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GETTING TO THE DESKTOP
Okay, you're into a full-screen view of your
spreadsheet, or your data base entry program, or your
favorite game program -- or whatever -- and you now want
to get to the Windows desktop in order to start up
another of your favorite programs. How do you do it?
If any part of the Windows 9x/ME startup screen for your
desktop still showed, all you would have to do is click
on that, and it will come to the foreground. But the
full-screen view you have chosen for your current program
hides that. Do you know about what you'd do in Windows
3.x? Just press the <ctrl> key and the <esc>
key simultaneously, and up would pop a list of your
currently running programs, and then you can easily
select where you want to go to next from the menu. In
order to get the list of currently running programs under
Windows 9x/ME, when the "Start" button is
visible on your screen, you can do so by clicking on
"Start", then clicking on "Run...",
and finally typing in the word "taskman" (which
is short for task manager) in the Run dialog box.
With Windows 9x/ME, when you press
<ctrl><esc> from an executing program. you
normally get the "start menu", which is what
"cascades" up from pressing the
"Start" button on the task bar. If you did this
by mistake, you can close the start menu by pressing the
"esc" key. Otherwise, use the start menu to run
whatever other progam you desire, in place of what you're
currently running now. If you want to get to the desktop
from this start menu, you can do so by typing the word
"desktop" in the Run dialog box; this will open
a folder view of everything on the desktop.
