Comments on: How To Minimize, Restore and Maximize All Windows In Windows 11/10

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 06 May 2023 11:19:46 +0000

I know that restoring and maximising are not the same (as everyone is saying), but i dont really understand the difference between restoring (win + shift key + M) and maximising (win + D), it kind of makes no sense. Ive seen other comments that say if you click, hold and drag the window in a circular motion or if you shake the window, the window would close, but those DONT ACTUALLY WORK.
This page has NO REASON to be WRONG. The simplicity is all that matters if you want to minimise all windows quickly. Just simply click on the very right side of the taskbar and if you want to maximise/restore all windows thats a completely different story. To me theres absolutely NO DIFFERENCE if you want to maximise or restore windows. This page has helped quite enough and i like it

P.S.: Im not saying theres no difference between maximising/restoring nor im trying to a start a war over some stupid technology conference. All im saying is that i DONT undestand the concept of it.

By: Yozo Bonaparte

Yozo Bonaparte — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:31:47 +0000

So at first when I click the vertical lin in the bottom right hand corner it would minimise all but not maximise (which everyone is saying). However, I right clicked it and clicked it and then clicked ‘peep desktop’ and then it started worked as the page said it would (I then right clicked it back to ‘show desktop’. Now when I left click the vertical line it maximises/minimises as it should.

The page is actually right! Thanks guys.

By: John

John — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:31:57 +0000

You’re simply being untruthful about maximizing windows in Windows 10. What you’re describing is RESTORING windows, which is something completely different from maximizing them. In Windows 7 you could explicitly maximize all windows, but apparently you can’t in Windows 10

By: LuisC

LuisC — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:28:11 +0000

This won’t get you all the way there, but it helps a lot:

You can mouse over the window group on the taskbar, press the shift key and hold it down, then right click on the taskbar group your mouse is hovered over. You’ll see a menu to manage all of the windows there with these 5 options: cascade, stack, show side by side, restore or minimize.

By: Eddie Pittman

Eddie Pittman — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:40:51 +0000

This simply will not work in Windows 10. Your illustratopm shows the cursor up against the “Desktop Peek”. If you click inside this, obviously the Desktop will open. If you click anywhere between Peek and the Notifications icon, notifications will open. In 25-years I’ve never heard of clicking on the right-end of the Taskbar to minimize or maximize a window or multiple windows. Can you elaborate further on this?

By: Joe Sicapak

Joe Sicapak — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 02:20:36 +0000

GODDAMN IT. I have 11 command windows minimized, running various pieces of a microservice application. I can’t restore the goddamned things all at once. Have to around with alt-Tab to see the minimized windturds and click once to restore.

By: DonK44

DonK44 — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:21:03 +0000

Gagan, I appreciate your suggestions, however they do NOT restore the open windows that were closed down when I clicked the lower-right-taskbar to minimize them.
I know I can restore all previously displayed windows, by individually clicking each of the 7 open outlook windows, BUT I do remember that alternately clicking the lower right taskbar on windows 7 ( a very good stable design I will add !!) you could restore the display or remove all displayed windows on the screen -EFFORTLESSLY.
I ‘d like you to pass on to the WINDOWS Design Team-Managers , ‘That if they had to pay people(from their own pocket-money) to spend time searching for answers, or to restore the goofy steps that Windows 10-managers approved of, then I’m sure all these problems would be non-existent. [I can’t help but think of the similarity of windows-10 to the story of ‘Yertle the Turtle’ by Dr.Seuss , read as a child !] Check it out. Thanks for reading.DMK.

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:45:47 +0000

Turn Tablet Mode off if your missing the minimize and maximize buttons.
To do so press windowskey+S then type tablet mode
Read the descriptions windows has provided.

By: myusrn

myusrn — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:35:07 +0000

a related and really useful mouse gesture and associated keyboard shortcut is the one that minimizes [ and restores ] all windows except the currently active one. The mouse gesture is click title bar and shake window left & right and the much easier keyboard shortcut option is winkey+home.

By: myusrn

myusrn — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:33:32 +0000

i’m clicking title bar and moving window in circular clockwise and counterclockwise motion and i’m not finding this gesture executes the equivalent of winkey+d or winkey+m.