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Click the Restore Down button ( ). (It’s how the Maximize

button appears when the window is already maximized.)

Press + .

Tip

If the window isn’t maximized, then this keystroke minimizes it instead.

Press Alt+space, and then R.

Minimized

When you click a window’s Minimize button (−), the window gets out of
your way. It shrinks down into the form of a button on your taskbar at the

bottom of the screen. Minimizing a window is a great tactic when you want
to see what’s behind it. (Keyboard shortcut: + .)

You can bring the window back, of course (it’d be kind of a bummer

otherwise). Point (without clicking) to the taskbar button that represents that
window’s program. For example, if you minimized a File Explorer
(desktop) window, then point to the File Explorer icon. If you have a

touchscreen, just touch the program’s taskbar button.

On the taskbar, the program’s button sprouts handy thumbnail miniatures of
the minimized windows when you point to it without clicking. Select a

window’s thumbnail to restore it to full size. (You can read more about this
trick later in this chapter.)

Tip

There’s a keyboard trick that lets you minimize all your windows at once, revealing your entire
desktop. Just press +M (you can think of M as standing for “Minimize all”). Add the Shift key
(Shift+ +M) to bring them all back.

Restored