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Desktop:
- A desktop consists of pictures or icons that show files, folders, and various
- types of documents such as letters, reports, and pictures.
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Application:
A program or group of programs designed for end users.
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Taskbar:
- A bar across the bottom of the screen that displays active programs and the
- start button
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Windows Explorer:
- A program in the program menu that lists the files and drives on a
- computer.
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My Computer:
An icon on the desktop that lists the files and drives on a computer.
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My Computer Window:
- This window displays the organization of the computer,
- including all of the disk drives.
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Web Filter:
A program that limits the websites that can be viewed.
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Antivirus Program:
A program that protects a computer from a computer virus.
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Recycle Bin:
- An icon on the Windows desktop that represents a directory where deleted
- files are temporarily stored.
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File Folder Hierarchy:
- A hierarchical system in computers is a file system, in which
- directories have files and subdirectories beneath them. Such a file organization is, in
- fact, called a hierarchical file system . To move up one level in the file hierarchy, click the
- up arrow button.
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Byte:
- An abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of holding a single
- character.
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Kilobyte:
- A kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, but it is often used loosely as a synonym for 1,000
- bytes. Kilobyte is frequently abbreviated as K, KiB, or KB.
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Megabyte:
- A megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. Megabyte is frequently abbreviated as M,
- MiB, or MB.
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Gigabyte:
- One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes. Gigabyte is often abbreviated as G,
- GiB, or GB.
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To summarize, some common file size units are:
- a) 1 KiB = 1,024 bytes
- b) 1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes
- c) 1 GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
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Search Criteria:
- To search for a file in My Computer, use the following criteria; all or part
- of the file name, a word or phrase in the file, the date when the file was modified.
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Wildcard:
- A special symbol that stands for one or more characters. The asterisk (*) is a
- wild card that stands for any combination of letters.
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Compressed File or Folder:
Storing data in a format that requires less space than usual.
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Clipboard:
- A special file or memory area (buffer) where data is stored temporarily
- before being copied to another location.
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Web Application:
- There are several applications called Web browsers that make it easy
- to access the World Wide Web; Two of the most popular being Netscape Navigator and
- Microsoft's Internet Explorer:
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C: Drive, also known as Hard Drive, and Fixed Drive:
- The internal computer mechanism
- that reads and writes data on a hard disk. A disk drive rotates the disk very fast and has
- one or more heads that read and write data.
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D: Drive:
- A drive that is usually reserved for your zip drive, but not always. Drive letters
- are assigned in a specific order.
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E: Drive:
- A drive that is usually reserved for your CD or DVD drive, but not always. Drive
- letters are assigned in a specific order.
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Emoticons:
- Emoticons are emotional graphics‐‐visual ways to express the way you feel
- when words alone just aren't enough. A smiley face ( ) is often used in text
- communications to convey an emotion with a message. Smilies are used in text
- messages in the same way voice changes and facial expressions are used in face‐to‐face
- or telephone conversation.
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Instant Messaging:
- Abbreviated IM, a type of communications service that enables you
- to create a kind of private chat room with another individual in order to communicate in
- real time over the Internet, analogous to a telephone conversation but using text‐based,
- not voice‐based, communication. Typically, the instant messaging system alerts you
- whenever somebody on your private list is online. You can then initiate a chat session
- with that particular individual.
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Real Time:
- Real time refers to events that occur at the same time that they would occur
- in real life. For example instant messaging and chats are real time.
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Object:
icon, folder, file, or hyperlink
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Left‐Click:
select object with mouse
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Double‐Click:
double left‐click that opens the object
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Right‐Click:
opens the shortcut menu for the clicked object
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Cursor:
picture of mouse pointer on the screen (possibly blinking)
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Drag and Drop:
moving one object into another object
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Menu:
list of options for an object
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Shortcut Menu:
menu of shortcut options for the object
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Shortcuts:
icons linked to objects
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Start Button:
Button at lower left-hand corner of desktop
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Start Menu:
- Menu accessed by the start button that lists programs, documents, control
- panel, run, etc.
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Drop‐down Menu:
list of menu choices below a menu heading
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Menu Bar:
- bar below the title bar in a program that organizes the program’s commands
- (ex. File, Edit, View, Window, Help, etc.)
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Program Menu:
lists the programs on a computer through the start button
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Open With:
- Right click any file in any window, and you should see Open With in the
- shortcut list. Click Open With and choose how you want to open your files. This is a
- valuable tool when you are trying to open a file for which you do not have the
- application on your computer.
-
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Window:
- An enclosed, rectangular area on a display screen. Most modern operating
- systems and applications have graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that let you divide your
- display into several windows . Within each window, you can run a different program or
- display different data.
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Title Bar:
- Bar across the top of a program that has the title of the program and file name
- written within it
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Size buttons:
- located in the title bar, contains minimize (‐) and restore down or
- maximize () buttons
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Dialog Box:
window that opens offering options before a command can be done
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Scroll Bar:
- vertical bar down the right‐hand side and horizontal bar across the bottom of
- the window that moves the window up/down/left/right
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Toolbar:
bar below a menu bar with icons for program commands
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Template:
- A preset document that contains the formatting needed. All you have to do
- is fill in the blanks.
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Document:
file created by a word processor (MSWord, Wordpad, Notepad)
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Format Document:
- To change the style, font, size, and look (bold, italic, underline) of
- words (text) in a document.
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Format Paragraph:
- Change the LOOK of a paragraph by changing the indention, spacing,
- etc., but NOT the content (information).
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Highlighting text:
- Selecting a lot of words by dragging the cursor over the words while
- holding the left mouse button
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Create:
Open an application and enter data.
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Save:
To copy data from a temporary area to a more permanent storage medium
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Edit:
- To make changes to the content of the document [but NOT the STYLE (text, style,
- font, size, and look etc).]
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File:
A collection of data or information that has a name, called the filename
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Print:
Allows you to send a document to a printer to get a hard copy (paper copy).
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Word wrap:
- The word processor automatically moves to the next line when you have
- filled one line with text, and it will readjust text if you change the margins.
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