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60 Windows 8 tips, tricks and secrets:


http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/50-windows-8-tips-tricks-and-secrets-1028220

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It will be a long time before I leave Windows 7, but a friend of mine went
> out and  purchased a new computer with Windows 8 on it.
>
> She wants to know how to close a window after she's done with it. For
> example, she says she uses a link to go to an email message, and, after she
> is done with it, she doesn't know how to get out of it.  She says that
> there's "no red X to click on," and that she's had to turn the machine off
> to get out of it.  Sometimes that doesn't even work, as it goes back to what
> she was reading.
>
> I told her to get "Windows 8 for dummies" or something, but she's been
> confused in the past by computer books, and she's the type of person to not
> sit still long enough to read through a book.
>
> So, how do you close a window after you're done with it?
>
> Is there anywhere online that has a very simple outline of the basic 8
> functions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dean Kukral
>
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