Windows 98 From A to Z

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Emergency Boot Disk

Emergency boot disk is the informal name for the Windows 98 StartUp disk (see the "StartUp Disk" entry for details). The purpose of the StartUp disk is to help you get back into your computer should the Windows 98 operating system fail for any reason. The StartUp Disk contains specialized boot files that will start the operating system from a single floppy disk, and then will attempt to restore operations to your PC as best as possible. Use of the StartUp disk should be as a last resort, because it is possible that it may overwrite some critical system information, possibly forcing you to reinstall one or more of your applications.

Explorer (Windows)

Explorer is the informal term for the Windows Explorer application that is used to maneuver throughout the Windows 98 file system. For further details, see the section titled "Windows Explorer."

Extranet

An extranet can be defined as a private network that usually uses the public telephone systems with Internet technology to share information or with
others either within your organization or on the outside. An extranet is sometimes an extension of an organization's intranet that makes internal information "public" to a specific audience.


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