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MAXIMIZED AND RESTORED WINDOWS

As you probably know, the middle icon of the three at the top left of most windows varies between a single square, and one square behind another. When it is a single square, its meaning is "maximize", or set the windows to cover your entire screen (excluding the taskbar, if you don't have it in auto-hide state.) Maximize the window, then you see the two overlapping squares, and that means "restore", which is to reduce the maximized window to whatever smaller size it was before being maximized. Windows 98 and ME users will see the "tool tips" with those meanings when they hover the mouse cursor over the symbols; Windows 95 users won't see these tool tips. Is there another way of maximizing and restoring window sizes? Of course; Windows, it seems, usually has MANY different ways of doing the same thing. What you can do to toggle between maximized and restored sizes is to double-click the title bar of any window.