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  2. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    Also, in a multi-boot environment with multiple versions of Windows installed side by side, the F8 key can be pressed at the OS selector prompt to get to safe mode. However, under Windows 8 (released in 2012), the traditional press-F8-for-safe-mode-options UI convention no longer works, and either Shift-F8 or a special GUI-based workaround is ...

  3. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 29

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    Well, I have cleaned too many of these amvo.exe viri at my hostel. To start off, boot your pc to safe mode by pressing F8 just before the OS loads till start options appear. Open command prompt. Move to your system directory (mostly c:\windows\system32\). Type attrib -s -h -r amv*.* . Delete all those that appear. There might be more in the system.

  4. Booting - Wikipedia

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    The term "boot" has been used in this sense since at least 1958. [15] IBM System/3 console from the 1970s. Program load selector switch is lower left; Program load switch is lower right. Other IBM computers of that era had similar features. For example, the IBM 1401 system (c. 1958) used a card reader to load a program from a punched card. The ...

  5. C file input/output - Wikipedia

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    The C programming language provides many standard library functions for file input and output.These functions make up the bulk of the C standard library header <stdio.h>. [1] The functionality descends from a "portable I/O package" written by Mike Lesk at Bell Labs in the early 1970s, [2] and officially became part of the Unix operating system in Version 7.

  6. x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia

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    Below is the full 8086/8088 instruction set of Intel (81 instructions total). [2] These instructions are also available in 32-bit mode, in which they operate on 32-bit registers (eax, ebx, etc.) and values instead of their 16-bit (ax, bx, etc.) counterparts.

  7. Function key - Wikipedia

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    Mac: The classic Mac OS supported system extensions known generally as FKEYS which could be installed in the System file and could be accessed with a Command-Shift-(number) keystroke combination (Command-Shift-3 was the screen capture function included with the system, and was installed as an FKEY); however, early Macintosh keyboards did not support numbered function keys in the normal sense.

  8. Control key - Wikipedia

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    A Control key (marked "Ctrl") on a Windows keyboard next to one style of a Windows key, followed in turn by an Alt key The rarely used ISO keyboard symbol for "Control". In computing, a Control keyCtrl is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, Ctrl+C).

  9. CONFIG.SYS - Wikipedia

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    CONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file for the DOS and OS/2 operating systems.It is a special ASCII text file that contains user-accessible setup or configuration directives evaluated by the operating system's DOS BIOS (typically residing in IBMBIO.COM or IO.SYS) during boot.