HP Compaq Presario,Presario 5116 Quick Start Manual page 169

browser developed by the Microsoft
Corporation. See browser.
computer operating system in the world. It
is characterized by the use of windows and
icons. Each running program and open file
has its own window. Instead of
memorizing commands, you click icons to
communicate with the computer. Clicking
the Minimize button shrinks a program to
a button on the taskbar. Clicking the button
redisplays the program as a window. You
can have several windows open at the
same time and toggle from one to another
by using Alt+Tab (press and hold down
the Alt key, press the Tab key, and then
release both keys). A palette with an icon
for each program is displayed. Click the
icon for the program you want.
To shrink a running program
window into an icon on the Windows
taskbar by clicking the Minimize
button—the button with the minus sign in
the upper-right corner of a window. Click
the button on the taskbar to view the
window again. See Microsoft Windows.
See also maximize.
A device in the computer that
allows data to be transferred through a
standard telephone line to another
computer.
A device that you move across the
top of your desk (or a mousepad) to move
the pointer or cursor on the screen. Click to
select an item, double-click to launch a
program, and right-click to display a
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shortcut menu. See mouse pointer and
cursor. See also click, double-click, and
right-click.
The arrow on the screen
that moves with the mouse.
The file extension for MPEG
(pronounced M-peg), audio layer 3, sound
files. The format is easily identified by the
file extension .mp3. This format
compresses sound data from a stereo music
CD to 1/12th its original size without
sacrificing sound quality. Because of their
small size, MP3 files can easily be
transferred over the Internet. You can
download individual songs or entire CDs
in MP3 format to your computer. See file
extension.
Motion Picture Experts Group, a
standards organization responsible for the
MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards for the
compression of full-motion video.
Two or more media formats
used together, such as text, graphics,
animation, audio, or video.
A method of adding data
incrementally to a CD in more than one
recording session. If data is linked between
sessions, all data on a multisession CD,
when read on a multisession CD-ROM
drive, may be seen as part of a single
logical structure. Multisession is different
from packet writing.
Programs for composing
and editing music. When you play a tune
on a synthesizer keyboard connected to a
computer, the music program translates