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  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    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

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    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. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, PCs running 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are compatible with UEFI Class 2. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] 32-bit UEFI was originally not supported since vendors did not have any interest in producing native 32-bit UEFI firmware because of the mainstream status of ...

  5. Advanced Power Management - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    Windows Calendar, Windows Live Mail, or the Calendar app for Windows Microsoft Diagnostics: Tool that provides detailed technical information about user's software and hardware Diagnostics MS-DOS: Plus! 95 for Windows 95: Microsoft System Information Microsoft Fax: Faxing app Fax Windows 95: Windows XP: Windows Fax and Scan: Microsoft Private ...

  7. Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia

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    In Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, the controller driver has changed from msahci to storahci, [10] and the procedures to upgrade to the AHCI controller is similar to that of Windows 7. [11] On Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, changing from IDE mode to AHCI mode without first updating the registry will make the boot drive ...

  8. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    In May 2016, Microsoft released a "Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1," which contains all patches released between the release of SP1 and April 2016. The rollup is not available via Windows Update, and must be downloaded manually. This package can also be integrated into a Windows 7 installation image. [162]

  9. Installation (computer programs) - Wikipedia

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    A system installer is the software that is used to set up and install an operating system onto a device. Windows Setup is the system installer of Microsoft Windows. Examples of Linux system installers: Anaconda: used by CentOS, Fedora; Calamares: used by multiple Linux distributions (incl. some Ubuntu flavors, Debian, and derivates)