A Buffer refers to the using a part of your computer’s memory to relieve the burden on a specific component, such as your keyboard or printer. For example, if you press all of the keys on your keyboard at once, on a slow computer, the letters would appear on the screen slower than you’ve typed them. Since the computer isn’t able to quickly process all keys pressed, the keys you’ve pressed are actually stored in a buffer and fed to the computer at a slower rate it can handle. This way, your keystrokes aren’t actually lost. Note that your computer will beep when the buffer becomes full, telling you keys pressed thereafter will be forgotten. Buffer is similar to Cache.
Top Reasons To Wipe Away Your Internet History
- Information about all the web sites you have visited is stored on your computer!
- Every image you have ever viewed, sent or received over the Internet is stored on your system!
- There is a record of every program that you have ever downloaded or used on your hard drive!
- Pressing the delete button and emptying the recycle bin does NOT completely delete your files!
- Cleaning your History Files improves the speed of your computer and frees valuable disk space!
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