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  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring.

  3. Advanced SCSI Programming Interface - Wikipedia

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    The ASPI manager is specific to the host adapter and operating system; its primary role is to abstract the host adapter specifics and provide a generic software interface to SCSI devices. [1]: 56 On Windows 9x and Windows NT, the ASPI manager is generic and relies on the services of SCSI miniport drivers.

  4. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    Allows users to change system settings, similar to the Control Panel, but has less options [1] start ms-settings: Windows 8: Control Panel: Control Panel: Allows users to view and change basic system settings and controls, such as adding hardware, adding and removing software, controlling user accounts, and changing accessibility options ...

  6. Remote Installation Services - Wikipedia

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    The Remote Installation Server doubles as a proxy DHCP server to provide Boot Server and File name instructions to clients. Remote Installation Service utilizes UDP port 4011 [3] to provide clients the contents of each page the OS Chooser displays. Additionally, this service can provide drivers to clients; it is often used to provide the ...

  7. 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.

  8. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 - Wikipedia

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    Some system components (such as filesystem, GWES (graphics, windowing, events server), [6] device driver manager) have been moved to the kernel space. The system components which now run in kernel have been converted from EXEs to DLLs, which get loaded into kernel space. New virtual memory model. The lower 2 GB is the process VM space and is ...

  9. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The SLIC is inserted into the ACPI data table and contains no active code. [39] [40] Computer manufacturers that distribute OEM versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft application software can use the SLIC to authenticate licensing to the OEM Windows Installation disk and system recovery disc containing Windows software