Minimize all windows

is there a quick way to minimize all windows on OS X 10.6.6? I am aware of the function to hide all windows in a given app e.g safari, but it would be good to hide all windows at once, so I can get to the desktop.

Four finger swipe with upward motion or fn - F11 is the same thing.
See your -->System Preferences-->Trackpad for options.

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Generic code to minimize all windows in a form

I want to write a procedure to minimize all windows in a form. This procedure will be called from a menu item.
This can be done by using SET_WINDOW_PROPERTY built-in by hardcoding window names in the form and setting the window state to MINIMIZE.
The requirement is, the code should be generic. So that, if it is called form the menu item, it will do minimizing of all windows in the current form.
Hope no form built-ins are available to get the list of window names in a form.
The requirement can be done by using FORMS The. I doubt it will not work for three tier architecture. Any alternate ways to get a solution?

You can loop through all blocks and items and collect the used window names.

What is the mouse gesture to minimize all windows?

I am having trouble understanding the mouse gesture that minimizes all windows back into the dock. I keep on doing something which causes this to happen and I cannot figure out or find anywhere what this gesture is.

Do you mean ctrl-clicking the Composite Channel icon in the Channels Panel?

Minimize all windows at once?

I've got the Browser, Viewer, Canvas and Timeline windows open in the standard arrangement, and want to minimize them all so I can work on something else for a minute. I know how to minimize each window one at a time, but is there some way I can minimize them all with one command?

Cmd-H will hide the app. Cmd-tab will toggle between open apps.

HT2307 How can you shut off the option command click shortcut that minimizes all windows?

I can't find a place to turn off the option click shortcut that minimizes the last window and option command click that minimizes all of the other windows. Is there a way to do this? They don't show up (or I can't find them) in the Dock Preferences or the Keyboard Shortcuts.

I use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and that's the zoom shortcut keys with space. If I use another program on my second monitor and go back to that and want to zoom in it minimizes everything else.
Why reply if you don't know?

Can't minimize all windows with alt, c, M

Is this option, command and letter M? It doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong?

As far as I know there is no global minimize command that will affect all open windows for all programs, all at the same time.
Is it possible that the person at the Apple Store was showing that a bunch of open windows for folders, i.e. Finder windows, could all be minimized at once? Since Finder is considered a program for things like this, then Command-Option-M will minimize all open folder windows (provided Finder is the active app) simultaneously.
Hiding windows is a different thing.
When a program's windows are hidden, they seem to disappear but are not minimized to the Dock. The basic command for this is Command-H. Pressing that combo will hide the windows for the current active app and switch active status to the next open app.
The Option key and clicking can be used to do this. For example, with one or more windows open in TextEdit, Option-click on the Desktop - all of TextEdit's windows will disappear (get hidden) and the active program will switch to Finder.
HIdden windows can be made to re-appear by clicking the icon for the program in the Dock, thus switching the 'active' status to that program.
You can hide all windows except for a chosen active program in one action - with that program frontmost (active), press Command-Option-H. You can accomplish the same effect by holding down Command-Option and clicking in a window for the app whose windows you want to remain visible - windows for all other open programs will be hidden.

HT2474 how to minimize all windows in one entry

How do i Minimize all open windows at the same time.
(minimize them into the dock)

Hi there,
Actually it doesn't!
I'm on latest OSX - F11 lowers the volume!
However, I think you have assigned your F keys as standard function keys but even so, if you press F11 or fn + F11, you do not minimise the windows - you just spread them away. As soon as you open an app, all the screens come back!
What the original poster's question is "Is there a way of minimising ALL the windows at the same time onto the dock?"
Your method doesn't do that because if you look closely, the windows are at the top and on the side AND NOT IN THE DOCK.
Maz

Right click on firefox at bottom bar no longer shows minimize all windows option

using 3.5.7 because the new version is a memory hog and had other unusual problems esp with flash - have not upgraded (FF, OS etc) anything but this option suddenly disappeared. using Win 7.

hello trader776, please try to unpin the firefox icon from the taskbar and then pin it again by right-clicking the entry in the start menu/desktop.

I pressed Windows-M to minimize all screens, then Firefox 6.0.1 (Win XP VM) started to open large number ( 70 in a few seconds) of new Firefox windows (stopped only when I killed the Firefox process with Task Manager). Firefox had no focus at that time.

Windows XP 64-bits Virtual Machine, ServicePack 2, 4MB of RAM, dual processor running on a Windows 7 64-bits host machine, ServicePack 1, 8MB, 8-core processor.
I have worked with that for half a year, no particular issues.
I was working in other program in my VM (so Firefox had no focus) , then wanted to view my VM desktop, so I pressed Windows-M to minimize all windows in my VM. Exactly at that time Firefox 6.0 started to issue new empty Firefox windows, at a pace of about 4 or 5 per second. So I killed the firefox.exe process in my TaskManager to prevent my machine of running out of memory. Then I started Firefox again, without further issues so far.

I'm a Chrome user by choice. I use Firefox for two reasons only:
1) Speedbit video downloader
2) A second browser to handle secondary Google and Facebook sign-ins.
If I remove Speedbit, I lose 50% of my reason to use your browser at all.
Speedbit and Firefox worked together just fine before version 19.
PLEASE PROVIDE A PATCH. DON'T BLAME SPEEDBIT.
Thank you.

