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Here is a screenshot showing Wordpad after it is first started up.

Wordpad appears as a square on the screen, with the Desktop showing in the background. This square is called a "Window".

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The top bar on the window usually has the name of the program that the window is displaying, and other information. This top bar is called the "titlebar ".

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You can close the window (and the program) by clicking on the "x" icon.

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The icon indicated in this screenshot will "minimize" the window. This means the window will be hidden, but the program will still be running.

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When the "minimize " icon is clicked on, the program is hidden, but it shows up in the taskbar at the bottom of the desktop.

(As you can see, I'm running other programs while making this Screenbook, and those other programs are also appearing in the taskbar).

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Clicking on the icon in the taskbar causes the window to appear again.

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The other window control icon is the "maximize " icon. Clicking on this will cause the window to fill the screen.

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Here I've clicked on the maximize icon, and the window for Wordpad has filled the screen.

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The Maximize icon has changed into the Restore icon. Clicking on this will cause the window to return to its former size.

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Here I've clicked on the Restore icon and the window has returned to its former size.

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When the window is not maximized you can move it around on the screen by clicking on the titlebar and dragging.

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Here I've clicked on the titlebar with the left mouse button, and then moved the mouse while still holding the left button down. The window moves with the mouse. When I let go of the mouse button, the window stays at the new position. (This is called drag and drop).

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You can have multiple windows open at the same time. Here I have opened a second program ("UltraEdit").

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Clicking on any window brings it to the foreground. Here I've clicked on Wordpad, and it is now in front of UltraEdit.

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You can also change the size of a window. To illustrate this, I've first minimized Wordpad, and just UltraEdit is showing.

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You can change the size of a window by dragging on the sides. Hold the mouse over any side of the window. The mouse cursor will change shape. Drag the side to change the height or width. Here I've narrowed the window by dragging the left side.

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You can also arrange windows automatically. In this screenshot, three windows are active: UltraEdit, Wordpad, and Screenbook Maker.

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We will right click on the empty area of the taskbar.

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A pop-up menu displays. Among other choices, you can see that we can choose to have the windows Cascaded or Tiled.

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Here we have chosen to have the windows Cascaded.

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And here the windows have been Tiled vertically.

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There is also an option to minimize all windows.

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All the windows have been minimized, and the desktop is showing.

(You can also get this same effect by holding down the special key with the Windows icon on your keyboard, and simultaneously hitting the "M" key).

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