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Traditional desktop apps, on the other hand, still have advantages of their

own. They can be as complex as they ever were; they can have multiple
documents open at once, even on different screens; and they’re available
from many sources, not just the Microsoft Store.

It’s all kind of a headache that Microsoft brought upon itself; some apps,

like Evernote, are even available in both desktop and Microsoft Store
versions—both from the Microsoft Store! But you’ll get the hang of it.

The App Switcher: Alt+Tab

In its day, the concept of overlapping windows on the screen was brilliant,

innovative, and extremely effective. In that era before digital photos, digital
music, and the web, managing your windows was easy this way; after all,
you had only about three of them.

These days, however, managing all the open windows in all your programs

can be like herding cats. Fortunately, Windows offers some window-
shuffling tricks:

Use the taskbar. Clicking a button on the taskbar (“POWER
USERS’ CLINIC The Little Filtering Calendar”) makes the

corresponding program pop to the front.

Click the window. You can also bring any window forward by

clicking any visible part of it.