I don't even know how to google for this forgotten term?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Peter Neilson wondered: <<[Removes head, bangs it on floor, replaces  
it--no improvement.]>>

Please note that this trick only works if you were born before ca.  
1990. After that, manufacturers started soldering the chips to the  
motherboard, and dropping it repeatedly no longer solves anything.  
(Historical trivia: I still fondly remember the days of dropping my  
Atari 520ST from about 6 inches above the desk to re-seat all the  
chips. It really was the officially recommended solution for certain  
problems... even had an official name, "the Atari drop". <g>)

<<What are the correct technical terms for a list with two columns,  
where you can select items from the inactive column and move them over  
to the active one? Or vice-versa.>>

If you're using a specific development environment and writing for a  
developer audience, ask one of your developers; they'll tell you the  
specific name of that feature in that environment. But if you're  
righting for a general audience, never rely on a technical term unless  
you're sure that they use that terminology as part of their daily  
discourse. (If they do, ask them.) Instead, focus on what the user  
will be doing (e.g., moving items from the inactive list to the active  
list or back again).

fwiw, this part of the interface is commonly referred to as the  
"Organizer", as in Word's templates and add-ins dialog box, so that  
might be a good term if you need to define a term for this part of  
your software. But again, focusing on the role might reveal a better  
name (activator/deactivator? loader/unloader?).

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