Button Groups In the old days, opening a lot of windows might produce a relatively useless display of truncated buttons. Not only were the buttons too narrow to read the names of the windows, but the buttons appeared in chronological order, not software-program order. As you may have noticed, though, Windows 7 automatically consolidates open windows into a single program button. (There’s even a subtle visual sign that a program Figure 2-27: An icon without a border is a program you haven’t opened yet (the second and fourth ones here). A brightened background indicates the active (frontmost) program. Right-clicking one of these buttons lets you perform tasks on all the windows together, such as closing them all at once.
Figure 2-28: Top: Cascading windows are neatly arranged so you can see the title bar for each window. Click any title bar to bring that window to the foreground as the active window. Bottom: You may prefer to see your windows displayed stacked (left) or side-byside (right).
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