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settings—and presents a fresh installation of Windows. Use Reset as the last

resort when troubleshooting a PC. And back up data first, if possible.

Renamed to Remove everything in Windows 10.

resistance Difficulty in making electricity flow through a material,

measured in ohms.

resistor Any material or device that impedes the flow of electrons.

Antistatic wrist straps and mats use tiny resistors to prevent a static charge

from racing through the device.

resolution Measurement for monitors and printers expressed in horizontal

and vertical dots or pixels. Higher resolutions provide sharper details and

thus display better-looking images.

Resource Monitor Windows utility that displays detailed performance

information about a computer’s CPU, memory, disk, and network activity.

resource pooling Consolidating resources from many systems into a

smaller number of more powerful systems, reducing power, maintenance, and

hardware costs.

resources Data and services such as files, folders, drives, printers,

connections, and so on.

respect What all techs should show their customers.

response rate The amount of time it takes for all the sub-pixels on an LCD

panel to change from one state to another. This change is measured in one of

two ways: black-to-white (BtW) measures how long it takes the pixels to go

from pure black to pure white and back again, and gray-to-gray (GtG)

measures how long it takes the pixels to go from one gray state to another.

restore point A snapshot of a computer’s configuration at a specific point

in time, created by the System Restore utility and used to restore a

malfunctioning system. See also System Restore.

RET (resolution enhancement technology) Technology that uses small

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