HP Compaq Presario,Presario 5116 Quick Start Manual page 166

A complete set of letters, numbers,
punctuation marks, and symbols in a
particular typeface. When you use a word
processing program, you can choose from
a long list of fonts to give your document
personality.
G
A connector on the back of the
computer for plugging in a gamepad,
joystick, or steering wheel. See joystick.
(pronounced giff). A file format for
graphics displayed on the Internet. They
are easily identified by the file extension
.gif. You can save a GIF file from a Web
site to your computer. Point to the image
with the cursor and right click. A shortcut
menu is displayed. Select Save Picture
As... The Save As dialog box appears.
Select a folder, name the file, and click the
Save button. See file extension. See also
JPEG.
between a person and a computer by
means of images. With a pointing device,
such as a mouse, you click an icon to tell
the computer what you want. See icon. See
also interface.
Pictures or illustrations,
including drawings, pie charts, bar graphs,
street maps, architectural and engineering
designs, fashion designs, musical scores,
cartoons, animated images, and
photographs. A graphics card enables the
monitor to display these items on the
screen. See SVGA.
Communication
H
Internal media for permanent
storage of system files, programs, utilities,
and data files. The hard disk consists of
flat, round platters. Each side of each
platter has a head that floats on a thin
cushion of air over the surface of the
rapidly spinning disk and reads
electronically stored data or writes data
onto the disk. If the computer is dropped, a
head may fall onto a platter and cause the
hard disk to crash.
The drive that reads and writes
to the hard disk. If you have a large hard
drive, it may be divided into several
partitions. Each partition is designated by a
different icon and drive letter, beginning,
consecutively, with the letter C. Partition
C: contains the files the computer uses to
start up. The other partitions contain no
preinstalled files.
The physical components of a
computer—the parts you can physically
touch. See software.
The standard language for documents
designed for viewing on the Web with a
browser. Tags, embedded in the
documents, mark the location of other
electronic files. Click the hyperlinks to
jump from one Web site to another.
Documents formatted for a browser can be
identified by the file extension .htm or
.html. See hyperlink. See also file
extension.