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 ).
Some programsusually, programs that run all the timehave notification-area icons (covered later in this chapter) instead of taskbar buttons.
To minimize all windows:
Right-click an empty area on the taskbar; then choose Show the Desktop.
or
If the Quick Launch toolbar is displayed, click the desktop icon (Figure 2.25 ).
or
Press Windows logo key+D or Windows logo key+M.
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.
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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 ).
To reverse this arrangement, right-click an empty area on the taskbar; then choose Undo Cascade or Undo Tile.
To display the Quick Launch toolbar, right-click an empty area on the taskbar; then choose Toolbars > Quick Launch.