How did my open windows display as thumbnails on Desktop?

[VermontGreg]

I was moving my keyboard around and must have accidentally hit a key
combination that made all the windows of the programs I was working with
appear like large thumbnails in a nicely-spaced array on my screen. It was
really neat and I'd like to know how I did it! I've been searching
everywhere for documentation for this to no avail.
Can you help?

 

[Ray Parrish]

I don't know the keyboard shortcut for that, but here is a link that
tells you how to do it with the mouse. It's called "tiling" windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager

Later, Ray Parrish

 

[xxxxx]

I was moving my keyboard around and must have accidentally hit a key
combination that made all the windows of the programs I was working with
appear like large thumbnails in a nicely-spaced array on my screen. It
was
really neat and I'd like to know how I did it! I've been searching
everywhere for documentation for this to no avail.
Can you help?

Hit the Ctrl key while scrolling your mouse. When you have the size you
want, close the window by hitting the Ctrl key while hitting close. The
window will then open up at the size you've closed it at.

 

[JD]

I was moving my keyboard around and must have accidentally hit a key
combination that made all the windows of the programs I was working with
appear like large thumbnails in a nicely-spaced array on my screen. It was
really neat and I'd like to know how I did it! I've been searching
everywhere for documentation for this to no avail.
Can you help?

Alt-Tab?

 

[Gary Brandenburg]

I know that pressing the middle scroll wheel of the mouse will do this, with the
"Microsoft Intellipoint" mouse software installed.

~Gary

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I know that pressing the middle scroll wheel of the mouse will do this, with the
"Microsoft Intellipoint" mouse software installed.

What pressing the scroll wheel does is optional. There are a bunch of
choices and what it does depends on which you choose for it.