The win386.swp file is a system file that is used by the Windows environment for the virtual memory. This means, that it uses your hard drive as if it would be another memory in your system. Using this means, that your computer will run faster and better. Windows will write into this file data, that [...]

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Located in the folder C:\Windows\System32 the ‘rundll’ file makes possible to run a DLL file as an application placing its libraries in the memory for better performance.
A few examples the rundll32.exe file can do to execute some commands in command prompt:
- creating shortcut – locking Windows workstation – log off, restart or/and shutdown the computer [...]

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Also known as Generic Host Process for Win32 Services the svchost.exe file is used by the Windows OS to load ‘DLL’ files needed to run the Operating System on your computer.
It can handle 32-bit DLLs and checks the services from the registry making a list of all the services which are needed to be loaded [...]

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First of all we would like to let you know what the boot.ini file is, where it is located, what is its purpose and so on. The boot.ini file is an initialization file used by the Microsoft operating systems and it is located in the root of the primary partition where the system is installed. [...]

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The ‘io.sys’ file is a hidden system file and it is being used to load the operating system when the computer starts booting.
The earliest operating systems like MS-DOS or Windows 3.1 needed more files for the loading process like msdos.sys and other system files. With the appearance of the newer Windows operating systems, the [...]

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It is the acronym for automatically executed batch file which is used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows like Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. The autoexec.bat file is positioned in the root directory and it automatically executes commands each time the system starts up.
This batch file is mostly used to set environment variables like [...]

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Definition: A batch file is a simple text file with a series of commands which are executed whenever the file is being run either manually with cmd.exe or automatically on a specific date and time.
Usually it is used to erase, move or archive files on a regular basis. The command lines are easy to learn [...]

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