Hacker – a person who tries to break into another person’s computer or network.
Hard disk – the storage device inside a computer tower or laptop where data is permanently stored (or at least until it is deleted and written over).
Hardware – a generic term for devices you purchase and connect to a PC such as digital cameras, printers, scanners, and the like.
Hardware Driver – software that allows a hardware device and the PC to communicate.
Hardware Profile – in Windows XP, a specific profile created by a user to tell Windows what hardware options to enable when Windows is booted. Users may have profiles for docked and undocked laptops, for instance.
High Definition Multi-Media Interface (HDMI) – the digital interface used to transmit high definition audio and video using a single cable.
History – a person’s web “footprint”, in Windows, History is a list of web sites a user has visited.
Home Page – a page that opens automatically when a web browser is opened. A Home page can also be the first page a user sees when accessing a web page in a domain.
Home Server – an offering from Microsoft for home users that allows them to set up a personal server for storing and backing up data on their local network.
Host – a computer on a network that offers services or resources to other computers on the network. The term is often used to denote a computer being remotely accessed by another off-site.
Hotspot – a location where free wireless access to the Internet is available. Often these locations are in coffee shops, airports, and libraries.
Hub – a small network device that joins computers together for the purpose of sharing data among them. Of hubs, switches, routers, and gateways, hubs are the least sophisticated.
Hyperlink – a word, phrase, or image you can click in a web page to move to another area of the web site or another web site.
Hypertext Markup Language – the language used on the Internet to create web pages.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) – the protocol for moving HTML files across the Internet.
