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Born on 5 September 1888, he was a philosopher and teacher before becoming the first Vice President and the second President of India, and when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that it be kept as Teachers' Day instead.

Chaitya Bhoomi, at Dadar on the sea front in Mumbai, is the place where Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was cremated after his death on 6 December 1956, and his followers gather there in lakhs on Mahaparinirvan Diwas.

Shakti Sthal, the place of power, is the samadhi of Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated on 31 October 1984, and Vir Bhumi, the land of the brave, is the samadhi of Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated on 21 May 1991, a day now observed as Anti-Terrorism Day.

Patel was born on 31 October 1875 and, as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, brought the princely states into the Indian Union, which is why his birthday is observed as National Unity Day; the Statue of Unity at Kevadia in Gujarat, 182 metres high, was inaugurated on…

Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration with Pakistan, and his samadhi in Delhi is named Vijay Ghat after the victory of 1965.

The chief architect of the Indian Constitution died on 6 December 1956, and the day is observed as Mahaparinirvan Diwas, a Buddhist term for the final release, since he had embraced Buddhism shortly before his death.

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and was affectionately called Chacha Nehru by children, so his birth anniversary is observed as Children's Day in India, with programmes in schools across the country.

Shanti Van, meaning the forest of peace, is the memorial on the bank of the Yamuna where the first Prime Minister of India was cremated after his death on 27 May 1964.

FAT32 records the size of a file in a thirty-two bit field, so the largest single file it can hold is one byte short of four gigabytes; a large film or disk image therefore cannot be copied to a FAT32 drive even when free space is plenty.

Task Manager lists the running applications and background processes with the processor, memory and disk they are using, and it is the tool used to end a program that has stopped responding.

Searching for star dot docx lists every Word document in the folder, and searching for rep star lists every name beginning with those three letters, because the asterisk stands for any sequence of characters including none at all.

The Recycle Bin is maintained for the fixed drives of the computer; removable media such as pen drives and memory cards, and files deleted over a network drive, have no Recycle Bin, so Windows warns that the file will be deleted permanently.

The taskbar holds the Start button, the search box, the buttons of pinned and running programs, and at its right the notification area or system tray with the clock, network and volume icons.

The letter E stands for Explorer, and this combination opens File Explorer, earlier called Windows Explorer, which is the program used to browse drives, folders and files.

The clipboard is the area of main memory in which Windows keeps whatever was last cut or copied, so that it can be pasted into the same program or another one; since it lives in volatile memory, its contents are lost when the computer is shut down or restarted.

Because a folder, also called a directory, can contain further folders, the storage of a drive takes the shape of a tree, and a folder held within another is its subdirectory or subfolder.

Windows reserves nine characters for paths, drives and wildcards and will not accept them in a file name: the backslash, the forward slash, the colon, the asterisk, the question mark, the double quotation mark, the less than and greater than signs, and the vertical bar.

NTFS was introduced with Windows NT and is now the normal file system for the disk on which Windows itself is installed, because it supports file and folder permissions, encryption, compression, journaling that helps recovery after a crash, and very large volumes and files.

The Delete key alone moves a file from the hard disk to the Recycle Bin, where it occupies space until the Bin is emptied and from where it can be restored.

Selecting a file in File Explorer and pressing F2 puts its name into edit mode, so the new name can be typed directly; the same result is got by right-clicking and choosing Rename.