Basic Computer Vocabulary

Software that was written to bad stuff to your computer.

• World Wide Web

• Icon

• Virus

• SPAM

This is the screen that appears if you are not browsing the Internet, reading a file, playing a game or have any windows open. Your icons are on this screen.

• Desktop

• Browser

• Data

• Homepage

This is where the data is that a computer stores. The more of this, the more data the computer can do and hold.

• Browser

• Memory

• Homepage

• World Wide Web

This is the process where you copy something from another computer or website to your computer.

• Download

• Right Click

• Task Bar

• Cursor

Usually a small arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse. It is used to make a selection. Sometimes it is flashing and tells you where your typing will start.

• Cursor

• Right Click

• Icon

• Drag and Drop

To do this, you click on something and hold the button down, then move the object you clicked on and will leave it where you let go of the button.

• Right click

• Drag and Drop

• Cursor

• Logon

This is the first page you see when you open your browser.

• Desktop

• Homepage

• World Wide Web

• Taskbar

The address of documents, web pages and resources on the internet.

• Software

• URL

• Download

• Taskbar

A computer is an electronic device for storing and processing data.

• True
• False

It stores all your data.

• network drive

• hard drive

• file manager