What are Minimize, Maximize or Restore?

The following commands allow you the ability to "work and manipulate open items on your monitor" They are 3 icons located in the upper right hand corner of what we call the TITLE BAR on every application or website we visit ... The middle icon changes and will either be the RESTORE icon or the MAXIMIZE icon)

• MINIMIZE (icon resembles _ ) -"get out of the way" to work on another program
• RESTORE (icon resembles 2 pages) - allows you to see every thing "open" - multiple windows at one time so you can see other open applications behind the current or
• MAXIMIZE (icon resembles 1 page) - fills the entire screen with the one program
• CLOSE (icon is an X) and this will close out the program entirely

TIP: If you have a lot of applications open and want to return quickly to the DESKTOP, use your keyboard shortcut: Windows Flag Key + M key (which minimizes all open applications at once)