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uhhhhhhhh, my minimize button is gone

Jun 24, 2007 8:37PM PDT

I was downloading some free games on apple.com and all of a sudden my minimize button is nowhere to be found? what the heck?

did I do something stupid? wait don't answer that....


if anyone can help me out, that would be great. I miss that button

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Does a restart,
Jun 24, 2007 10:55PM PDT

bring it back?

What free games where you downloading?

P

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it's alright
Jun 24, 2007 11:29PM PDT

some tetris like games. It actually came back, but I'm worried it'll go away again. That was really really weird

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so... you don't always need a
Jun 25, 2007 2:17AM PDT

minimize "button"... like in another operating system. Presuming you are referring to MacOSX...

Just double click on the top part of the window where the "title" of the window is. That should "minimize" it. In the other operating sytem, when you do that the windows maximizes... If you want the window back, it is in the dock on the right...

I like the "Genie effect"... to set this, in System Preferences, select "Dock"... "Minimize using"...