The letter Q: A Glossary of Windows Terms
Quality of Service (QoS) – A set of techniques and protocols for managing network services for a large corporation or business.
Quark – The company that makes QuarkXpress, which is a popular page layout program.
Quattro – The original name applied to Microsoft’s Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server is a server product created for home users for the purpose of backing up data and managing users.
Query – To request information from a database or to sort database results.
Queue – Often used to define documents in a list waiting to be printed. As print requests are sent to the printer, the printer software puts them in a queue and prints them in order (barring any special rights or permissions applied to the creator of those documents).
Queue Element – An item in a queue, such as a message waiting to be sent or a document waiting to be printed.
Quick Launch – An area of the Taskbar that can be enabled to access programs on a Windows-based PC quickly. You can drag and drop icons from the Start menu or Desktop to the Quick Launch area to add them.
Quick Tabs – A feature of Internet Explorer that allows you to see all open tabs in a single window. Quick tabs offers thumbnails of open tabs which can be clicked on to return to the tab quickly.
QuickTime – A free application created by Apple for playing and managing multimedia data including but not limited to movies and video.
QuickTime Pro – An upgrade to QuickTime, but not a free one. QuickTime Pro offers additional features and video capabilities.
Quick Views – In various Windows applications, a quick view menu offers a fast and easy way to change the view in a window. Often, you’ll change between thumbnails, lists, details, etc.
Quiet Mode – In Vista, Quiet Mode is offered as a way to silence User Account Control without actually turning it off. With Quiet Mode, administrators are not prompted (when logged on as administrators) to click Continue to verify a system change.
QWERTY – A term used to describe a specific type of keyboard. QWERTY describes the layout of the keys on the top left row of all standard keyboards.
This post is part of the series: Windows Glossary
Learn the definitions for the terms used in the Bright Hub Windows Channel. This series starts with the letter “A” and runs all the way to “Z”.
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “A”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “B”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “C”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “D”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “E”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “F”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “G”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “H”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “I”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “J” and “K”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “L”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “M”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “N”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “O”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “P”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “Q”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “R”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “S”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “U and V”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “W”
- A Glossary of Windows Terms – “X”, “Y”, and “Z”