The following is a list of
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
components.
Configuration and maintenance
User interface
Applications and utilities
Windows Server components
File systems
Core components
Services
This list is not all-inclusive.
DirectX
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", ...
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Direct3D
Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games. Direct3D uses hardware a ...
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DirectDraw
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DirectInput
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DirectMusic
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DirectPlay
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DirectShow
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DirectSound
DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2. It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and c ...
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DirectX Media Objects
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DirectX plugin In computer music and professional audio creation, a DirectX plugin is a software processing component that can be loaded as a plugin into ''host applications'' to allow real-time processing, audio effects, mixing audio or act as virtual synthesi ...
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DirectX Video Acceleration
Networking
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Administrative share
Administrative shares are hidden network shares created by Windows NT family of operating systems that allow system administrators to have remote access to every disk volume on a network-connected system. These shares may not be permanently delete ...
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Distributed File System
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My Network Places My Network Places (formerly Network Neighborhood) is the network browser feature in Windows Explorer. It was first introduced in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and was renamed My Network Places in Windows 2000 and later.
My Network Places maint ...
(formerly Network Neighborhood)
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Network Access Protection
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a Microsoft technology for controlling network access of a computer, based on its health. With NAP, system administrators of an organization can define policies for system health requirements. Examples of system h ...
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Remote Installation Services
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Server Message Block
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Windows Rights Management Services
Scripting and command-line
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Batch file
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CHKDSK
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Cmd.exe
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ComSpec
or is one of the environment variables used in DOS, OS/2 and Windows, which normally points to the command line interpreter, which is by default in DOS, Windows 95, 98, and ME or in OS/2 and Windows NT. The variable name is written in all-upper ...
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Ipconfig
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Net /
Net Send
* Netdom.exe: Windows Domain Manager
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Netsh
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Netstat
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QBasic
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Regsvr32
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Robocopy
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Win32 console
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Windows Script Host
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Windows PowerShell
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XCOPY
Kernel
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Commit charge
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Kernel Transaction Manager
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Win32 Thread Information Block
.NET Framework
The .NET Framework (pronounced as "''dot net"'') is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It was the predominant implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) until bein ...
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Assembly
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CLI Languages
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Metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
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.NET Remoting
.NET Remoting is a Microsoft application programming interface (API) for interprocess communication released in 2002 with the 1.0 version of .NET Framework. It is one in a series of Microsoft technologies that began in 1990 with the first version ...
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ADO.NET
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ASP.NET
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Base Class Library
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Common Intermediate Language
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Common Language Infrastructure
The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification and technical standard originally developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO/IEC (ISO/IEC 23271) and Ecma International (ECMA 335) that describes executable code and a runt ...
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Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime (CLR), the virtual machine component of Microsoft .NET Framework, manages the execution of .NET programs. Just-in-time compilation converts the managed code (compiled intermediate language code) into machine instructio ...
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Common Type System
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Virtual Execution System
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Windows CardSpace
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Windows Communication Foundation
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Windows Forms
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Windows Presentation Foundation
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Windows Workflow Foundation
Security
Deprecated components and apps
APIs
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ClearType
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Media Foundation
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Windows Driver Foundation
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Windows Imaging Component
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Windows Management Instrumentation
Miscellaneous (to be categorized)
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ActiveSync
ActiveSync is a mobile data synchronization app developed by Microsoft, originally released in 1996. It synchronizes data with handheld devices and desktop computers. In the Windows Task Manager, the associated process is called wcescomm.exe.
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* Compatibility Appraiser collects telemetry information.
* DMRC (Device Metadata Retrieval Client) interfaces to metadata about devices from Windows 7 onwards.
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I/O technologies
* Macro Recorder
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Microsoft Agent
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Prefetcher
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ReadyBoost
* Sync Center
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Text Services Framework
The Text Services Framework (TSF) is a COM framework and API in Windows XP and later Windows operating systems that supports advanced text input and text processing. The Language Bar is the core user interface for Text Services Framework.
Overvie ...
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Universal Audio Architecture
Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) is an initiative unveiled in 2002 by Microsoft to standardize the hardware and class driver architecture for audio devices in modern Microsoft Windows operating systems. Three classes of audio devices are support ...
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Windows Color System
* Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure (WDI)
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Windows Mobile Device Center
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Windows Rally
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Windows Registry
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Windows Speech Recognition
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XML Paper Specification
See also
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Outline of Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA and founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to comp ...
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List of Unix daemons
This is a list of Unix daemons that are found on various Unix-like operating systems. Unix daemons typically have a name ending with a ''d''.
See also
*List of Unix commands
This is a list of Unix commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1- ...
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List of games included with Windows
References
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