{"id":39153,"date":"2004-05-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/27\/what-is-the-difference-between-minimize-all-and-show-desktop\/"},"modified":"2004-05-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T14:00:00","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-minimize-all-and-show-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040527-00\/?p=39153","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between Minimize All and Show Desktop?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe keyboard shortcut for “Minimize All” is\nWin<\/kbd>+M<\/kbd>\nand\nThe keyboard shortcut for “Show Desktop” is\nWin<\/kbd>+D<\/kbd>.\nHow are they different?\n<\/p>\n

\n“Minimize All” is easier to describe.\nIt minimizes all the windows that support the “Minimize” command.\nYou can minimize a window by selecting “Minimize” from its System menu,\nor by clicking the\n🗕<\/span>\nbutton in the title bar.\nSo “Minimize All” is effectively the same as going to each window\nthat is open and clicking the Minimize button.\nIf there is a window that doesn’t have a Minimize button, then it is\nleft alone.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Show Desktop” takes “Minimize All” one step further.\nAfter minimizing all the windows that can be minimized,\nit then takes the desktop and “raises” it to the top of the\nwindow stack so that no other windows cover it.\n(Well, okay, topmost windows continue to cover it.)\n<\/p>\n

\nSo “Show Desktop” manages to get a few more windows out of your way\nthan “Minimize All”.\n<\/p>\n

\nNote, however, that when you return the desktop to its normal\nstate (either by selecting “Show Open Windows” or just by switching\nto another window), all the un-minimizeable windows come back\nbecause the desktop has “lowered” itself back to the bottom of the\nwindow stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They do almost the same thing but not quite.<\/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-39153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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