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. Exposé: Death to Window Clutter In its day, the concept of overlapping windows on the screen was brilliant, innovative | . Exposé Death to Window Clutter In its day the concept of overlapping windows on the screen was brilliant innovative and extremely effective. Apple borrowed this idea from a research lab called Xerox PARC. In that era before digital cameras MP3 files and the Web managing your windows was easy this way after all you had only about three of them. These days however managing all the open windows in all the open programs can be like herding cats. Off you go burrowing through the microscopic pop-up menus of your taskbar buttons Windows or the Dock Mac OS X trying to find the window you want. And heaven help you if you need to duck back to the desktop to find a newly downloaded file for example or eject a disk. You ll have to fight your way through 50 000 other windows on your way to the bottom of the deck. Exposé represents the first fresh look at this problem in decades. The concept is delicious With the press of the F9 key Mac OS X shrinks all windows in all programs to a size that fits on the screen Figure 5-4 like index cards on a bulletin board. You click the one you want and you re there. It s fast efficient animated and a lot of fun. Note On the superth in aluminum Apple keyboards use the F3 key instead of F9. The painful details are in the box below. TROUBLESHOOTING MOMENT A Tedious Sidebar about the Aluminum Apple Keyboards Do you have the superthin aluminum Apple keyboard the wireless one or the aluminum iMac one If so the keystrokes described in this chapter don t not work. On that keyboard the F9 F10 and F11 keys the keys you need for Exposé are mapped to the Mac s speaker volume Fortunately the most often used Exposé function the one that exposes all open windows at once has its own special key on this keyboard the F3 key. So you re covered there press F3 instead of F9. But what about the other two Exposé functions normally triggered by F10 and F11 Method 1 Add the Control key to Exposé one application s windows only or the key to see the desktop .