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Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

The Hardware Compatibility List is published by Microsoft for each of its operating systems and is updated on a monthly basis. There is a copy of the HCL on the Windows 2000 Professional CD, located in the Support folder and named Hcl.txt.

HCL:

See Hardware Compatibility List

Hotkeys

This option allows you to change the mapped out hotkeys within a session. This is useful when applications have hard coded hotkeys that cannot be changed. These hotkeys are set by default to not interfere with local client Windows hotkeys.

Hot-swappable components

Hot-swappable server components are available that can be changed out while the server is online, without interrupting service. Others can detect a failure and automatically swap over to a redundant component (automatic-swap). Components that are typically hot-swappable include hard disks, power supplies, and NICs.

HTML:

See HyperText Markup Language

HTTP:

See HyperText Transport Protocol

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

The format used to create documents viewed on the World Wide Web (WWW) by the use of tags (codes) embedded within the text.

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

HTTP is an Internet standard supporting World Wide Web (WWW) exchanges. By creating the definitions of Universal Resource Locators (URLs) and their retrieval usage throughout the Internet.

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