Great Tip
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There's also [WinKey + M] which will do the same thing. And then there's [WinKey + D] which will show the desktop (and pressing the combination again will restore all windows as they were).
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
[WinKey + D] which will show the desktop (and pressing the combination again will restore all windows as they were).
Cheers that will definitely come in useful.
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If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.
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XP provides a taskbar button which does the same thing. If you removed it accidentally, this article could be of help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355[^]
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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pressing the power buttons also hides all the windows (or screens as you call them).
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I see no issue with calling them screens, windows reminds me of Microsoft and they are not all Microsoft windows.
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pressing the power buttons also hides all the windows (or screens as you call them).
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I've found sometimes you have to hold it to get this to actually work though.
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I see no issue with calling them screens, windows reminds me of Microsoft and they are not all Microsoft windows.
Jimmy Savile wrote:
they are not all Microsoft windows.
Do some of them look like this[^]...? Or this[^]...? :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Jimmy Savile wrote:
they are not all Microsoft windows.
Do some of them look like this[^]...? Or this[^]...? :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
And what's your point? I didn't say other companies don't have 'windows' I said I associate the word with Microsoft and thus prefer to use the word 'screen' instead.
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If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.
Pfff... This is old, and only works with Windows 7. A Great Tip is WinKey+Shift+Left Arrow or Right Arrow, to move the current windows on your monitor which is left or right to the current one.
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If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.
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you think just having XP is bad, where I work we are trying to convert a Access 2000 (and yes I did say Acess 2000) project into C# at the moment. because of the Access issue we are running XP on 99% of the desktops.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
[WinKey + D] which will show the desktop (and pressing the combination again will restore all windows as they were).
Cheers that will definitely come in useful.
The annoying thing about it is that it only works provided you don't open any more windows. So if you use WIN+D to minimize, then double click an icon now that you can see it, WIN+D doesn't restore your old windows - it minimises the new one instead...:mad:
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The annoying thing about it is that it only works provided you don't open any more windows. So if you use WIN+D to minimize, then double click an icon now that you can see it, WIN+D doesn't restore your old windows - it minimises the new one instead...:mad:
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
Yes can see how that would be annoying as you would only feasibly want to use it to open a new window.
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If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about this tip. I clicked on the bar and not all my windows closed. I know this because the cat just tried to climb out of the open one to get at the birdies. Please be more accurate in future. Yours, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about this tip. I clicked on the bar and not all my windows closed. I know this because the cat just tried to climb out of the open one to get at the birdies. Please be more accurate in future. Yours, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
If you read it again you will see that I never once used the word 'windows' something somebody has chastised me for already in this thread.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
[WinKey + D] which will show the desktop (and pressing the combination again will restore all windows as they were).
Cheers that will definitely come in useful.
You may possibly be the only Windows user who doesn't know this... ;P
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:laugh: I still have XP on my main machine... because... well it works well... but then again, I have a crap load of machines (just about every OS known to man, lol). I run every operating system from WinXP-Win7 (I have a machine with Win8 but haven't played much with it), , Win Server 2003-2012, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, and Ubuntu (various versions). I just got a new one that will soon takeover as my main machine, it's got a Core i7 with 32GB of RAM and two NVIDIA video cards, it's going to be multi-boot with Windows7, CentOS6, and probably Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon(the latter is the only one not installed yet but I've had it with Unity).
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pressing the power buttons also hides all the windows (or screens as you call them).
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Great trick! ...have you thought about posting to Tips/Tricks? :-D
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You may possibly be the only Windows user who doesn't know this... ;P
I know I can't believe I've gone through my life minimising every screen(sometimes 20 at a time)and it's not even occurred to me that there must be an easier way. It was only today a collegue saw me doing it and showed me the alternative. :-O
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Pfff... This is old, and only works with Windows 7. A Great Tip is WinKey+Shift+Left Arrow or Right Arrow, to move the current windows on your monitor which is left or right to the current one.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
