The button on the top right corner of a window that enlarges the window to fill the display, changing the maximize button into the restore button.
Button on Madonna's bra.#
A Windows 95 accessory program that operates as a control panel, allowing the user to play or edit a multimedia file.
Alternate title for Robert Altmans' film, "The CD Player".#
A unit of measurement equal to approximately 1 million bytes.
Also a unit of measurement based on the maximum amount of Doritos consumed by Jay Leno in one mouthful.#
The computer's primary storage.
Something completely lacking in Ronald Reagan's entire cabinet when the subject of Iran Contra came up.#
Programs or accessories that remain in memory even when other programs are loaded, so that they can be accessed with a hot key.
Not to be confused with Kato Kaelin, that would be an unwanted resident.#
An on-screen list of options or choices. You need a menu to save a file, copy an item, or delete a record.
You do not need a menu to order the Sylvester Stallone catch of the day.#
The bar at the top of a window just below the title bar that displays command choices.
What overly casual waiters say to Barbara Streisand. "Menu, Bar?"#
On-line communications service with internet support offered by Microsoft Corporation and installed as a standard feature of Windows 95.
Other names considered: The WCM (Windows Communications Network), The Bill Gates Channel, The Billion Gates Network.#
Acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A way to connect a musical instrument to the computer.
The director of Beaches felt Bette Midler looked best in a midi-skirt. The director of Bridges of Madison County felt Meryl Streep looked best in a mini-skirt. But the director of Sirens, well he obviously felt Elle Macpherson didn't look good in a skirt at all.#
One of the three buttons in the top right corner of the window. It closes the window but leaves the window accessible. If it is a program window, the program continues to run in the background. The window can be reopened or maximized from a button on the taskbar.
Also a special key on all computers in the White House press office.
Formerly called the Whitewater button, the Iran Contra button and the Watergate button.#
A particular operating state of a computer or program as in underline mode or 32 bit mode.
The best description for Bill Clinton's operating state would be pie a la mode.#
A device that allows computers to exchange information over a telephone line.
Favorite words heard at the Clinton dinner table, as in "I'll take mo'dem grits and mo'dem taters."#
A Windows 95 control panel item that allows the user to set up the modem for computer communications via telephone lines.
Overheard recently at an AT&T shareholders meeting: Don't panic our market has always been people without friends and family.#
An input device used to relocate the cursor on the screen, to highlight and edit text, make menu selections and move objects.
A rodent.#
In Windows 95, a control panel item that allows the user to change the settings for the mouse for either left- or right-handed use, which type of pointer is associated with which action, the motion of the pointer, and what style of mouse is being used.
Vermin.#
The cursor used to indicate the current position of the input device in a graphical user interface. This usually appears on screen as an arrow but will take on other forms for special purposes such as dragging and resizing.
You should use the mouse pointer to drag folders to the trash, you should not use the mouse pointer to drag your mother-in-law to the trash. Because it wouldn't work.#
An interface used for the mouse.
Also the place where Mickey keeps his boat.#
To relocate a file from one folder or directory to another.
Also what you should do if the sign on the mail box next door says "Mickey Rourke."#
Windows 95 control panel item that allows the user to control the Audio, MIDI, CD Music, Video, and Advanced settings by clicking on the corresponding tabs.
Regardless of what Bill Gates thinks, does not allow the user to control the world.#
Allows the user to view the properties of the multimedia devices and drivers in the machine.
See also Who Cares?#
Multimedia accessory sheet that allows the user to control the volume for recording and playback of sound. It also allows the user to set the sound device.
It doesn't allow the user to shout: "Could you turn that darned thing down!?"#
Allows the user to control the CD Music volume for the Headphones.
Alternate method: put the headphones on the desk and take three baby steps back. ... Did you remember to say "Mother, may !?"#
Allows the user to control the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) output settings.
Does not allow the user to control the length of Julia Roberts hemline.#
Multimedia accessory sheet that allows the user to control the size of a window in which video footage is played.
Best definition of multimedia heard to date: It's a plot by the computer industry to Think and Grow Rich!#
The ability to run more than one program on a computer at a time.
Also the ability of Bill Clinton to date more than two women at the same time.#
A default desktop icon that allows you to browse through the contents of your
computer, change the way your computer looks and works or get information about your disk drives and printer. Inside the My Computer Icon you will find an icon for your drives, the printer folder and the control panel folder.
You will not find Rock n' Roll icon Elvis Presley. He's in the Hot Keys.#
