Working with Windows 8/8.1 Flashcards
Windows 8 was released in ___ different editions
four
When the new interface was released with Windows 8, it was called the ___ __. This name did not last long; it came to be known as the new Windows UI or the Windows 8 UI.
Metro UI
____ it is the online/cloud storage account that comes with your Microsoft account.
OneDrive
Windows 8 introduced ____ to the OS. These are controls that are available on the side of the screen for every Windows Store app. They consist of Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings.
Charms
___ is a central dialog for dealing with problems, security, and maintenance.
Action Center
With a ___ install, no traces of any previous operating system are kept, and the main concern is that the hardware meets (or preferably, exceeds) the minimum requirements.
Clean
With an ____, the focus is on keeping something from the previous operating system that was installed earlier on the machine. That “something” can be user accounts, data, apps, or almost anything else.
Updgrade
When the upgrade is done without removing the existing operating system (the norm), this is known as an ___ upgrade.
In-place
____ keeps personal files and settings along with the default apps and those that you installed from the Windows Store.
Refreshing
____ reinstalls Windows and deletes all but the default apps (meaning that you lose your personal files and settings).
Resetting
____ allows you to just undo recent system changes.
Restoring
___ is an area of the hard drive set aside to hold files that can be used to recover the operating system in the event of a failure.
Recovery Partition
By definition, a ____ partition is one that contains the Boot (BCD) folder that tells the computer where to look to start Windows
System
What boot file loads the operating systems kernel?
WINLOAD.EXE:
What boot file holds information about OSs installed on the computer, such as the location of the OS files.
BCD
Boot Configuration Data
