Quickly minimize & maximize all open windows, or inactive windows only

Keyboard shortcuts are quite useful and make you work faster and more efficiently. There are several hotkeys or keyboard shortcut combinations which carry out different functions on your Windows 11/10/8/7 computer.

Minimize all open windows

Most Windows users know that, if you wish to suddenly minimize all your open windows, you can simply click on Win+M keys. Once you do that, all your open windows will get minimized to the taskbar.

To restore the windows back, you will have to press Win+Shift+M. But when you minimize all open windows using this keyboard shortcut, now when you right-click on the taskbar, you will see a new context menu entry Undo minimize all windows.

Clicking on Undo minimize all windows will also maximize all the windows again.

Minimize inactive windows

However if you want to only minimize your inactive windows, you can press instead the Win+Home key combo. You will find that all except your active windows will get minimized to the taskbar.

To restore the windows, just press Win+Home combo again.

Yet another small but handy tip for Windows users to know!

Which feature allows you to quickly minimize all open windows?

Windows 11, Windows 10, etc., versions of Windows come with a keyboard shortcut that allows users to quickly minimize all opened windows instantly. As mentioned in the article, you need to press Win+M to minimize them all at once. However, if you want to maximize all windows, you need to press Win+M again.

How do I minimize all windows except active?

To minimize all windows except the active one, you need to press the Win+Home buttons together. No matter whether you use Windows 11 or Windows 10, the keyboard shortcut remains the same. Also, it is mentioned that you can maximize those windows by pressing Win+M.

Go here if you need to close all open windows and applications in one click.