2006-11-28 05:59:07 · 8 answers · asked by shahul 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
booting = A computer’s automatic start-up routine when it is switched on or reset; the boot program is normally stored on ROM and is responsible for loading the operating system; derived from the saying “picking the system up by its boot-straps”.
2006-11-28 06:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Paultech 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sort of crude terminology. It means to wake up the PC by giving it a kick in the ribs, so to speak. There is a hard boot - turning power on, and a soft boot - which is a restart.
2006-11-28 06:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that load an operating system.
So in short, booting is when the computer is setting itself up by running different programs so that the operating system will run efficiently.
2006-11-28 06:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Booting" in the process our computer goes through when you turn it on. The term comes from early computers that were so dumb that they had to load software from a disk to tell them how to turn themselves on. The joke was that they "had to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps". So the process of a computer starting itself came to be called "booting".
2006-11-28 06:03:08 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means turning on your computer and running the operating system... X
2006-11-28 06:01:19 · answer #5 · answered by xerocs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loading, initializing the required components to run software on hardware...
2006-11-28 06:01:25 · answer #6 · answered by Energizeer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what u mean
2006-11-28 06:01:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jodi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
getting it started or restarted
2006-11-28 06:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by zippo091 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