Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions.
For questions specific to Windows 10. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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A spreadsheet application by Microsoft. Use this tag along with [vba] if your question involves programming Excel in VBA, and with [worksheet-function] if it involves an Excel formula or worksheet function. Also add the the specific version tag (e.g. [microsoft-excel-2019] or [microsoft-excel-365]) as features and functions may vary between them.
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Free, open-source operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu questions are on topic here, but if you prefer an Ubuntu-only audience there is Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/).
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Apple's Unix-based operating system. Use for questions about the operating system or to provide OS context. For Mac hardware questions, use [mac]. Questions about using macOS on non-Apple hardware ("Hackintosh"), are off-topic.
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A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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Also known as WiFi. This tag should be used when asking home WiFi networking questions or connecting your personal computer to a public network. Questions about enterprise or corporate wireless networks are off topic.
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An interface for interacting with a computer using typed commands in a text-oriented environment, as opposed to a graphical user interface (GUI).
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For questions specific to Windows 8. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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For questions specific to Windows XP. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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Questions about using in-cell functions/formulas in spreadsheet software.
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Always use the version specific tag for your version of Microsoft Word unless asking a general non-version specific question.
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When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're working with partitions.
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Media tool with support for multiple codecs, filters, and containers. Include your actual command and the complete console output when asking questions involving FFmpeg tools. An easy way to do this is by adding `-report` to your command and pasting the contents of the logfile generated.
For help with CLI use only of ff* binaries - ffmpeg, ffprobe, ffplay. For help with API usage, post on Stack Overflow.
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Drivers are the middleware that allow computer programs to use resources of a specific hardware device.
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Solid-state drive; a device that uses solid-state memory to persistently store data, often as a replacement for a traditional hard drive. Because SSDs do not use mechanical seeking to access data, they can provide much higher performance than hard drives especially with random I/O operations.
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Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language for Windows that supersedes the CMD.exe shell and batch language. PowerShell is also an automation engine for Windows that provides functionality similar to Windows Script Host and VBScript.
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A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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For questions specific to Windows 8.1. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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An expansion card inserted into a motherboard for rendering graphics with enhanced performance over integrated graphics solutions.
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For questions about connecting multiple monitors to a single computer either desktop or laptop.
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The process of installing software, hardware, or peripherals on a personal computer.
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Windows Explorer (renamed to File Explorer in Windows 8) is the file manager that comes with Windows and is not to be confused with Internet Explorer which is Windows' default Web browser.
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For questions specific to Windows 11. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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A shell is software that lets users interact with the operating system, usually by typing at a command-line.
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Batch processing is the execution of a set of commands or software programs without user intervention.
A batch file is a text file containing a sequence of such commands or programs invocations.
Please use the tag [batch-file] for that.
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Visual Basic for Applications; a subset of Visual Basic used in all Microsoft Office applications. Consider using this tag together with the tag for the specific application in question.
Good questions on VBA generally contain some code and asks for solution of specific issues. Questions asking for entire solutions (please give me the code / how to do this and this with VBA) are off topic and will be closed as too broad.
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Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent standard developed by Adobe System in 1993 for document exchange.
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Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor.
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A hard drive designed to be connected to a computer via an external interface such as USB, eSATA, Thunderbolt, or IEEE 1394.
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Application suite from Microsoft which includes always Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Depending on what edition of Microsoft Office you have you can also have OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.
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A file system is the specification of how files in a computer should be stored, named and organized. This tag should be used for generic file system questions. For specific file system questions (FAT, NTFS, ext4, ...) use the appropriate tag instead.
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