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===System menu===

The system menu (also called the window menu or control menu) is a [[popup menu]] in [[Microsoft Windows]], accessible by left-[[click]]ing on the upper-left [[icon (computing)|icon]] of most windows, or by pressing the Alt and Space keys. This menu provides the user with the ability to perform some common tasks on the window, some in atypical ways. For example, normally a user would move a window by dragging the [[title bar]] of the window - but with the option in the system menu the user gets a different cursor and procedure to move the window with.

Some applications customize the system menu, typically through the GetSystemMenu [[WinAPI]] function.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/menus/menureference/menufunctions/getsystemmenu.asp|title=GetSystemMenu API documentation on MSDN|accessdate=2006-05-24}}</ref> [[Cmd.exe]] is an example of this and offers the user an ability to change its preferences through its system menu (other applications typically offer the user to change their preferences through the normal menu below their window's title bar).