Dell Inspiron 2000 - Manual (Page 41)

V
Abbreviation for volt(s).
VAC
Abbreviation for volt(s) alternating current.
VCCI
Abbreviation for Voluntary Control Council for Interference.
VDC
Abbreviation for volt(s) direct current.
VESA
Acronym for Video Electronics Standards Association.
VGA
Abbreviation for video graphics array. VGA and SVGA are video standards for video cards and controllers with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous
standards.
To display a program at a specific resolution, you must install the appropriate video drivers and your monitor must support the resolution. Similarly, the number of colors that a
program can display depends on the capabilities of the monitor, the video controller and its drivers, and the amount of video memory installed in the computer.
video card
An expansion card that provides the video capabilities —in combination with the monitor—for your computer system. A video card may support more or fewer features than a
specific monitor offers. Typically, a video card comes with video drivers for displaying popular application programs and operating systems in a variety of video modes.
Video cards can include memory separate from RAM on the system board. The amount of video memory, along with the card's video drivers, may affect the number of colors
that can be simultaneously displayed. Video cards can also include their own coprocessor for faster graphics rendering.
video driver
A program that allows graphics-mode application programs and operating systems to be displayed at a chosen resolution with the desired number of colors. A software
package may include some "generic" video drivers. Any additional video drivers may need to match the video card installed in the computer.
video memory
Most VGA and SVGA video cards include memory chips in addition to the computer's RAM. The amount of video memory installed primarily influences the number of colors
that a program can display (with the appropriate video drivers and monitor capabilities).
video mode
Video cards normally support multiple text and graphics display modes. Character-based software, such as text editors, display in text modes that can be defined as x
columns by y rows of characters. Graphics-based software, such as the Windows 98 operating system, displays in graphics modes that can be defined as x horizontal pixels
by y vertical pixels by z colors.
video resolution
Video resolution —800 x 600, for example—is expressed as the number of pixels across by the number of pixels up and down. To display a program at a specific graphics
resolution, you must install the appropriate video drivers and your monitor must support the resolution.
virus
A program designed to be an inconvenience, either by replicating itself until a computer or network runs out of memory or by corrupting files stored on a hard-disk drive.
The most common way that virus programs move from one computer to another is via "infected" diskettes and from software downloaded from the Internet. When an infected
program is started, so is the embedded virus.
W
Abbreviation for watt(s).
wallpaper
The background appearance of the Windows desktop.