To shrink an application window down to an icon. To do this, select the down-arrow button in the top right-hand corner of the window (or the first of the three buttons in a Windows 95 window). Minimising an application allows you to run several applications at the same time, minimising the ones you're not using. In Windows 3.1x the minimised applications appear as an icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. To go back to the application, double-click on the minimised icon. In Windows 95, the application shrinks down to an icon on the status bar; you can switch back to the application with a single click on the icon.
