My Network Places is a network browser available in Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows that displays the network connectivity of your computer. In the later versions, it got renamed to “Network.”
File sharing is a feature in windows that enables easy sharing of files and folders with other computers connected via a local network. It is straightforward, but very vulnerable and unsafe too.
Software applications developed by a person or a company rather than the original manufacturer or the owner of the website that offers it is called third-party apps.
Cache, aka web cache is a temporary storage location in the computer for storing the files that are downloaded by the browser. These files tend to take a lot of space in memory and are generally unnecessary.
Defrag, short for Defragging, refers to the maintenance task that shifts the position or the layout of the files on the hard drive. For faster access, drives should get defragmented regularly.
