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Scroll bar. A scroll bar appears on the right side or bottom of the

window if the window isn’t large enough to show all its contents.

Window Management

Windows 10 carries on the window-stunt tradition of previous versions:
special shortcuts expressly designed for managing windows. Most of them
involve some clever mouse gestures—special dragging techniques. Thanks

to those mouse movements and the slick animations you get in response,
goofing around with your windows may become the new Solitaire.

Sizing Windows

A Windows window can cycle among three altered states.

Maximized

A maximized window is one that fills the screen, edge to edge, so you can’t
see anything behind it. It gets that way when you do one of these things:

Click its Maximize button ( ).

Double-click the title bar.

Drag the window up against the top of the screen.

Press + .

Maximizing the window is an ideal arrangement when you’re surfing the
web or working on a document for hours at a stretch, since the largest
possible window means the least possible scrolling.

Once you’ve maximized a window, you can restore it to its usual, free-
floating state in any of these ways:

Drag the window away from the top edge of the screen.

Double-click the title bar.