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Usually it uses standard settings, such as, no Aero, low resolution if video driver was not found and so on.
Like a normal desktop computer. Very big!
What your icons are displayed on when you first start up.
There never was such a company!
Yes it is.
The Apollo Guidance Computer, which took us to the moon was an embedded computer long before any desktop computer existed. There were missile guidance computers before that (e.g. Bomark & Minuteman I) that were embedded.
five lines of history of desktop
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The proper term would be "default settings". This is the settings on your computer when you first buy it.
The first step is to hover the mouse over a blank area on the desktop screen. Once there, right-clicking the mouse will bring up a menu, one option of which will be "Personalize". From here, the features and appearance of the desktop can be changed. A picture can also be set as the desktop's background by right-clicking the picture and selecting the option "Set as desktop background".
The first desktop personal computer was the Programma 101. It was invented by Pier Giorgio Perotto and was produced by Olivetti company.
The first desktop computer was probably the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer in 1965. It came in both desktop & rackmount versions. DEC was in Maynard, Massachusetts.