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This reminds me of the best "feature" that windows 95 had to me as a kid. If you clicked the start menu, then hit alt + -, you'd get the standard menu for play
by simcop2387 7y ago
This reminds me of the best "feature" that windows 95 had to me as a kid. If you clicked the start menu, then hit alt + -, you'd get the standard menu for playing with a window. Minimize, Maximize, Move (greyed out), and a few others. Importantly though was that Close was an option. Clicking it would remove the start button. This lead to lots of fun playing with computers in stores at the time, closing the start buttons on them all.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120213-00/?p=8323 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120213-00/?p=83...
This was before the advent of "windows keyboards" and the menu key on them.
EDIT changed link to a better one
- blibble 7y agomove worked to begin with, that was even more fun they fixed it some way through Win98 I thought...
- whoopdedo 7y agoI never stumbled into that one. What I do remember from Windows 95b through 7 is if the keyboard focus was on the taskbar and you pressed Alt+F4, it brought up the Shutdown/Restart/Logoff dialog. That made it possible to cleanly shutdown the computer blindly from the keyboard. Win,Esc,Alt+F4,R,Enter
- Noumenon72 7y agoIt's Win+X, U, U now.
- pierrec 7y agoYou can still do pretty much the same thing. Win+D, Alt+F4.
- connicpu 7y agoThat's still a thing, the focus just needs to be on the desktop!
- ygra 7y agoBoth the Desktop and the taskbar belong to Explorer and trying to close that is what triggers that dialog. Both still work in Windows 10.