Active Desktop: a feature you use to make web pages your desktop wallpaper
ActiveX: a Microsoft technology that provides interactive content on the web pages.
Address: the location of a file. You can use address to find files on the internet or your computer. Internet address is known as URLs
Address Bar: a method of opening files that is on the internet or your computer. When you type an address in address bar, you open file at that address
AutoCompleate: a feature in the address bar. When you begin typing previously used address, this feature finishes it as you type.
Bitmap: a type of file used for pictures.
Browse: to navigate the internet or the content of your computer.
Browser: an application program used to access the internet or files on your computer.
Cache: a folder that temporarily stores files on your computer.
CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read-Only Memory): a high capacity form of storage, also called a high compact disk or CD. You must have the CD-ROM to use these disks. CD-ROM don’t allow user to store information
Client: Computers that connect to another central computer called server. A client computer uses files, printers and other resources shared by the server
Content Provider: a business that uses the internet to supply you with information such as news, weather, business reports, and entertainment.
Control Pane: a group of tools you use to change hardware and software settings in your computer.
Default: predefined settings. For example the double-click option is a default setting.
Defragmentation: the process of rewriting a file to adjacent sections of a hard disk. Over time, parts of the same files can become fragmented (spread over different areas on the hard disk. Fragmentation causes slower disk speed.
Desktop: your workspace on the computer screen.
Dialog Box: a window in which you provide information to a program.
Dial-Up Network: a feature that allows you to use a phone line and modem to connect to another computer
Disk Drive: hardware on which you can store files. Disk drives are assigned with latter.
Document: a file you create when your work in a program. Example of document include word-processor file, spreadsheet, and bitmap
Domain: a group of networked computer that share information and resources.
Download: to copy files from one computer to another computer by using a modem or network connection. For example download files from the web to your hard disk.
Driver: software that the operating system uses to control specific piece of hardware.
DVD: a high-capacity compact disc. This disc can store enough data for a full-length movie. You must have a DVD disc driver or player to use DVD.
E-mail: electronic massage sent over the internet or a network. E-mail can contain both text and files.
Explorer Bar: a pane that open on the left side of windows, such as when you click the Search button or Favorite button.
Favorite: a link to favorite web page.
File: a program or document stored on a disk.
File Allocated Table (FAT): a method used by operating system to keep track of where files are stored on a hard disk
File System: the overall structure in which files are named, stored, and organized by the operating system.
Folder: a location in which you can store file and other folder.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): the language used to create web pages.
Home Page: the starting page of a website.
Icon: a picture representing a program, disk drive, file, folder, or other items.
Internet: a worldwide network of computers. If you have access to the internet, you can retrieve millions of sources, including school, governments, business, and individual.
Internet Service Provider (ISP): a company or organization that provides internet access, usually for fee.
Intranet: a private network within an organization. An intranet can be connected to the internet.
Jump: to move from one age to another.
LAN (Local Area Network): connection of two or more computer within a location.
Link: text or a picture that you click to jump from one location to another. The mouse pointer usually changes to hand when positioned over a link.
Log On: to identify yourself and gain access to a computer.
Menu: a list of commands that appears at the top of most windows.
Modem: hardware that transmits data from one computer to another, often across phone lines.
Mouse Pointer: an icon, typically an arrow that appears on your screen and is controlled by the movement of mouse.
Multimedia: any combination of text, pictures, sound, and video.
My Computer: a feature you can use to manage a file stored on your computer or network drives.
Network: two or more connected computers. Network used for sharing resources such as document, programs, and printers.
Network Card: hardware that you insert in a computer to connect the computer to a network.
Offline: not connected to a network or internet.
Offline Favorite: a link that opens a favorite web page without connecting to the internet.
Offline Reading: to view a web page without being connected to the internet.
Online Service: an internet service that provides a wide range of content to it subscribers, including internet access.
Operating System: software that controls the computer programs and hardware.
Path: the means of navigating to a specific location on a computer or network.
Profile: a location of windows settings for a specific user. On the internet is a location that contains detailed information about the user.
Program: a group of instruction your computer uses to perform specific task.
Protocol: a set of rules computer use to communicate with each other over the network.
Refresh: to display the content of a web page or window.
Remote User: a person who connect to a network by using a modem and Dial-Up networking.
Right-Click: to click an item using the secondary mouse button. You can display a shortcut menu by right-click an item.
Search Engine: a tool that searches the web for information you want to find.
Server: a computer that controls users’ access to a network. The server stores and control shared resources that can be used by other computers (client) on the network.
Shortcut: an icon that link to a file or folder.
Shortcut Menu: then menu that appears when your right-click an object.
Shut Down: to use the shortcut command, which prepares the computer to be turned off or restarted.
Synchronize: with regard to offline favorites, to ensure that the files on your hard disk are the latest version.
Taskbar: a tool you use to open programs and navigate your computer usually positioned at the button of your screen.
Toolbar: a set of button you click to perform common task.
ToolTip: a brief description of a screen object. ToolTip appears when you position your mouse pointer over object.
Universal Serial Bus (USB): a hardware standard for external device connection (such as a mouse, modems, game controllers, and keyboards).
VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language): a language used to create 3-D interactive web graphics, similar to those found in some video games, where the user can move around within a graphic image and interact with object.
Wallpaper: the background on your desktop.
Web Page: a location on the World Wide Web, usually part of a website.
Web Site: group of related Web pages.
Web Style: a desktop display option
Window: the rectangular portion of your screen that displays an open program or the content of a folder or disk.
Windows Explorer: a feature you can use to view the content of your computer and network drives in a hierarchical structure.
Wizard: a tool that walk you through the steps of complex task.
Workgroup: a set of networked computers that typically share the same resources, such as printer.
World Wide Web (Web): the graphical multimedia portion of the internet. The web comprise of millions of web pages.
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