компонент(Any raw material, ingredient, part or item used to assemble a subassembly, finished good, or used as part of a kit; A part of the Windows operating system that specifies the files, resources, and settings for a specific Windows feature, or part of a Windows feature. Some components include Windows unattended installation settings, which can be used by OEMs and corporations for customization; An object that is reusable and can interact with other objects. Note: Every control is a component, but not every component is a control; In general, a modular unit of code that acts as part of a larger system or structure. For COM, a unit of code built to deliver a well-specified set of services through well-specified interfaces. A component provides an object that a client requests at runtime)
сведения о системе(в Windows 98 — информационное средство для опытных пользователей, которое собирает разнообразные технические данные об аппаратном и программном обеспечении системы в один удобный отчёт, этот отчёт можно просмотреть на экране, распечатать его на принтере или переслать в текстовый файл, чтобы добавить затем к факсимильному сообщению или сообщению электронной почты); оснастка в Windows 2000, входящая в узел System Tools(содержит исчерпывающую информацию об аппаратном обеспечении компьютера, системных компонентах и программной среде)
A general term that is used to mean one part of something more complex(For example, a computer system may be a component of an IT service, or an application may be a component of a release unit. Components are co-operating packages of executable software that make their services available through defined interfaces. Components used in developing systems may be commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) or may be purposely built. However, the goal of component-based development is to ultimately use as many pre-developed, pretested components as possible)