November 2024
Beginner
416 pages
10h 9m
English
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Chapter 4
Taking Control of Your Desktop
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding a window’s parts
Getting desktop windows to just the right size
Jockeying windows into position
Faking multiple monitors
The Windows Start menu contains icons and an occasional button. It’s easy to see what you’re poking at with a finger or mouse. The Windows desktop, by contrast, includes lots of movable windows, each with miniscule, monochrome buttons, tiny lettering, unlabeled buttons, and pencil-thin borders. The windows come with way too many parts, some with confusing names that you're expected to remember. To give you a hand, this chapter provides a lesson in basic Windows desktop anatomy, as well as tools and techniques to control the size and position of every open window on your desktop.
Dissecting a Typical Desktop Window
Figure 4-1 places a typical window on the slab, with all its parts labeled. Those doodads offer hidden gems that let you turn a confusing mess of piled-up windows into something usable. You visited these tools briefly in Chapter 2. I show them again here so you can refer to this ...
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