Desktop PC

Desktop PC

Any personal computing system that is small enough to be used at a desk.

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To start at a top-level or general menu, directory, or Web page and pass through several intermediate menus,directories, or linked pages, until the specific file, page, menu command, or other item ...

drive bay

Computer; Desktop PC

A hollow, rectangular area in a computer chassis designed to hold a disk drive. The side walls of a drive bay generally contain holes to facilitate installation of a disk drive. Some drive bays, such ...

drive letter

Computer; Desktop PC

The naming convention for disk drives on IBM and compatible computers. Drives are named by letter, beginning with A, followed by a colon.

drive mapping

Computer; Desktop PC

The assignment of a letter or name to a disk drive so that the operating system or network server can identify and locate it. For example, in PCs, the primary drive mappings are A: and B: for floppy ...

drive number

Computer; Desktop PC

The naming convention for Macintosh disk drives. For example, a two-drive system calls its drives 0 and 1.

driver

Computer; Desktop PC

A hardware device or a program that controls or regulates another device. A device driver, for example, is a device-specific control program that enables a computer to work with a particular device, ...