The first or default hard disk accessed by most computers. A: and B: are reserved for floppy disk drives.
What Divine Brown said to Hugh Grant..."See? Drive! Drive!"#
A storage area in memory where large portions of frequently accessed instructions are stored to prevent repeated hard disk retrieval.
Or a storage area underneath Tom Hank's bed where large portions of his latest movie's earnings are stored to prevent repeated trips to the bank.#
A set of special high speed memory chips with its own bus to the CPU, where the most frequently requested data is stored.
See also Donald Trump.#
A program that allows the user to do mathematical calculations. This program can be displayed as either a Standard or Scientific calculator.
Einstein on a date with Roseanne. "Did you know that in Hexadecimal 5A + BB = 115?" "Did you know that I don't give a flying...."#
This program is a combination wall calendar and daily planner, allowing the user to input information, such as meetings and important dates.
Thought for the day: If men were meant to use computers, they would have been born with brains.#
A program that creates electronic "index cards", allowing the user to track small amounts of information according to the header on the card.
A lovely way to track recipes, not such a good way to track deer or deadbeat Dads.#
Option in Windows 95 available by right clicking on the taskbar. Arranges all currently open windows by overlaying and offsetting each window starting from the upper left.
Available in new lemon scent!#
A display mode that overlaps windows displaying the title bars and edges.
They'll cause you to say "I can see myself in the shine!"#
Represents a CD-ROM drive on your computer or network available in Windows 95.
The name of a new Seattle grunge band. Get their debut album entitled, "Cappuccinos Every 15 Feet".#
A Windows 95 accessory program used in conjunction with the CD-ROM drive. It turns your computer into a Compact Disc player, allowing you to play any music CD inserted in the CD-ROM drive.
"The CD Player" : A film by Robert Altman starring Jim Carrey about a kooky multimedia bigwig who gets threatening letters while listening to CD's.#
Abbreviation for Compact Disc-Read Only Memory. A storage medium that uses compact disks that can store up to 650MB of data. The contents of a CD-ROM may not be changed or erased. Developed by Phillips and Sony.
Also, the seedy bar where Boris Yeltsin does shooters.#
A read-only disk drive designed to read the data on a CD-ROM and transfer it to a computer.
Little known fact about CD-ROM drives: they were invented by George Lucas as a character in the original Star Wars but were cut from the final movie due to a contract dispute.#
A microprocessor chip containing the computer's arithmetic-logic processing and control unit. Sometimes called the brains of your computer.
Note: not to be confused with Alfonse D'Amato, who , it appears, has no brain.#
A graphical representation of a toggle being turned on or off. When the option is turned on, a check or an X appears in the box.
Also the package that arrives in the mail and causes you to shout "I'm rich!!!"#
A microscopic electronic circuit produced on a tiny silicon chip or wafer. Types include RAM chips, CPU chips and ROM chips.
But not potato chips, or the old t.v. show, "CHiPS". Hey, Ponch...wait up!#
In a program or system that uses dialog boxes and menus, the process of making a selection that begins an action. You should choose to save your files at regular intervals.
You should not choose to date Madonna at regular intervals, unless you'd also like to take antibiotics at regular intervals.#
To rapidly press and release the button on a mouse.
Or the sound Clint Eastwood's gun makes just before he says, "Well, Do ya, punk?"#
The procedure for moving an icon across the desktop in Windows 95. So named because the mouse button is clicked and then the mouse dragged to place the mouse pointer and the icon that follows in a new position. Once the pointer and icon are over the desired position, the mouse button is released.
Differs from schtick and drag which is Robin Williams in a strapless evening gown.#
A workstation, usually a PC connected to a network , that can request information or applications from the server.
Or, another name for movie stars who befriend Heidi Fleiss. *See Charlie Sheen.#
Graphic images stored on disk that are available for use with programs that produce page layouts such as newsletters and brochures.
Clip Art Trivia: The first known clip art disk contained photographs by Kenny Rogers, paintings by Red Skelton and really bad songs by John Tesh.#
In a windowing environment, a temporary area where text or other material that has been cut from a document is stored before it is pasted elsewhere.
