Managing Windows by Using the Taskbar
The windows of multiple open programs tend to overlap or hide one another, making them hard to tell apart or find. When you launch a program, its button appears on the taskbar; you can use the taskbar to manage open programs and switch among windows easily.To view several windows at the same time, you can drag and resize them or use taskbar controls to tile them on your desktop. To clear your desktop, you can minimize all windows to taskbar buttons.To activate a window: Click the taskbar button representing that window (Figure 2.23 ).
Figure 2.23. Clicking a window's toolbar button brings the window to the top of the pile, if it happens to be hidden by other windows.

Chapter 6.Some programsusually, programs that run all the timehave notification-area icons (covered later in this chapter) instead of taskbar buttons.
Figure 2.24. Among other things, the control menu lets you close a window, sometimes without first restoring it.

Figure 2.25. Showing the desktop even minimizes dialog boxes (which don't appear as taskbar buttons).

To restore minimized windows: Right-click an empty area on the taskbar; then choose Undo Minimize All.or Click the desktop icon on the Quick Launch toolbar.or Press Windows logo key+D or Windows logo key+Shift+M.
To arrange windows on your desktop:
1. Minimize the windows that you don't want arranged on the desktop.2. Right-click an empty area on the taskbar; then choose Cascade Windows, Tile Windows Horizontally, or Tile Windows Vertically (Figure 2.26 ).
Figure 2.26. Here, I chose Tile Windows Horizontally. Minimized windows aren't arranged, so your taskbar may have more buttons than are tiled on the desktop.

