Glossary - W

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Warm Reboot:  The process of restarting the computer with software, or 
with the keyboard (e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del), typically without 
physically resetting any hardware devices.  See also Cold Reboot. 

White Space Character:  A character used to separate arguments on the 
command line.  The white space characters recognized by CMD.EXE are the 
space, tab, and comma. 

Wildcard:  A character ("*" or "?") used in a filename to specify the 
possibility that any single character ("?") or sequence of characters 
("*") can occur at that point in the actual name.  See also Extended 
Wildcard. 

Windows NT File System:  See NTFS.