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Chapter 2: The Traditional Desktop
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Figure 2-2: Point at the bottom-left corner to reveal an icon
that takes you to the Start screen.
2. When the Start screen icon appears, slowly
raise your mouse pointer along the screen’s
left edge.
As you move the pointer up the screen’s edge,
thumbnails of your open apps appear, leaving
you with several choices:
•
To return to an open app, click its thumbnail.
The desktop disappears, and the app fills the
screen, looking just as you last left it.
•Toreturntothedesktopfromanyapp,head
for the Start screen and click the Desktop tile.
Or, if you spot a Desktop thumbnail among
the list of recently used apps, click the
Desktop thumbnail to return to the desktop.
•Tocloseanopenapp,right-clickitsthumb-
nail and choose Close. The app disappears
from the screen, leaving you at the desktop.
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