Conceal What You're Working On So You Can Step Away from Your Computer

If you have any sensitive information open and you want to walk away from your computer you can conceal the open windows on the bottom toolbar by placing your mouse pointer at the top of the toolbar and then dragging it down. It will "hide" the entire toolbar!

You may need to unlock your toolbar first to do this, simply right click on the bottom toolbar and uncheck: Lock the Taskbar. Now it should work.

To reveal the open programs again simply put the cursor over the bottom toolbar and drag up.

This saves a lot of time closing and re-opening programs!

Oh and you can do this all even faster if you minimize all your open windows simultaneously with the shortcut keys:

WINDOW KEY + D (it's to the left of your spacebar and it looks like Microsoft's Windows Flag Logo)

Also another tip: Switch between open windows with this great shortcut:

Alt + Tab

If you only want to switch between two windows at a time first click on each window, THEN click ALT + TAB to toggle back and forth between them!

If you want to scan through all open windows hold down the ALT button then tap the TAB button and a list of open files will appear that you can scroll through by tapping the TAB button until it lands on the program/document you want to view.

Unfortunately concealing the bottom toolbar does not work on Vista, but it does work on previous OS.

But all the shortcut keys mentioned above do work on Vista.