By default, you can see that tray of shortcuts even when you have a window open, but when you maximize it (more on that in a moment) the window takes up the whole screen, obscuring the row of apps at the bottom.

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Windows 95 featured the first appearance of the Start menu, taskbar, and minimize, maximize, and close buttons on each window.

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