A way to hide Civ 3 at work?

[grdecker]

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

[Sheik]

Hit the windows key, that should bring up the desktop.

[grdecker]

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.

[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!

[Nym]

ALT+TAB is actually the best solution I know.

[grdecker]

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.

[alva]

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!

/me points and laughs

what's whishzzing sound in the back I hear btw???

[asleepathewheel]

Re: Thanks for the help

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.

have to try that