Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to navigation of a scrollable desktop. In one embodiment, a user interface includes a scrollable desktop portion and a navigation portion. The scrollable desktop portion may display open applications, and the navigation portion may display representations of the open applications on the scrollable desktop with the relative position of the open applications on the scrollable desktop.

Abstract: A system and method of inter-process communication are described. An IPC process executable by a processing device includes data storage, a message receiver, a data extractor, and a message transmitter. The data storage is accessible by a second process without interaction of the IPC process and is configured to enable the second process to allocate storage space for data from a third process. The message receiver is configured to receive a message including a reference to data stored in the data storage by the third process. The data extractor is configured to access the data storage and to retrieve the data referenced by the message received by the message receiver. The message transmitter is configured to transmit a message including a reference to data retrieved by the data extractor.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to navigation of a scrollable desktop. In one embodiment, a user interface includes a scrollable desktop portion and a navigation portion. The scrollable desktop portion may display open applications, and the navigation portion may display representations of the open applications on the scrollable desktop with the relative position of the open applications on the scrollable desktop.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to creating an object group including object information for interface objects identified in a group selection mode. Examples include activating a group selection mode and receiving identification of interface objects displayed in different interfaces of a graphical user interface (GUI) in the group selection mode.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to gesture group selection. In one embodiment, a group selection of an icon is determined based on a direction, duration, and distance of a user gesture relative to a selected icon. The selected icon may be added to a group of selected icons. An operation may be performed on the group of selected icons.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for adjusting a user interface of a computing device. In various examples a size of the user interface is adjusted to accommodate application windows.

Abstract: A device to identify display parameters for layers of a user interface based on contextual information associated with an environment of the device, determine which of the layers are to be visible on the user interface based on the display parameters, and render the user interface on a display component to include the visible layers based on the display parameters.

Abstract: A screen capture system (46, 346) stores in a memory (40, 340) at least portions of screenshots of output (50) presented on a display screen (36, 336) by a source (30, 330) and presents the stored screenshots on the display screen (36, 336) when the source (30, 330) is not running.

Abstract: An exemplary method for handling a hidden dialog in a media centered graphical user environment is presented including: detecting the hidden dialog; determining whether the hidden dialog is an approved dialog; if the hidden dialog is an approved dialog, providing a notification to a user of the hidden dialog such that the media centered graphical user environment is interrupted; and if the hidden dialog is not an approved dialog, ignoring the hidden dialog such that the media centered graphical user environment is uninterrupted. In some embodiments, the hidden dialog originates from any WINDOWS™ compatible program. In some embodiments, the hidden dialog is a pop-up notification. In some embodiments, the approved dialog is user configurable. In some embodiments, the approved dialog may be: a programmatic subscription dialog, a programmatic update dialog, a programmatic alert dialog, and a system alert dialog.

Abstract: A system for optimizing an operating system startup process is described. The system includes a performance monitoring tool arranged to monitor a performance parameter of a computer system and a startup control tool arranged to control startup initiation of processes based on the performance parameter monitored by the performance monitoring tool. A method of optimizing an operating system startup process is described. A computer system performance parameter is monitored. Execution of a predetermined process by the computer system is enabled if the computer system performance is outside a predetermined threshold.