enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI

    The "It's now safe to power off the system" screen in Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft's Windows 98 was the first operating system to implement ACPI, [17] [18] but its implementation was somewhat buggy or incomplete, [19] [20] although some of the problems associated with it were caused by the first-generation ACPI hardware. [21]

  3. Legacy Plug and Play - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play

    The sound card Sound Blaster AWE32 PNP CT3990 had a Plug-and-Play ISA Bus interface chip (large square chip, mid of bottom row).. The term Legacy Plug and Play, [1] also shortened to Legacy PnP, [2] describes a series of specifications and Microsoft Windows features geared towards operating system configuration of devices, and some device IDs are assigned by UEFI Forum. [3]

  4. Advanced SCSI Programming Interface - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_SCSI_Programming...

    Starting in 1995, Microsoft licensed the interface for use with their Windows 9x operating systems. At the same time Microsoft developed SCSI Pass Through Interface (SPTI), an in-house substitute that worked on the NT platform. Microsoft did not include ASPI in Windows 2000/XP, in favor of its own SPTI. [10]

  5. Windows Hardware Error Architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Hardware_Error...

    WHEA "builds on the PCI Express Advanced Reporting to provide more detailed information about system errors and a common reporting structure." [ 4 ] WHEA allows third-party software to interact with the operating system and react to certain hardware events.

  6. UEFI - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI

    In 2011, Microsoft announced that computers certified to run its Windows 8 operating system had to ship with Microsoft's public key enrolled and Secure Boot enabled, which implies that using UEFI is a requirement for these devices.

  7. Advanced Power Management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Power_Management

    Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 [1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

  8. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows...

    Windows 10: Command Prompt: Text-based shell (command line interpreter) that provides a command line interface to the operating system Windows NT 3.1: Windows PowerShell: Command-line shell and scripting framework. Windows XP: Windows Shell: The most visible and recognizable aspect of Microsoft Windows.

  9. Microsoft POSIX subsystem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

    Windows NT versions 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 were certified as compliant with FIPS 151-2. The runtime environment of the subsystem is provided by two files: psxss.exe and psxdll.dll . A POSIX application uses psxdll.dll to communicate with the subsystem while communicating with posix.exe to provide display capabilities on the Windows desktop.