A window on screen that is not currently selected. Its title bar is typically grayed out. In Windows, pressing Alt-Tab switches between all active and inactive windows. Contrast with active window.

The desktop isn’t iOS. On our Macs, we tend to open lots of apps and create new windows every minute, and we rarely remember to close them once we’re done with them. Unless you’re a serious window ...

Lifehacker reader David E. really liked a setting in the Linux XFCE desktop that gave inactive windows a dimmed, translucent look. With the power of AutoHotkey, he created a small script that offers ...

https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,76375-order,3/description.html is a tiny freeware utility that has a single, simple, function–if you hover your mouse ...

I thought I remembered seeing something about this glitch here at one time, but a search turned up nothing. I'm trying to find out how to fix this for a friend of mine.<BR><BR>Whenever he clicks on a ...

If you are a Windows user, you definitely know how to switch among the opened apps and how to minimize and maximize the opened windows. Almost all of us use the maximize and minimize buttons on the ...

The Windows Settings app of Windows 11 has an additional feature, the Activate on hover feature. You can adjust the time (in ms) needed to activate a window by hovering the mouse. Here are the steps ...