Mac users. How do you minimize windows on a Mac?

Question

How do you minimize windows that are open on a Mac? Like on, per se, Windows, at the top there's three options (top right corner), minimize, restore and close. But, how do you minimize on a Mac? Or can you? Please, serious answers only!

Answer 1

As others have said, if you look in the top left of the window there are three little round buttons, an x, - , +

x closes the window
- minimises the window so that it sits on your dock (next to the trash can)
+ makes your window the full screen size

there is an option to have it hidden altogether, it doesn't sit in the dock, the only way you know you have the application open is by the little black triangle under the application. to do this you hold down the apple key, and press h

to get your window back, click on the applications dock icon...

Answer 2

It's the yellow button in the top left hand corner on mac os x. To bring the window back up go to the dock and look on the right side for a window.

Answer 3

the little yellow circle in the upper left corner will minimize your windows to the dock. in ealier versions of mac os systems, double clicking the title bar would minimize the window to just the title bar in the place it stood on your screen. os versions above 9 (i believe) took this feature away. there is a 3rd party application called window shade that you can purchase ($10 or so) that allows this feature and many other useful ones to become available again. www.unsanity.com is the website for the app. download.com should have a trial version.

Answer 4

On Mac OSX, you click the center round orb on the upper left hand side. In many applications, its yellow. That will shrink the window you are looking at down and send it to the Dock.

Answer 5

You really don t need to minimise in mac, minimising will put pressure in the amount of icons you have at the bottom bar of your mac (by duplicating the app s icon - one for showing that it s active, and one for showing that it s minimised). You just simply click in a different app to work somewhere else. If you need to go back you use gestures or click back in the other App you were using at start

Answer 6

if it is an OX 10 u click on the green button. if any lower the only way is to bring up the screen and u click the likee line in the left corner. hope it helps

Answer 7

theres a short cut with the F-1/F12 buttons can't remember .and the little yellow -sign by the green + sign on the corner of the page.

Answer 8

the way mac Skype works is there's a function the place you may look on the documents website of any Skype consumer that's the place you may locate extra yet generally your Skype purchasers could have the skill to make certain extra of it so your high-quality

Answer 9

as many others have said, you could hit the yellow "orb". but you can also double click the top bar. where it displays the name of the current program that your using.

Answer 10

top left of the window
middle button
yellow
makes a - when you cursor over it

hope it helps :)