behind-the-screens
A play on the phrase "behind the scenes," it refers to programs that automatically run on your computer without need for your initiation or intervention. For example, when you launch a program, it does a variety of things to get the program up and running; those are behind-the-screens activities.
See also : DLL
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon
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