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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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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.
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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.
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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...
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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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You may possibly be the only Windows user who doesn't know this... 
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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. 
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 Well we all gotta learn somehow... In Windows 7 there's also the window shake trick...
You've probably never heard of that either so (bad video but it'll give you the idea):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVtipEecVw[^]
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Thanks for the shake tip! It works 
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Not on my XP machine it doesn't.
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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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XP? Holy f***ing archaic OS batman!
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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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Simon_Whale wrote: because of the Access issue we are running XP on 99% of the desktops. I am currently updating my CV and sending it to as many people as possible
FTFY
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 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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My home machine is still on XP because that's what it came with when I bought it, 6½ years ago. We use most pieces of consumer tech for longer than that, why not computers?
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Plus it's like the gnome 2 equivalent in the Windows world (and look how popular gnome 2 continues to be)... it just works, nothing fancy, just works.
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And both our desktops are over 12 yrs old. A dual PIII and a dual Athlon MP. I'm running a RAID card in the Athlon where the management software work with any drivers newer than XP because they don't have the proper signatures.
Keep looking at newer ones, but there just isn't money in the budget for new ones now that we have 2 kids in school.
Just upgraded from XP to Win 7 at work last fall when they finally upgraded some of our 5+ yr old computers.
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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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Jimmy Savile wrote: they are not all Microsoft windows.
Do some of them look like this[^]...? Or this[^]...? 
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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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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I'm sorry I offended your delicate sensibilities. I was simply trying to making a joke. Evidently, I failed.
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
modified 31-Jan-13 11:48am.
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Yeah definitely went over my head.
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I've found sometimes you have to hold it to get this to actually work though.
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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