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 ...

Just for the heck of it, you can make your File Explorer windows minimize, maximize, close, open in slow motion in Windows 10/8/7/Vista. This looks pretty cool, and you are sure to enjoy the ...

Using MiniMIZE, you can select the corner of your desktop from which, you’d like the thumbnails to start appearing. It also minimizes it to the same spot, the next time you minimize it. You can also ...

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On Windows, you got used to the Minimize command, which sent any particular document or application window down to the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. OS X has a similar feature, which is also ...

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 ...

OS X’s minimize feature shrinks down an open window and stores the page on the right-hand side of your Dock (assuming you haven’t moved the dock off the bottom of the screen). It’s a handy way to ...

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.

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 ...

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