Applet
Another name for a program that is running.
According to the internet, a wafe is a computer application in two parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program running as a separate process.
You write a program. A computer game is an application program running on one (or rarely more than one) computer. You have to design the game before writing the program.
The difference between an icon and active application is that an icon is a small image seen on a computer screen and it represents a program but is not running. An active application is one that is running in the foreground of a computer.
client/server application
It means that an application ( a software, a computer program) is not compatible (it doesn't work well or doesn't work at all)with the operating system running on a computer.
A software program is simply a program that is installed or running on a current computer. So yes, Google Chrome is a software program.
The CPU will always do processing. Even though there are no application programs running, the operating system is still running and the CPU will still have to process many system processes during the operation of the computer.
Disk Defragmenter is a very slow program on most computers so it is reccommended that you do not open programs while it is running, or else there is a high risk of crashing your computer. It makes disk defragmenter goes even slower, which would probablly result in crashing the computer.
The easiest method is to verify with the vendor that the application downloaded will work on Vista. You are running Vista on a 32bit computer the application might have a chance to work, you can make software applications run on Vista by setting the compatibility mode to an older version of Windows. If you are running Vista on a 64bit computer the application will not work at all. The application will need to be a 64bit application and vista compatible.
Because it is an application that is currently running on your computer.
installing a program is putting the files of the program in different directories to make it work on the computer. running a program is having the program work and not just putting it on the computer.