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Tasmanian Devil

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15. I'm not a windows person

Wed Feb 11, 2026, 05:28 PM

23 hrs ago

I've no clue, so I asked Claude about what you saw. It said this about 'hiding all open windows'. You might have hit window-d ....

Native Windows options:

Minimize all windows: Right-click on the taskbar and select "Show the desktop" or use the keyboard shortcut Win + D. This minimizes all open windows at once, though it's not quite the same as hiding.

Pressing Win + D toggles between showing the desktop and restoring all your minimized windows back to their previous state. So if you've minimized everything with Win + D, hitting it again will bring all those windows back.

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