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• Minimize a window: Click the yellow minimize button in the top-left corner of the window, or press Command-M. You can set an option in Dock & Menu Bar preferences to have a window minimize when you double-click its title bar. Most windows can be manually resized.
• Keyboard Shortcuts to Minimize and Hide Applications in Mac By Damien / Sep 25, 2013 Updated Feb 12, 2015 / Mac For Mac users, if you have plenty of applications running, you might find that your desktop is cluttered with all sort of application windows.
• Hiding Application Windows on Mac. In order to hide (almost the same as the minimized) active.

How do I quickly minimize all runnings apps/windows and show the Mac OSX desktop?! The best way I know of is to press the F11 key (or Fn+F11 on some MacBook keyboards) this should push all your apps out of the way and show the desktop. When lots of windows are opened, the users will feel cluttered and the screen will look unorganised. To make it more organised some of them have to be minimized whereas some of them have to be resized. The main window needs to be maximized to let the work happen. To do this, The users can easily touch the mouse or trackpad to organise as they want.

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To close a window, position your mouse pointer over the red button located at the upper-left corner of the window and click the mouse button. Windows users are used to clicking the red 'X' in the upper right button in Microsoft Windows to quit an application. In OS X however, clicking the left red button does not necessarily quit an application, in many cases it just closes the window for that application.
Some applications will quit when you close the window, some won't. An ideal example to demonstrate this behavior would be a comparison of System Preferences and TextEdit. System Preferences quits when you when you click the close button. TextEdit however will continue to run when the close button is clicked. You can verify this behavior using several different methods in Mac OS X for example, by looking under the application's icon in the Dock or by using Activity Monitor.
As a general rule, document-centric and/or applications that can have multiple windows open at any given time remain open when the window's close button is clicked. Single window applications on the other hand will quit. Additional single window examples include Calculator, Dictionary, and DVD Player to name a few.
Minimize Button
You can minimize a window by clicking on the yellow button. When you do this the window will find it's way to the right side of the Dock and will show up as a very small window. The behavior is controlled by a Dock preference setting under System Preferences choices are 'Genie Effect' (default setting) and 'Scale Effect'. The example below shows the minimize of a Finder window to the Dock using the Genie Effect. Note how it looks in the Dock when fully minimized.
Once a window is minimized to the Dock just click on it to bring back in full view.
Zoom Button
The name 'Zoom' is a bit misleading for the green button because the button not only zooms (or maximizes) but shrinks a window. A click of the zoom button will make a window large enough so that you will be presented a view to show the relevant information for that window. A subsequent click will return the window it's prior size.
The example that follows is of a Finder window. Observe the first and second views closely. Note that second is shown after clicking on the zoom button. You can now see the additional column and sidebar listings.
Try to click on the zoom button in various applications to observe the behavior.

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When we look at the Launchpad and Mission Control we normally do have a jest of a sensation that Steve Jobs has visualized a convenient future in which Apple users will have to jumble little with files and get more into using the applications. That future is here now in shape of HIDE ALL with appealing improvements.

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Hide All is a Mac application that allows you to minimize all the applications and Finder windows with just a single click. The application simply makes the desktop empty preventing the hectic task of closing every application individually.

The application has very simple interface. It just comprises of four buttons. These buttons are used to minimize all windows, to restore the windows that have been minimized, to hide the application and fourth is to quit it.

The new version 1.6.4 is now available. It requires PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

The application, after its launch, restores the windows which have been minimized earlier. There, it can be said that the application is merely used to minimize and restore windows that have been minimized using the application. It should also be noted that the application fails to restore if you minimize the application after the launch.

Let's have a brief overview of the working of the application. If you wish to minimize all windows, then simply click Hide All Apps. Wait for a few seconds and the windows are gone. Now if you wish to restore the windows just click UNHIDE ALL APPLICATIONS. That's simply all!