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Getting to Know the Windows® XP Operating System
Lesson 7: Resizing, repositioning, and hiding windows
Using the taskbar
If you have application windows open on the desktop, you
can rearrange them by clicking and dragging the program's
button on the taskbar. You have these options:
Move windows
Size windows
Minimize all windows — display only the taskbar
buttons
Maximize windows
Close windows
Choose your option depending on how you wish to set up
your desktop.
Minimizing and maximizing windows
1
To make the Explorer window the active window, click
the Windows Explorer button on the taskbar.
The operating system highlights the Windows
title bar to show that Windows
window.
2
Click the Minimize button at the top-right of the
Explorer window to hide the window.
Windows
However, it is still open, as you can see from the taskbar.
HINT: Minimizing program windows is a good way to clean up the
desktop without actually closing programs.
3
Click the Maximize button in the top-right corner of the
Paint window.
®
Explorer disappears from the desktop.
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Explorer is the active
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Explorer
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