Dell Inspiron E1705 Owner's Manual - Page 182
wallpaper, write-protected, Zip drive, zero insertion force - A type of socket or - removing graphics card
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W W - watt - The measurement of electrical power. One W is 1 ampere of current flowing at 1 volt. WHr - watt-hour - A unit of measure commonly used to indicate the approximate capacity of a battery. For example, a 66-WHr battery can supply 66 W of power for 1 hour or 33 W for 2 hours. wallpaper - The background pattern or picture on the Windows desktop. Change your wallpaper through the Windows Control Panel. You can also scan in your favorite picture and make it wallpaper. WLAN - wireless local area network. A series of interconnected computers that communicate with each other over the air waves using access points or wireless routers to provide Internet access. write-protected - Files or media that cannot be changed. Use write-protection when you want to protect data from being changed or destroyed. To write-protect a 3.5-inch floppy disk, slide its write-protect tab to the open position. WWAN - wireless wide area network. A wireless highspeed data network using cellular technology and covering a much larger geographic area than WLAN. WXGA - wide-aspect extended graphics array - A video standard for video cards and controllers that supports resolutions up to 1280 x 800." X XGA - extended graphics array - A video standard for video cards and controllers that supports resolutions up to 1024 x 768. Z ZIF - zero insertion force - A type of socket or connector that allows a computer chip to be installed or removed with no stress applied to either the chip or its socket. Zip - A popular data compression format. Files that have been compressed with the Zip format are called Zip files and usually have a filename extension of .zip. A special kind of zipped file is a self-extracting file, which has a filename extension of .exe. You can unzip a self-extracting file by double-clicking it. Zip drive - A high-capacity floppy drive developed by Iomega Corporation that uses 3.5-inch removable disks called Zip disks. Zip disks are slightly larger than regular floppy disks, about twice as thick, and hold up to 100 MB of data. 182 Glossary