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The graphical identification and authentication (GINA) is a component of Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, [ 1] Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 [ 2] that provides secure authentication and interactive logon services. GINA is a replaceable dynamically linked library that is loaded early in the boot process in the context of ...
Winlogon ( Windows Logon) is the component of Microsoft Windows operating systems that is responsible for handling the secure attention sequence, loading the user profile on logon, creates the desktops for the window station, and optionally locking the computer when a screensaver is running (requiring another authentication step).
MSW Logo windows. MSWLogo is a programming language which is interpreted, based on the computer language Logo, with a graphical user interface (GUI) front end. George Mills developed it at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Its core is the same as UCBLogo by Brian Harvey. It is free and open-source software, with source code ...
The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor.
In addition, the System File Checker utility ( sfc.exe) was reimplemented as a more robust command-line utility that integrated with WFP. Unlike the Windows 98 SFC utility, the new utility forces a scan of protected system files using Windows File Protection and allows the immediate silent restoration of system files from the DLLCache folder or ...
regsvr32. In computing, regsvr32 (Register Server) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [ 1] for registering and unregistering DLLs and ActiveX controls in the operating system Registry. [ 2] Despite the suffix "32" in the name of the file, there are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this utility (with identical names ...
A "personal computer" version of Windows is considered to be a version that end-users or OEMs can install on personal computers, including desktop computers, laptops, and workstations. The first five versions of Windows– Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1 –were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both ...
Windows Management Instrumentation. Windows Management Instrumentation ( WMI) consists of a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components provide information and notification. WMI is Microsoft 's implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and ...