To remove some of the clutter of open applications, you can "minimize" a window, taking it off screen but waiting in the background. To minimize your open window, click the Minimize button, which ...

If you’d like to minimize your windows explorer, notepad and other applications to the System Tray instead of to the taskbar on your Windows PC, RBTray is a freeware that you want to check out. Once ...

There are a few ways to release a minimized window from the Dock. You can click on the minimized window in the Dock, of course, or you can Control-click on the owning program’s Dock icon, and choose ...

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New options will bring the transparent effect of the Start Menu to portions of applications, instead of an all-or-nothing ...

Windows only: Freeware application miniMize creates thumbnail images of your minimized application on your desktop, providing an interesting and customizable alternative to the Windows taskbar.

I'm writing a sort of alt-tabish app that can display scaled screenshots of all windows. However, if I grab a shot of a minimized window, all i get is a truncated title bar.<BR><BR>So, I'd like to be ...

Window clutter can build up while using your PC—assorted apps, File Explorer, settings, and more add up quickly. Minimizing all the inactive windows can feel like a chore, too, especially when already ...

The Microsoft Windows operating system includes a Task Scheduler program allowing you to open programs at specific times. For instance, you can set the program to load Internet Explorer whenever you ...

Snow Leopard changed a lot of small things in the system, and not all of these were detailed by Apple. One such change occurs when you use minimized windows with Spaces (Apple’s tool to create virtual ...

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