Minimizing all windows

it says here,
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
that to minimize all windows it's option-command-M....
but in my mac option-command-M is not minimizing windows.. it worked the first time or two I tried, about a week ago, now it does not work at all anymore.. command-M minimizes window I'm on, but option-command-M is completely ignored...
I really hate not being able to minimize all windows quickly, regardless of what program I'm in (and without having to go to Finder first..
10.6.3
thank you...

command-option-w does all windows in an application.
the other shortcut only works in Application Services aware applications.
There several Mac window manager applications that are nonApplevon http://www.macupdate.com
just make sure they are 10.6.3 compatible first, and learn how to remove or upgrade them before upgrading your operating system

I think there is a problem with the latest version of Firefox. When you minimize one window (doesn't matter how many tabs) on Mac, it automatically minimizes all of the other open windows. This never used to happen.

Whenever you have multiple windows open - say one is your Gmail account and the other is a bunch of pages you're using at work - and then you go to minimize the window with Gmail but intend to continue working on the other open windows. Using Command-M (the minimize shortcut for Macs) unfortunately now sends all open windows to the minimize bar in the lower right. Which means - every time I go to look at Gmail, then put it away, I have to reclick to open all of the other windows I was working in. Can this be fixed? It never used to happen.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I upgraded to the latest version of Firefox

Because OS X 10.4* does not have what is needed by Firefox 4.0 and newer.
Linux users are in a similar boat also as they need certain package versions within the last few years as LTS distros (with outdated packages from 4+ years ago) like CentOS is a bit screwed on newer applications like Firefox 4.0. By your logic Mozilla should also support Linux packages from 10 years ago also which would be a really ridiculous thing to do.
I think only the 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7 is really supported or will be rather when it comes to 64-bit builds (still not officially supported yet).
Mozilla is still supporting Firefox 3.6 with updates, in which 3.6.16 can be found at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Minimize All Open Windows

Hello:
I am using Photoshop CS2 on Win XP machine and was wondering if there was a keystroke to minimizing all open windows or can that be set up in custom keystrokes.

ALL open windows, or all open document windows within Photoshop?
To minimize ALL open application windows, press and hold the left "Windows" key. While holding that key, press "M". The "Windows" key is the quad twisted square key, usually between the Ctrl and Alt keys. Some people actually think the key looks like the Windows logo.
(has nothing to do with Photoshop)

Whenever I launch a new Google window, Google immediately re-opens all other windows I happen to have open but minimized. I then have to either close or re-minimize each window, one at a time. What a pain!!

Whenever I launch a new Google window, Google immediately re-opens all other windows I happen to have open but minimized. I then have to either close or re-minimize each window, one at a time. What a pain!!

Just to address the last point: check your History menu to see whether you have the Restore Previous Session option and use that if you can. If that is grayed out or doesn't restore everything, check the Recently Closed Windows and Recently Closed Tabs lists for other pages.
The unwanted window may be generated by an add-on. Try disabling ALL nonessential or unrecognized extensions on the Add-ons page. Either:
* Ctrl+Shift+a
* "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
In the left column, click Extensions. Then, if in doubt, disable.
Usually a link will appear above at least one disabled extension to restart Firefox. You can complete your work on the tab and click one of the links as the last step.
Any improvement?
Here are some other things to check:
(1) user.js file that changes Firefox startup behavior and overrides your preferences. This article describes how to track that down and delete it if you have one: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]].
(2) Possible hijacked shortcut. Check the "target" of the desktop icon you use to start Firefox to see whether it lists the unwanted page. To do that:
right-click the icon > Properties > Shortcut tab
For 64-bit Windows 7, the Target should be no more and no less than this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
(3) Possible undisclosed bundle items. If you have installed any free software recently, check your Windows Control Panel, Uninstall a program for surprises. If you click the "Installed on" column head to group by date, it is easier to spot bundled junk. Remove everything suspicious or unrecognized.
(4) Supplemental clean up scans. Our support article lists tools other Firefox users have found helpful: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]].
Hopefully that cures it.

When I have my Firefox browser running, if I bring up a document from my computer, it appears briefly, then disappears behind the browser. It shows in the taskbar, but won't stay on top until I minimize all other windows.

When I have my Firefox browser running, if I bring up a document from my computer, it appears briefly, then disappears behind the browser. It shows in the taskbar, but won't stay on top until I minimize all other windows.

Hi NicoMan,
According to your description ,we seem to suffer a performance issue here.
Have you tried to open the task manager to check the system performance ? Is there any specific process occupied many system resources ?Will the issue occur only with the specific applications ?
We can try to restart the Windows Explorer process to have a check.
If it only occurred with the spefcific two applications ,we can try to end the other application processes manually from the task manager to have a check .
If this is caused by the specific application ,we may need to look for help from the third party support considering they are all the third party applications .
Best regards
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How can I minimize all FC Windows

Is there a way to minimize all the FC windows at the same time instead of doing them 1 at a time?
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-Dweinin

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