Government commission responsible for cutting scenes from movies starring Kevin Costner. #
The process of ending access to an open file. A file that is closed can not be modified until it is opened again and frees up system resources for other purposes. A file can be often closed with or without saving the changes of the most recent editing session.
It is a good idea to close files that are no longer in active use, or else Glenn Close will pop up on your scream and shout, "I will not be ignored!"#
The button that terminates an application or closes a window.
This is not the button that terminates family pets. That would be the Glenn Close button. (Please don't hurt me, Ms. Close).#
When using the Windows 95 Explorer, folders with a minus sign can be "collapsed" to hide the display of contents of the folder.
After a 1929 bank run in Ohio the stock market collapsed. After fan riots in Brazil, a soccer stadium collapsed. After seeing his last bank statement, Donald Trump collapsed.#
A dialog box control that is a combination of a text box and list box where you can select from a list or type in your own choice.
Not to be confused with new McDonalds extra value meal that includes a cup of hot coffee and a liability policy.#
A dialog box control button such as OK, Cancel and Help that cause an action to occur.
Also a button on your remote control labeled SWEETHEART that causes a beer to appear from the refrigerator. (Or, if you're a woman, a pint of Haagen Daaz.)#
A plastic disk using optical storage technology that can hold 650MB of computer data (CD-ROM), or 72 minutes of music (CD-DA).
Recycling tip: This CD can also be used as a handsome coaster. #
The combination of hardware and software settings that uniquely defines your computer. The choices included in setting up a computer system or application that meet the user's needs.
Good configuration: the position of the moon and stars on Shirley McClaine's birthday. Bad configuration: Michael and Lisa Marie!#
In Windows 95, the component of Plug and Play responsible for managing the software configuration associated with the system's hardware configuration.
Not to be confused with the night manager at Burger King who has a tattoo below his navel reading "Special Orders Don't Upset Us."#
The right pane in the Windows Explorer window that shows the contents of a folder or desktop icon.
Also the type of headache you get after reading the ingredients label on a box of Hostess Twinkies.#
On an IBM PC-compatible keyboard, a key used in combination with other keys to issue a command.
The key Madonna sings in when she's wearing leather.#
In Windows, a drop-down menu that contains options for managing the active window. You know you are in control when your computer prints documents every time you request them.
You know you are out of control when you think your computer is telling you that Larry King wants to love you like you've never been loved before.#
The button in the top left corner of a window that opens the control menu.
You know you haven't been out since the 70's when you start going out in public with your control menu button undone.#
The control panel contains the controls for the Windows 95 environment such as the colors of the screen.
It does not, however, sing with all the colors of the wind. For that, you need Pocohontas.#
Represents the control panel for your computer available in Windows 95. You should use the control panel icon to access important operational characteristics of your computer.
You should not use the control panel icon to start a codependency group.#
In an IBM PC-compatible computer, the first 640K of random access memory.
At a Democratic Convention, the first 640 women to remember sleeping with Bill Clinton.#
A file duplicated from an original. To duplicate data and use it in another location in a document; or to store an additional instance of the same file on another disk.
Remember, when you copy someone's floppy, it's like copying all the floppies that person has ever copied before. #
See Central Processing Unit.
Do not see Bonfire of the Vanities.#
The directory in DOS that is used as the default by an application to store and retrieve files.
Not to be confused with the Heidi Fleiss directory which some wish had been written in invisible ink.#
The current window has a highlighted title bar and the button on the taskbar with the current window title appears to be depressed.
Also what a stockbroker looks for after a market crash when he appears to be depressed.#
A blinking character used to show where the next character will appear.
A cursor is also a character who swears uncontrollably after a general protection fault. Or Madonna on Letterman.#
The arrow keys that move the cursor on the screen.
A chain of islands in Florida left off of most digital maps due to censorship by the Recreational Software Advisory Council.#
This allows the user to remove a highlighted selection from within a document or window. After the selection is removed, it can then be pasted into another document or window.
"You're so low, you'd release a new operating system just to make another cool billion."#
An editing function where a block of text is cut from one location in a document and placed in another.
