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I'm after a way to minimize the active window in Windows with a keyboard shortcut, just like cmd + m works on my Mac.

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Using the Windows Key + Down Arrow.

Update: If the window is Maximized, it will first go "Un-maximized" then a second Win + Down Arrow will Minimize.

Here is a link to all of the Windows Key Shortcuts available in Windows 7.

Edit (new link): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts

(for reference this was the old link): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts

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    When I do that, it first "unmaximizes" the window and then minimizes it. I guess that's ok.
    – chelmertz
    Jul 6, 2011 at 12:26
  • That doesn't do anything.
    – GrayFace
    Dec 19, 2023 at 21:30
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Minimizing single window is not possible via simple shortcut. However, you can use combination of two shortcuts Alt+Space followed by letter N.

Pressing Alt+Space opens the context menu for the current window and the keyboard mapping of the Minimize option is 'n'.

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    isn't that alt + space?
    – dsolimano
    Jul 5, 2011 at 14:21
  • Doesn't work for me, besides I already have Launchy hotkeyd as <kbd>alt+space</kbd> so that wouldn't work either.
    – chelmertz
    Jul 6, 2011 at 12:26
  • @dsolimano: typo, fixed now... Jul 6, 2011 at 23:30

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