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• Activate App without Windowname
• Active Window Height and Width in Pixels
• Capturing info from Scrolling Screen
• Center Window Without Resizing
• Change Position of Message and Display Box
• Close all active Windows
• Close all windows of a particular application type
• Detecting Owner or Parent Window
• Distinguish between Two Windows with Same Name
• Explanation of Child Windows
• Figure out parent and child windows
• Figure out when an Untitled Window has Closed
• Find Windows Location on Remote Win95 Machine
• Get Active Child Window
• Get Array of Window Ids With Matching Title
• Get Process ID for Unknown Window Title
• Get the Size of the Active Window
• Get Unknown Windowname
• GetWorkArea Window Resize
• How to get a previously active window
• Hwnd to WinID Function Conversions
• Keep a Window On Top
• Loop Forever until a Window Appears
• Make Message non active window
• Minimize All Windows
• Obtain the Window Class Name
• Probe Windows Code
• Process depending upon Multiple Windows
• Reading Buttons and Child Windows
• Recognize when a Windows Close Box has Ungrayed
• Use WinGetActive to Get Active Window
• WinClose Question
• Window Information EXE Fails to Launch
• Window placement on multi monitor screen
• WinExist and WinWaitClose Problems
• WinIDGet to Handle Changing Window Name
• WinItemize and Dont Show System Hidden Windows
• WinItemize Return Order
• WinPlace on High Resolution Monitor
• WinPlaceGet and WinPlaceSet Negative Values Issue

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How to Minimize all Windows

Keywords:     winiconize minimize all windows

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Question:

Is there a way to minimize all windows using winbatch?

Answer:

There is a .SCF file in the Windows System directory that can 'show the desktop'. In other words, minimize *all* windows. This seems to work on *all* platforms *except* Windows NT 4.0, which doesn't seem to support this file.

showdesktop=strcat(DirWindows(1),"Show Desktop.scf")
If FileExist(showdesktop)
  ShellExecute(showdesktop,"",DirWindows(1),@NORMAL,"")
Endif

Or if you want to run this script on NT 4.0 or if the 'Show Desktop.scf' file doesn't exist. Give this a shot:

list=WinItemize()
count=ItemCount(list,@tab)

for xx=1 to count
   thiswin=ItemExtract(xx,list,@tab)
   if WinState(thiswin)==@HIDDEN then continue
   WinIconize(thiswin)
next

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Article ID:   W13372

Filename:   Minimize All Windows.txt

File Created: 2001:01:31:11:50:38

Last Updated: 2001:01:31:11:50:38