Acronyms in IObit
Some abbreviations/Acronyms used in IObit Products
(Best course of action is to write out the acronym at least first time you use it in every thread)
AFAIC As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK As far as I know
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AKA Also Known As
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Anti-Spyware
ASAP Automatic Switching And Processing
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASC Advanced System Care
ATM Adobe Type Manager
atm at the moment
ATP Analyze Tool Pack
AV Anti-Virus
AWC Advanced Windows Care (Now called Advanced System Care)
BBS Bulletin Board System, Bios Boot Specification
BBcode Bulletin Board Code (e.g. a smiley or brackets or another possibility)
BHO Browser Helper Object
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service
BMP BitMaP (File Format), Batch Message Processing, Basic Multilingual Plane
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death
BT Bus Terminator, Bit Test
BTW By The Way
BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server
BW BandWidth (digital) measured in bits per second (binary), Byte = 8 bit
BW BandWidth (frequency) measured in Hertz - usually KHz/MHz/GHz (cycles per second)
CCI Completely Clean Install (My own suggestion
)
clsid class identifier
CMD Command
COM COMmand File extension, Component Object Model, COMmunication port (Serial port)
CP Control Panel (IObit Forum)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CXI Common X-windows Interface
DAC Device Access Code, Digital to Analog Converter, Discretionary Access/Data Acquisition Control
DAP Download Accelerator Plus, Data Access Page, Directory Access Protocol, Dynamic Application Partitioning
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DIY Do It Yourself
DIVx Digital Videoexpress
DLL Dynamic Link Library, Dynamic Link Loader
DM Desktop or Document Management, Disconnect Mode, Distributed Memory, Debugger Module
DNS Domain Name System, Digital Nervous System
DOG Digital Original Gene
DOS Disk Operating System
DPI Dots Per Inch (Resolution Measurement), Distributed Protocol Interface, Digital Phone Interface
DSL Digital Subscriber Line, Dialogue Scripting/Dynamic Simulation Language, Distributed Service Logic
DVD Digital Versatile Disk, Digital Video Disk
EDGE Enhanced Data-rate for Gsm Evolution
ENIS European Network (of) Innovative Schools
EULA End User License Agreement
FAT File Allocation Table
FiOS Fiber Optic Service
fps frames per second
FWIW For What It's Worth
fx. for example
FYI For Your Information
GB Giga Bytes (2^30 bytes or sometimes 10^9 bytes), Game_Booster (IObit)
GIF Graphical Interchange File Format
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile communications, Global Shared Memory
GUI Graphical User Interface
HD Hard Disk, Hard Density
HIPS Host Intrusion Prevention System
HKCU Handle to Registry Key Current User
Hz Hertz - electromagnetic wave (one cycle per second) K=1000, M=million, G=10^9
IAT Intelligent Agent Technology, Information Access Technology, Internet Appliance Toolkit, Import Address Table
ICQ I Seek You (communication program)
ID IDentifier
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics, Integrated Development Environment, Interactive Design/Engineering/Enhancement
IE Internet Explorer
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IObit Intelligently Optimized bit(s) (my own suggestion
)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
IP Internet Protocol, Information Provider, Instruction Pointer
ISP Internet Service Provider
JPE Jump if Parity Even
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPG JPeG File extension
KB Kilo Bytes (2^10 bytes or sometimes10^3 bytes), Knowledge Base
LAN Local Access or Area Network
LNG Language (File extension)
LOL Laughing Out Loud, Lots Of Love
LUI Local User Interface, Language User Interface (speech recognition technology), Logical User Identifier
LV Logical Volume, Low Voltage
MAC MACro File extension, Mandatory Access Control, Move Add Change
MAC Address Media Access Control Address
MAD Microsoft Active Directory, Mutual Assured Destruction
MB Mega Bytes (2^20 bytes or sometimes10^6 bytes)
MBR Master Boot Record
MFT Master File Table
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMX MultiMedia eXtensions
MODEM MOdulator/DEModulator
MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group
MPG Motion Picture (expert) Group
MRU Most Recently Used, Maximum Receive Unit
MSG Message (.msg - message file extention)
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MUI Multimedia User Interface
NA Not Applicable, Not Available
nbsp non-breaking space (hard space) (Alt+0160)
NTFS New Technology File System
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OMG Object Management Group
OMG Oh My God
OP Original Poster
OS Operating System
OSI Open Systems Interconnection, Open Source Initiative
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTT Over The Top
PAE Physical Address Extension
PC Personal Computer, Printed Circuit, Program Counter
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDF Portable Document Format, Printer Description File, Processor Defined Function
