How to minimize all open windows with just one click?

Often, we tend to work with multiple windows open at the same time. Suddenly, we may want to see some information stored on our desktop. Only if we minimize all open windows, would we be able to see the desktop. It would definitely take time. So, in such a situation, how to see the desktop with just one click?

Here is the solution:

In the previous article, I wrote about how to display the quick launch toolbar. Do you remember?

In the quick launch toolbar, there is an icon named "Show Desktop" (as shown in the figure below).





Clicking on this icon will minimize all the open windows and show the desktop. If you click it again, it will restore the windows to their original position.

Alternatively, if your keyboard has windows key (usually will be between the Ctrl & Alt keys in the keyboard), then press winkey and 'D' key. This works exactly the same way as "Show Desktop" icon. Pressing this Winkey & 'D' combination for the second time would restore the windows to their original position.

Pls try it out and see. Let us see more such tips in the coming articles. Good luck!!

How to display the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows XP?

The Quick Launch Toolbar is a list of shortcuts to our favorite programs. It appears next to the ‘Start’ button in the taskbar. We can use the Quick Launch Toolbar to open programs with a single click. If you are not able to see it in your taskbar, don’t worry! We can enable it in no time.

Right-click your taskbar, click Toolbars, and then click Quick Launch. Here it is!!









Windows XP displays the Quick Launch bar, which by default shows shortcuts for opening Microsoft Internet Explorer and for displaying your desktop. If other programs have added shortcuts to the Quick Launch bar, they too would be displayed.

To start a program, just click the shortcut.



With the Quick Launch bar displayed on your taskbar, your favorite programs are just a click away.

Do we really need a blog for Basics?

Before I start writing anything about computers, I want to just share with you how I got this idea of creating a blog for teaching computer basics.

Naturally, some of you may be wondering why a blog for basics when the technology has advanced to a very great extent?

Let me explain one incident which happened when I was working in an Operations support project. You will be kinda convinced then.

Some time back, We(Me & my team) used to give operations support to the end users of an application. Once when one of my team members tried to help a user over the phone, he had asked her to open a file.

Then she told him, "I'm not seeing any files here. All I could see is some yellow things". Yellow things??? He was wondering what she was referring to? But within a few seconds, he understood. Do you want to know what she was referring to? She was referring to folders!!!

Later When he narrated this to me, for the first time, I started realising that still there are quite a lot of people around the world, who need some guidance on computer basics and windows basics especially.

Even now, I know some elite people who stumble, who don't know how to operate when the mouse doesn't work for some reason and many more stuff like that. Even people who are in the IT field??!!

If you are a basic user, you can expect to get some really useful information here. Experienced and advanced users, kindly excuse me. You may not get anything new immediately from me. But definitely, I would require your feedback and valuable suggestions for improvement.