One thing I like about Mac OS X is that it's very easy to minimize an open application window using just the keyboard. Just use the [Apple][M] keystroke when you're focused on a window you want to minimize, and the window shrinks down to the dock. When I work on a Microsoft Windows computer at work this is a feature I really miss.
There is no obvious way on Microsoft Windows using just the keyboard to minimize an open window. You can type something like [Windows][D] to display the desktop, but that minimizes every window simultaneously, and that's not what I want.
Key sequence to minimize a window
The one way I have found to minimize a window on Microsoft Windows using only the keyboard is a brief sequence of keystrokes: [Alt][spacebar], followed by [N]. The first part of that command ([Alt][spacebar]) opens the menu on the upper-left side of the window, and the second part of the command (the letter N), selects the Minimize option from that menu.
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