Understanding computer language can be a difficult, mainly when a lot of words are so closely associated. Wallpaper and screen savers both use images, but that is where the similarities end.

• The wallpaper, also known as the desktop background faces the desktop surface. The screen saver is an animated image or set of images that shows after apathy for a certain amount of time to check the image on the screen from burning into the screen.

• The wallpaper is always on the desktop at the back your icons and opened windows. The screen saver only shows when you have not done anything on the computer in a while.

• A screen saver has progress with also animated images or a slide show of images. The wallpaper is a stationary type or picture.

• Your wallpaper uses utilize one image, while the screen saver uses a lot of images, also the same image moving around or several pictures in a slide show.