| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | bar code scanner | 条码扫描器 (An optical device that uses a laser beam to read and interpret bar codes, such as the Universal Product Codes, found on grocery products and other retail items) |
| comp., MS | face scanner | 面部扫描仪 (A biometric sensor that analyses data points on your face to recognize or authenticate identity) |
| comp., MS | flatbed scanner | 平板扫描仪 (A scanner with a flat, transparent surface that holds the image to be scanned, generally a book or other paper document. A scan head below the surface moves across the image. Some flatbed scanners can also reproduce transparent media, such as slides) |
| comp., MS | handheld scanner | 手持式扫描仪 (A type of scanner used as follows: the user passes the scan head, contained within a handheld unit, over the medium being scanned, such as a piece of paper) |
| comp., MS | language service scanner | 语言服务扫描器 (A component that is used to identify types of tokens in source code. This information is used for syntax highlighting and for quickly identifying token types that can trigger other operations, for example, brace matching) |
| comp., MS | malware scanner | 恶意软件扫描仪 (Software used to scan for and eradicate malicious software) |
| comp., MS | network scanner | 网络扫描仪 (A scanner that is not connected directly to a computer, but is instead connected directly to a network through a wired or wireless connection) |
| comp., MS | Proactive Scanner | 主动式扫描程序 (An automated proactive scan that triggers when NTFS detects a corruption. The scan is equivalent to the scan phase of chkdsk and finds and logs all corruptions to an internal file. This scan runs during maintenance hours, can be triggered from the Explorer, or manually run from a command line. When this scan is running in the background, some NTFS operations may be blocked) |
| comp., MS | retinal scanner | 视网膜扫描仪 (A biometric sensor that analyses your eye retina to recognize or authenticate identity) |
| comp., MS | sheet-fed scanner | 馈纸式扫描仪 (A scanner with a single-sheet feed mechanism, in which sheets of paper are pulled in by the scanner and scanned as they pass over a stationary scanning mechanism. Sheet-fed scanners allow for automatic scanning of multiple-sheet documents) |
| comp., MS | virus scanner | 病毒扫描程序 (Software used to scan for and eradicate computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses) |
| comp., MS | Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner | Windows Live OneCare 安全扫描程序 (The free online on-demand tool that conducts three types of scans: the protection scan checks for and removes things like viruses and malware; the clean-up scan checks the hard disk for unnecessary files and helps users decide which ones they can safely remove, and also clears the computer's registry of orphaned data; the tune-up scan helps improve the computer's performance by defragmenting the hard disk) |