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Let’s pretend you are at work, now let’s pretend you are reading this post at work…or checking Facebook, not like anyone would do anything that is not work related while at work!  You hear your boss walking toward your desk and think “crap”, well the best tip anyone can ever give you is “Windows key + M“.  Pressing and holding the Windows key on your keyboard and then depressing M (think minimize) will quickly minimize all of your applications to the task bar.

Voila, Facebook hidden and crisis averted

Once your boss returns to wherever it was they came from, “Windows key + Shift + M” will return you to the same spot you were at before you were interrupted.

There is, however, a catch…if you minimize all (windows key +m) and then do anything else with your computer then restore (windows key + shift + m) doesn’t work, restore only works if the absolute last thing you did was minimize all.

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