Minimizing, Maximizing, and Restoring Windows
Windows allows you to easily enlarge, hide, or shrink a window using the Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons.The Minimize button is among the three buttons at the right end of the title bar. This button has a small dash (or minus sign). The Minimize button shrinks the window and places it on the taskbar while leaving the program running.
The Maximize button, which looks like a small window, is used to enlarge a window to cover the entire desktop.
After a window is maximized, the Maximize button changes to the Restore button. It looks like two windows near one another. If you click the Restore button, the maximized window shrinks to its previous size (the size it was before you maximized it).
Sizing Windows
Sizing window is slightly different from minimizing, restoring, or maximizing. Note: You cannot size a window if it's been maximized.To change the size of a window:
- Hover the mouse pointer over any corner of the window. (You can also place the pointer over the borders of the window.)
- The mouse pointer changes into a double-headed arrow.
- Clickand hold down the left mouse button.
- Drag the arrow out or in to make the window larger or smaller.
- Release the mouse button when the window is the size you want.
Make sure the mouse pointer change into a two-headed arrow before you try to size the window. Moving a Window Using the Title Bar
Sometimes a window may obscure an item you want to click on or view.To move a window:
- Place the mouse pointer over the title bar (at the top of the window).
- Click and hold down the left mouse button. (You cannot move a window that has been maximized other than to use the Minimize button.)
- Drag the window to the place where you want it and release the mouse button.
