July 23, 2003, 11:06
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Settler
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A way to hide Civ 3 at work?
Does anyone know of a simple way to quickly hide Civ 3?
I like playing it at work but what I need is a way to maybe press one button and have it close immediatly or have another program pop over it. Or is there a way to play it in windowed mode so I can just minimize it?
(I think you get the idea of why and what I'm trying to do here:-) )
Thanks George
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July 23, 2003, 17:17
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King
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Hit the windows key, that should bring up the desktop.
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July 24, 2003, 13:03
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Settler
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not quite
That's what I'm currently doing..
I'm using windoes xp so I don't know if that makes a difference but...
When I hit the windows key. the start menuu and task bar come up in front of civ but civ is still there. At that point I have to point to the task bar and switch programs.
What I wanted to do was just hit one key and have something (work related) come up.
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July 24, 2003, 16:00
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Settler
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If you have any other programs up, all you need to do is hit Alt-Tab, and Windows will activate the next program in its queue. I do that at home when I don't want my wife to know that I'm playing, so I don't have to hear her nag! 
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July 25, 2003, 08:00
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Prince
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ALT+TAB is actually the best solution I know.
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July 25, 2003, 21:33
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Settler
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Thanks for the help
ALT-TAB works great.
I was even able to program my middle scroll mouse button to ALT TAB. Now when someone come in I just press the mouse button.
Thanks again.
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July 26, 2003, 21:40
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Deity
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Originally posted by oxen
If you have any other programs up, all you need to do is hit Alt-Tab, and Windows will activate the next program in its queue. I do that at home when I don't want my wife to know that I'm playing, so I don't have to hear her nag!
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/me points and laughs 
what's whishzzing sound in the back I hear btw???  
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July 26, 2003, 22:55
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Emperor
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Re: Thanks for the help
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Originally posted by grdecker
ALT-TAB works great.
I was even able to program my middle scroll mouse button to ALT TAB. Now when someone come in I just press the mouse button.
Thanks again.
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 have to try that 
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