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Windows mouse click behavior is such that the context menu doesn't open while the mouse button is pressed, but only opens the menu when the button is released, so the user has to click again to select a context menu item. This behavior differs from that of macOS and most free software GUIs.
In this screenshot, the user is hovering the mouse over a link to the encyclopedia article. An example of Page Previews, which is NOT the same as this tool called Navigation popups. Navigation popups is an opt-in Wikipedia gadget (feature) that offers article previews and several functions through popup windows when hovering over wikilinks.
Microsoft Windows-based systems use pop-up dialogue boxes which can steal focus from the current application.On versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 7, there is a user setting that will by default prevent a cooperative application from stealing focus when launching another program or popping up a new window or dialogue box. [2]
"The Windows Team" Easter egg in Windows 1.0 Microsoft Bear appearance in an Easter egg Windows 95 credits Easter egg Windows 98 credits Easter egg Candy Cane texture in Windows XP. Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 all include an Easter egg, which features a window that shows a list of people who worked on the software along with a "Congrats!" button.
It is not possible to open Windows Explorer (or even temporarily open a Windows Explorer window) as an administrator without modifying permissions of system values in the Windows Registry, due to a DCOM restriction. It is not possible to run the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer as a file manager or as the shell in 64-bit editions of Windows 7.
Modal windows are prone to mode errors. [1] [2] [3] On the Web, they often show images in detail, such as those implemented by Lightbox library, or are used for hover ads. [4] [5] The opposite of modal is modeless. Modeless windows don't block the main window, so the user can switch their focus between them, treating them as palette windows.
Jump lists appear when the user right-clicks on an icon in the taskbar or drags the icon upwards with the mouse left click. Recent and frequent files and folders can be pinned inside the jump list. Windows 7 introduced the ability to pin applications to the taskbar so that buttons for launching them appear when they are not running. Previously ...
Pressing the ⇧ Shift key will flip through the stack of open windows in reverse. Flip 3D can also be scrolled with the scroll wheel of a mouse. Unlike Alt+ Tab ↹ in previous versions of Windows, both Flip and Flip 3D allow users to switch to the desktop itself. Alt+ Tab ↹ in previous versions of Windows arranges open windows in the Z-order.