Working With Multiple Windows


As you do each assignment, you may wish to have two windows open on your computer screen, to enable you to work on your assignment while at the same time referencing a webpage to find information. This is called multi-tasking. Read below for some helpful hints on multi-tasking.

Working with Multiple Windows on Your Computer Desktop


As we work with more than one computer application at the same time (known as multi-tasking), it is often necessary that we see two windows simultaneously on our computer screen (known as the desktop).

We can relocate and resize our windows manually, so as to accommodate more than one window on the desktop, but the quickest way of relocating and resizing these windows is to simply right-click on an unused part of the taskbar (the bottom strip of your computer desktop that has the "start" button at the left) and then, in the resulting pop-up menu, click on "tile windows vertically" or "view windows side by side".

You will see that all of your windows have been arranged to be viewable on your desktop, but you will soon realize that viewing more than two windows in this manner is not very practical. If you have more than two windows open, you must minimize all but two of them. Then repeat the right-click on the taskbar and again choose "tile windows vertically" or "view windows side by side". Now you will have two "workable" windows nicely arranged on your desktop, allowing you to reference one window (such as finding information on a webpage) while actively working in the second window.

Note! This should be of good use to you as you work on your assignments in one window, while viewing the pertinent information given in the course content or on a webpage in the other window.