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Missing Properties Dialog Box
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Have you ever opened a Properties dialog box--for example, by right-clicking the desktop and selecting Properties--switched to another window, and then come back to the desktop, only to discover that the Properties box is gone? Chances are, you clicked the Show Desktop icon (on the Quick Launch toolbar) or pressed Windows-D. Either way, you're asking Windows 98 to reveal the desktop, meaning it sends all open windows to the Taskbar and any open Properties boxes off to oblivion.

Or so it seems. To reveal that hiding Properties box, press Alt-Tab to display all open windows. Still holding Alt, press Tab repeatedly until the icon representing the missing Properties box is highlighted (you'll know by the names at the bottom of the box). Release the keys, and there's that Properties box.

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