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down the Alt key until the thumbnail of that window is highlighted and its name
appears. Then release the Alt key along with Tab to hide the panel display.
Figure 1-2
If you hold the Ctrl key down while you press the Alt and Tab key, Windows 7
opens a panel with thumbnails of all open windows, and this panel remains dis-
played even after you release these three keys. You can then flip through the
panel by pressing the → or ← (to move forward or backward). When the thumb-
nail of the window you want to access is highlighted in the panel, press Enter to
close the panel and display the selected window on the desktop.
To use the Flip 3D feature, hold down the Windows logo key (the key with pic-
ture of a waving flag divided into four parts, Q) and then press the Tab key.
Windows 7 then displays all open windows in 3-D cascading arrangement (see
Figure 1-3). You can then flip through the cascading thumbnails by continuing to
the press the Tab key until the thumbnail of the window you want displayed is
at the front of the stack. If your mouse has a center wheel, you can then flip
through the 3-D stack by turning the wheel. (Turn the wheel forward to flip back-
ward through the stack and backward to flip forward.)
As soon as you’ve brought the thumbnail of the window you want displayed on
the desktop to the front of the 3-D stack, release the Windows logo key.
Windows 7 then closes the cascading 3-D stack while at the same time display-
ing the selected window on the desktop.
If you hold the Ctrl key down while you press the Windows logo key and the Tab
key, Windows 7 opens a 3-D stack of all open windows that remains displayed on
your desktop even after you release these three keys. You can then flip through
the 3-D stack by pressing the → or ← (to move forward and backward). When
the thumbnail of the window you want to access is at the front of the stack, you
can press Enter to close the stack and display its window on top of the desktop.
When all the open windows in Windows 7 are minimized as Quick Launch but-
tons (see “Taskbar” later in this part) on the taskbar — which happens after you
click the Show the Desktop icon on the taskbar’s shortcut menu or you press
Q+D — remember that you can position the mouse pointer over each minimized
button to display a thumbnail of its window. Then, when you see the image of
the window you want to activate, you can position the mouse pointer on the
thumbnail to temporarily display its window on the Windows 7 desktop either
full screen or in its previous position and size. You can then click its Quick
Launch button on the taskbar or displayed thumbnail to keep the window open
on the desktop.
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