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The Title Bar is a solid colored bar shown horizonally across the entire top of a Window.  This bar contains a description of the window on the left side of the screen and can be dragged to move the window. The title bar contains window controls such as the close box, minimize and maximize controls, zoom box, and collapse box. There are three small Buttons located in the top right corner of the title bar.

The first button is Minimize / Restore Up. The Minimize / Restore Up is a box in the title bar of a window that, when pressed, causes the window to disappear, shrinking down to a button in the taskbar. The button or icon can later be clicked to cause the window to expand again to its original location. When the screen is maximized, the image is a single line at the bottom of the button and the function is Minimize. When the screen is minimized, the image is a double window and the function is restore up.

The second button is the Maximize/Restore Down. The Maximize/Restore is a box in the title bar of a window that, when pressed, toggles a window's size between a user-selected size and the entire screen size. When the screen is smaller than full screen, the image is a single window and the function on click is Maximized. When the screen is maximized to full screen, the image is a double window and the function on click is Restore Down.

The third button is Close. This is a small box containing a "x" of a window which is used to close the selected window.