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Across
  1. 2. - a particular sort of lettering (on the screen or on paper). Arial is a font. Times New Roman is another.
  2. 3. - Memory is for the temporary storing of information while a computer is being used. See RAM, ROM and cache.
  3. 5. - an area that has an available wireless signal for Internet access (usually public)
  4. 9. - a system for communicating without wires over a computer network
  5. 10. -self-contained program or piece of software; an application, especially when downloadable to a mobile device
  6. 11. software that operates a PC and does various things, such as writing text (word-processing program), keeping accounts (accounts program) and drawing pictures (graphics program)
  7. 12. - International network of computers that you connect to by telephone line. Two popular services of the Internet are the World Wide Web and electronic mail.
  8. 14. - equipment for converting paper documents to electronic documents that can be used by a computer
  9. 16. device for a computer.
  10. 17. - a (small) defect or fault in a program
Down
  1. 1. boot up, boot disk - You boot (or boot up) your computer when you switch it on and wait while it prepares itself. Instructions for startup are given to the computer from the boot disk, which is usually the hard disk.
  2. 2. - All hard disks and floppy disks have to be electronically prepared for use by a process called formatting. Hard disks are pre-formatted by the computer manufacturer. If you buy a floppy disk that is not pre-formatted, you format it yourself, using a program that comes with your PC.
  3. 4. - a self-contained program or piece of software
  4. 6. - A board made of keys which, along with a mouse, serves as a primary
  5. 7. - A programmable electronic device for storing and processing data.
  6. 8. - Usually means the information (text, pictures, audio etc) that you create or share on a computer, as opposed to the programs that manipulate the data.
  7. 13. - a copy of files from a computer's hard disk, usually made on some external medium such as CD-ROM or flash drive. A backup is made in case the hard disk file(s) are erased or damaged.
  8. 15. - a small, unauthorized program that can damage a computer