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crash-to-desktop

crash-to-desktop is the alternative form of crash to desktop.

Meaning of crash to desktop

Noun

crash to desktop (plural crashes to desktop)

  1. An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.
    • Five months in the making, this latest effort goes a long way in fixing various avionics, campaign, AI, multiplayer and crash-to-desktop issues (see the patch on this month's demo disk).c. 1999, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 181-185, Golden Empire Publications
    Synonyms:
    CTD

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Forms of crash-to-desktop

pluralcrashes-to-desktop

Questions about crash-to-desktop

What is crash-to-desktop the alternative form of?
Crash-to-desktop is the alternative form of crash to desktop.

Words near crash-to-desktop in the dictionary

  1. crash-landed
  2. crash-landing
  3. crash-landings
  4. crash-lands
  5. crash-proof
  6. crash-to-desktop
  7. crashability
  8. crashable
  9. Crashaw
  10. Crashaws
  11. crashdump

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