PE Phase Encoding, Portable Executable file format, Parity Error or Even
PID Personal IDentifier, Process or Product IDentifier, Proportional Integral Derivative
PM Private Message (IObit Forum)
PNG Portable Network Graphics File format
PSD PhotoShop Drawing File extension, Postal Security Device, Programmer's Supplementary Documents
PUP Potentially Unwanted Program
QT Quick Time
QUT Questionable User Terminology (My own suggestion
)
RAD Rapid Access Disk, Rapid Application Development
RAM Random Access Memory
RAR Resource Adapters aRchive (compression file format)
RC Release Candidate
RMW Read Modify Write
rtl Raster Transfer Language, Register Transfer Language or Transistor Logic, Run Time Library
RZ Return to Zero
SA Source Address, Service Agent, Security Association
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SFC System File Checker
SID Security IDentifier, Serial Input Data, System or Station IDentification
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMBIOS System Management Basic Input Output System
SOA Service Oriented Architecture, Start Of Authority
SOHO Small Office/Home Office
SP Service Pack, Stack Pointer, Sequence or SignalProcessor
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, Synthesizer Specification Language
TAI Threat Analysis Index
TAI Think About It
TC Test Control, Transmission Control or Convergence, Technical Committee
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, Tape-Carrier Package
THX Thanks, Thank you
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIF Tagged Image File extension
TM Traffic Management, Transaction Manager or Monitor, Transmission and Multiplexing
TNT The News Toolkit, TriNitroToluene
TTL Time To Live, Transistor-Transistor Logic
TxIA Thanks In Advance
TYIA Thank You In Advance
UAC Universal Access Control, User Access Control
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UI User Interface, Unix International
UPNP Universal Plug aNd Play
UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
WDK Windows Development Kit
WFP Windows File Protection
WLAN Wide Local Access or Area Network
WOT Web Of Trust
WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
xDSL (all types of) Digital Subscriber Line
XML eXtensible Markup Language
ZAC Z's Are Calling, (the "sack's" are calling -time for bed)
ZIP Compression file format, Zigzag Inline Package, Zone Improvement Plan Postal code
x^y means x raised to the power of y where y is the exponent
Please edit and expand as you see fit
RMW (Read Modify Write)
I have made chat abbreviations blue
Cheers
solbjerg
Some abbreviations/Acronyms used in IObit Products
(Best course of action is to write out the acronym at least first time you use it in every thread)
AFAIC As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK As far as I know
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AKA Also Known As
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
AS Anti-Spyware
ASAP Automatic Switching And Processing
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASC Advanced System Care
ATM Adobe Type Manager
atm at the moment
ATP Analyze Tool Pack
AV Anti-Virus
AWC Advanced Windows Care (Now called Advanced System Care)
BBS Bulletin Board System, Bios Boot Specification
BBcode Bulletin Board Code (e.g. a smiley or brackets or another possibility)
BHO Browser Helper Object
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service
BMP BitMaP (File Format), Batch Message Processing, Basic Multilingual Plane
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death
BT Bus Terminator, Bit Test
BTW By The Way
BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server
BW BandWidth (digital) measured in bits per second (binary), Byte = 8 bit
BW BandWidth (frequency) measured in Hertz - usually KHz/MHz/GHz (cycles per second)
CCI Completely Clean Install (My own suggestion

clsid class identifier
CMD Command
COM COMmand File extension, Component Object Model, COMmunication port (Serial port)
CP Control Panel (IObit Forum)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CXI Common X-windows Interface
DAC Device Access Code, Digital to Analog Converter, Discretionary Access/Data Acquisition Control
DAP Download Accelerator Plus, Data Access Page, Directory Access Protocol, Dynamic Application Partitioning
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DIY Do It Yourself
DIVx Digital Videoexpress
DLL Dynamic Link Library, Dynamic Link Loader
DM Desktop or Document Management, Disconnect Mode, Distributed Memory, Debugger Module
DNS Domain Name System, Digital Nervous System
DOG Digital Original Gene
DOS Disk Operating System
DPI Dots Per Inch (Resolution Measurement), Distributed Protocol Interface, Digital Phone Interface
DSL Digital Subscriber Line, Dialogue Scripting/Dynamic Simulation Language, Distributed Service Logic
DVD Digital Versatile Disk, Digital Video Disk
EDGE Enhanced Data-rate for Gsm Evolution
ENIS European Network (of) Innovative Schools

EULA End User License Agreement
FAT File Allocation Table
FiOS Fiber Optic Service
fps frames per second
FWIW For What It's Worth
fx. for example
FYI For Your Information
GB Giga Bytes (2^30 bytes or sometimes 10^9 bytes), Game_Booster (IObit)
