Quick Tip: Minimize All Windows with a Key Combination
This one comes to us via the comments by reader Gavin:
Did you know that you can minimize all your open windows in XP by just hitting:
The Windows Key + M
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I personally use WINKEY+D To minimise to the desktop, but I guess this achieves roughly the same thing :)
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Anyone know what the difference is between them?
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Just Googled it, lol: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t24443.html
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great thread! thank you!
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