Basic Computer Vocabulary

You have to do this to get access to a computer. You just type in a certain name or code.

• Backup

• Icon

• Desktop

• Logon

This is a picture or an image.

• Icon

• Virus

• Graphic

• Taskbar

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

Any information stored by a computer. It can be files, E-mails, video games, songs, pictures, etc.

• Homepage

• Memory

• Data

• Download

This is all the instructions for the computer, or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word, Skype, Chrome, and Windows.

• Data

• Software

• URL

• Cursor

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 an extra copy of a file or document.

• Drag and Drop

• Backup

• Download

• Browser

This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.

• Icon

• FAQ

• Homepage

• Graphic

Group of internet servers linking computers around the world.

• Browser

• Download

• URL

• World Wide Web