Q about hardish-to-google computer prollem

[ghostjmf]

OK, I would normally just look it up, but this is hard to google as it's hard to put into a small, succinct sentence that others might have used to describe the same problem (the key to googling Answers to Everything).

I'm on a PC computer I don't own, running Microsoft Whatever, & I hit something that made the control bars at top & bottom of screen disappear. If you move the cursor to the top of the screen that bar magically reappears, & you can use it to smallify your window, & do other things in other windows. Which you can now get to. But what the hell did I do to make this happen in the 1st place, & how do I undo it?

I've run into library computers in which this feature is already on, & I'd so love to turn it off on them, too.

Its part of minimizing & maximizing the window, that much I know. I currently seem to have this one under control, just by having hit the "smallify" (not the left button, which puts your window at the bottom of screen as an option; not the right button, which disappears your window (after asking politely if you mean to do this). But the "smallify" button in the middle.

[ghostjmf]

I seem to have fixed it for here, but I still want to know what I done/did to it in the 1st place. Wasn't just clicking the middle button; I've certainly done that in my life before.

[a1mamacat]

it is something ticked off/not ticked off on the tool bar menu?

I right click on the top bar, and it will list what I have showing on my toolbar.

Also, isn't there a hide toolbar options thingy?

[plasticene]

Hitting the F11 function key toggles Full-Screen mode in many browsers. It sounds like you may have hit that key by accident. If that's what happened, just hit it again to get your window back to normal.

[SportsFan68]

I agree with Plasticene.

[ghostjmf]

While I'm not going to do the experiment, I'd bet its that "hit F11 by accident" thing that happened. Thanks, plasticene. Saucy, I appreciate your suggestion, but I know I didn't actually mess with a "hide toolbar" option, because that would require more than 1 accidental hit of a key.