GIF Graphical Interchange File Format
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile communications, Global Shared Memory
GUI Graphical User Interface
HD Hard Disk, Hard Density
HIPS Host Intrusion Prevention System
HKCU Handle to Registry Key Current User
Hz Hertz - electromagnetic wave (one cycle per second) K=1000, M=million, G=10^9
IAT Intelligent Agent Technology, Information Access Technology, Internet Appliance Toolkit, Import Address Table
ICQ I Seek You (communication program)
ID IDentifier
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics, Integrated Development Environment, Interactive Design/Engineering/Enhancement
IE Internet Explorer
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IObit Intelligently Optimized bit(s) (my own suggestion

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
IP Internet Protocol, Information Provider, Instruction Pointer
ISP Internet Service Provider
JPE Jump if Parity Even
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPG JPeG File extension
KB Kilo Bytes (2^10 bytes or sometimes10^3 bytes), Knowledge Base
LAN Local Access or Area Network
LNG Language (File extension)
LOL Laughing Out Loud, Lots Of Love
LUI Local User Interface, Language User Interface (speech recognition technology), Logical User Identifier
LV Logical Volume, Low Voltage
MAC MACro File extension, Mandatory Access Control, Move Add Change
MAC Address Media Access Control Address
MAD Microsoft Active Directory, Mutual Assured Destruction
MB Mega Bytes (2^20 bytes or sometimes10^6 bytes)
MBR Master Boot Record
MFT Master File Table
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMX MultiMedia eXtensions
MODEM MOdulator/DEModulator
MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group
MPG Motion Picture (expert) Group
MRU Most Recently Used, Maximum Receive Unit
MSG Message (.msg - message file extention)
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MUI Multimedia User Interface
NA Not Applicable, Not Available
nbsp non-breaking space (hard space) (Alt+0160)
NTFS New Technology File System
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OMG Object Management Group
OMG Oh My God
OP Original Poster
OS Operating System
OSI Open Systems Interconnection, Open Source Initiative
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTT Over The Top
PAE Physical Address Extension
PC Personal Computer, Printed Circuit, Program Counter
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDF Portable Document Format, Printer Description File, Processor Defined Function
PE Phase Encoding, Portable Executable file format, Parity Error or Even
PID Personal IDentifier, Process or Product IDentifier, Proportional Integral Derivative
PM Private Message (IObit Forum)
PNG Portable Network Graphics File format
PSD PhotoShop Drawing File extension, Postal Security Device, Programmer's Supplementary Documents
PUP Potentially Unwanted Program
QT Quick Time
QUT Questionable User Terminology (My own suggestion

RAD Rapid Access Disk, Rapid Application Development
RAM Random Access Memory
RAR Resource Adapters aRchive (compression file format)
RC Release Candidate
RMW Read Modify Write
rtl Raster Transfer Language, Register Transfer Language or Transistor Logic, Run Time Library
RZ Return to Zero
SA Source Address, Service Agent, Security Association
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SFC System File Checker
SID Security IDentifier, Serial Input Data, System or Station IDentification
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMBIOS System Management Basic Input Output System
SOA Service Oriented Architecture, Start Of Authority
SOHO Small Office/Home Office
SP Service Pack, Stack Pointer, Sequence or SignalProcessor
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, Synthesizer Specification Language
TAI Threat Analysis Index
TAI Think About It
TC Test Control, Transmission Control or Convergence, Technical Committee
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, Tape-Carrier Package
THX Thanks, Thank you
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIF Tagged Image File extension
TM Traffic Management, Transaction Manager or Monitor, Transmission and Multiplexing
TNT The News Toolkit, TriNitroToluene
TTL Time To Live, Transistor-Transistor Logic
TxIA Thanks In Advance
TYIA Thank You In Advance
UAC Universal Access Control, User Access Control
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UI User Interface, Unix International
UPNP Universal Plug aNd Play
UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
WDK Windows Development Kit
WFP Windows File Protection
WLAN Wide Local Access or Area Network
WOT Web Of Trust
WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
xDSL (all types of) Digital Subscriber Line
XML eXtensible Markup Language
ZAC Z's Are Calling, (the "sack's" are calling -time for bed)
ZIP Compression file format, Zigzag Inline Package, Zone Improvement Plan Postal code
x^y means x raised to the power of y where y is the exponent
Please edit and expand as you see fit
RMW (Read Modify Write)
I have made chat abbreviations blue
Cheers
solbjerg
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