Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
    • What Is a Window?
    • Opening a Window
    • Sizing a Window with Maximize, Minimize, and Restore
    • Sizing a Window's Borders
    • Using Scroll Bars
    • Moving a Window
    • Viewing a Window's Contents
    • Closing Windows
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Sizing a Window with Maximize, Minimize, and Restore

You may want to increase the size of a window to see its full contents, or you may want to decrease a window to a button on the taskbar in order to make room for other windows. One way to resize a window is to use the Maximize, Minimize, and Restore commands found on the Control menu. If you use the mouse, you will use the Maximize, Minimize, and Restore buttons located at the right end of the window's title bar. The Restore button and the Maximize button will appear interchangeably on the title bar of a window. For example, if you maximize a window, the Restore button replaces the Maximize button and you can then minimize or Restore a window (see Figure 2.3). If you restore a window, the Maximize button replaces the Restore button. Figure 2.3 displays the title bar of a maximized window, and Figure 2.4 displays the title bar of a restored window.

Figure 2.3 When a window is maximized, the Restore button replaces the Maximize button.

Figure 2.4 When a window is restored, the Maximize button replaces the Restore button.

The buttons and commands work as described here.

To maximize, minimize, or restore a window using buttons or commands, perform the following actions:

• Click the Maximize button or command to enlarge the window. A maximized window fills your entire screen, hiding any of the desktop in the background.
• Click the Minimize button or command to reduce the window to a button on the taskbar.
• Click the Restore button or command to return a window to the size it was before it was maximized.

To maximize, minimize, or restore a window with the mouse, click the appropriate button in the title bar of the window. To maximize, minimize, or restore a window using the Control menu, follow these steps:

1. Click the Control menu button to open the window's Control menu; alternatively, press Alt+Spacebar.
2. Click the command (Restore, Minimize, or Maximize) you want to initiate. Alternatively, use the down arrow to move to and highlight the command, and then press Enter.

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