Page 80 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Ribbon. That massive, tall toolbar at the top of a File Explorer

window is the Ribbon. It’s a dense collection of controls for the
window you’re looking at. You can hide it, eliminate it, or learn to
value it, as described starting on Figure 2-5.

Navigation pane. Some form of this folder tree, a collapsible table
of contents for your entire PC, has been part of Windows for years.
It’s described on “Details Pane”.

Window edges. You can reshape a window by dragging any edge
—even the very top. Position your cursor over any border until it

turns into a double-headed arrow. Then drag inward or outward to
make the window smaller or bigger. To resize a full-screen
window, click the Restore Down ( ) button first.

Tip
You can resize a window in two dimensions at once by dragging one of its corners. It doesn’t have
to be a certain corner; all four work the same way.

Minimize, Maximize, Restore Down. These three window-

control buttons, at the top of every Windows window, cycle a
window among its three modes—minimized, maximized, and
restored, as described on the following pages.

Close button. Click the button to close the window. (Keyboard
shortcut: Press Alt+F4.)

Tip
Isn’t it cool how the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons are highlighted when your cursor
passes over them? That’s not a gimmick; it’s a cue that lets you know when the button is clickable.
You might not otherwise realize, for example, that you can close, minimize, or maximize a
background window without first bringing it forward. But when the background window’s Close
box glows red, you know.