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how minimise and restore screen

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Have recently installed Firefox from IE9. Could you explain how I minimise a screen and return to it please .(without deleting all screens), I have clicked the customise button and see how to seek and drop but don,t see anything relating to minimising etc.

  I am the original computer dummy so please allow for this!
Have recently installed Firefox from IE9. Could you explain how I minimise a screen and return to it please .(without deleting all screens), I have clicked the customise button and see how to seek and drop but don,t see anything relating to minimising etc. I am the original computer dummy so please allow for this!

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Ok all there now, I,m certain the tools on the top left hand side( file, edit aso) were not there earlier so maybe fiddling with the customize has fixed my problem.

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Hi, its the same way you do for IE, the top right hand corner of the screen. There is the dash, for minimizing, two boxes for resizing and the x to close. What are you seeing when you open Firefox?

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Up the top are 7 symbols beginning with a star, no dashes. I gather some toolbars are missing .

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If you do not see the window control buttons then you can try to open the system menu via Alt+Space.

Do you see them if you make the window title bar visible?

You can toggle the title bar on/off via the "Title Bar" button at the bottom left in the Customize palette window.

You can try a different Windows theme and Windows background image (wallpaper) to see if that makes the buttons visible if they currently aren't visible.

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Oh oh, yes, I was looking in the wrong spot. But when i do that all the screens close.

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Ok all there now, I,m certain the tools on the top left hand side( file, edit aso) were not there earlier so maybe fiddling with the customize has fixed my problem.