch between the current system state and the value specified in the MSI package (e.g., a key file is missing), the related feature is re-installed. This process is known as self-healing or self-repair. No two components should use the ...

  9. Comparison of bootloaders - Wikipedia

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    OSL2000 Boot Manager 12 February 2017: Proprietary: PLoP Boot Manager 15 April 2013: Proprietary: No cost: Official website: quibble maharmstone 20210111 February 13, 2020: 29 March 2023: GPL-3.0-or-later: No cost: Official website: RedBoot: GPL-2.0-or-later (eCos license) rEFInd (fork of rEFIt) Roderick W. Smith 0.14.4.2 March 14, 2012: 6 ...