Apple Duo 270C Make a window larger or smaller, Active window, Size box Working on the Desktop

5.Click anywhere in the Macintosh HD window to make it the active window.

Notice that the solid lines now appear at the top of the Macintosh HD window. (The area containing the window title and the solid lines is called the title bar.) When windows overlap, the active window is the one that’s on top.

Active window

Make a window larger or smaller

Sometimes you want to make a window larger, so you can see more of its contents, or smaller, so it takes up less space on your screen. You can change a window’s size by dragging its size box or by clicking its zoom box.

1.Point to the size box in the lower-right corner of the (active) Macintosh HD window.

Size box

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