Minimising a window

• If you move the mouse pointer over the first of these three buttons, you will see it is called the Minimize icon.
  
  
  

• Click on the Minimise icon and you will see that the window disappears.  It is minimised down to the Windows Taskbar, which is the name of the bar across the bottom of your screen.
  
  
  

• Move the mouse pointer to this minimised icon within the Windows Taskbar and you will see the following popup, which displays a ‘thumbnail’ picture of the minimised program.
  
  
  

• Click on the minimised icon and the program will be displayed within a window once again, on your screen.
  
  NOTE: Minimising a program is not the same as closing a program.  When you minimise a program, it is still running in your computer’s memory, it is simply minimized in size, down to the Windows Taskbar.  Closing a program means that the program is closed and no longer running in memory.