{"id":15493,"date":"2009-12-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/12\/29\/how-do-i-minimize-a-group-of-windows-in-windows-7-from-the-taskbar\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-minimize-a-group-of-windows-in-windows-7-from-the-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091229-00\/?p=15493","title":{"rendered":"How do I minimize a group of windows in Windows 7 from the taskbar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows&nbsp;7 taskbar automatically groups similar windows, and when you right-click on the grouped icon, you may get fancy stuff like a jump list or a task list, but you will also get a very small repertoire of window management options. In particular, the only option that operates on the group is <i>Close all windows<\/i>. What about the other group options?\n To get a list of more group window options, hold the shift key when you right-click on the grouped icon. Then you&#8217;ll get more options like <i>Cascade<\/i> and <i>Minimize all windows<\/i>.\n Since the contents of the regular right-click pop-up window are dynamic, when you hit &#8220;C&#8221; for <i>Close all windows<\/i>, it still waits for you to confirm by hitting Enter. On the other hand, the shift+right-click menu auto-executes <i>Close all windows<\/i> when you hit the &#8220;C&#8221; hotkey. Doesn&#8217;t save you any more keystrokes (trading an Enter for a shift key), but you do get predictability since the shift+right-click menu is pretty stable.<\/p>\n<p> Bonus tip: To get the System menu for a window, you can right-click on its pop-up thumbnail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows&nbsp;7 taskbar automatically groups similar windows, and when you right-click on the grouped icon, you may get fancy stuff like a jump list or a task list, but you will also get a very small repertoire of window management options. In particular, the only option that operates on the group is Close all windows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Windows&nbsp;7 taskbar automatically groups similar windows, and when you right-click on the grouped icon, you may get fancy stuff like a jump list or a task list, but you will also get a very small repertoire of window management options. In particular, the only option that operates on the group is Close all windows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}