To shrink an application window down to an icon To do this, select the down-arrow button in the top right-hand corner of the window (or the first of the three buttons in a Windows 95 window) Minimising an application allows you to run several application allows you to run several applications at the same time, minimising the ones you're not using In Windows 3 1x the minimised applications appear as an icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen To go back to the application, double-click on the minimised icon In Windows 95, the application shrinks down to an icon on the status bar; you can switch back to the application with a single click on the icon
{f} make small, reduce; reduce as much as possible; make less important; play down; (Computers) make a window smaller to the point that only an icon remains in its place (also minimize)