Work with several windows

Step by step

1. Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
2. Click "Calculator". In the menu that opened, click the "Calculator" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
3. Open the Start menu again. The menu closed by itself when the app opened. Click the Start button (the four blue squares, in the middle of the taskbar, the dark strip at the bottom of this practice computer) a second time: the menu opens above it again.
4. Click "Notepad". In the menu that opened, click the "Notepad" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
5. Go back to the Calculator. Two windows are open now, and Notepad is in front. On the taskbar at the bottom of the practice computer, click the Calculator icon (a small calculator picture): its window comes to the front.
6. Then to Notepad. Now click the Notepad icon (a small notepad picture) on the taskbar: Notepad comes back to the front. That is how you switch between open windows.
7. Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Notepad" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.
8. Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Calculator" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.

These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

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