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Dell Latitude D530 (Early 2008) User Manual

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Glossary

capacity of a battery. For example, a 66-WHr battery can supply 66 W of power for 1

hour or 33 W for 2 hours.
wallpaper — The background pattern or picture on the Windows desktop. Change

your wallpaper through the Windows Control Panel. You can also scan in your favorite

picture and make it wallpaper.
WLAN — wireless local area network. A series of interconnected computers that

communicate with each other over the air waves using access points or wireless routers

to provide Internet access.
write-protected — Files or media that cannot be changed. Use write-protection when

you want to protect data from being changed or destroyed. To write-protect a 3.5-inch

floppy disk, slide its write-protect tab to the open position.
WWAN — wireless wide area network. A wireless high-speed data network using

cellular technology and covering a much larger geographic area than WLAN.
WXGA — wide-aspect extended graphics array — A video standard for video cards

and controllers that supports resolutions up to 1280 x 800.

X

XGA — extended graphics array — A video standard for video cards and controllers

that supports resolutions up to 1024 x 768.

Z

ZIF — zero insertion force — A type of socket or connector that allows a computer

chip to be installed or removed with no stress applied to either the chip or its socket.
Zip — A popular data compression format. Files that have been compressed with the

Zip format are called Zip files and usually have a filename extension of .zip. A special

kind of zipped file is a self-extracting file, which has a filename extension of .exe. You

can unzip a self-extracting file by double-clicking it.
Zip drive — A high-capacity floppy drive developed by Iomega Corporation that uses

3.5-inch removable disks called Zip disks. Zip disks are slightly larger than regular

floppy disks, about twice as thick, and hold up to 100 MB of data.