26. The system of claim 19 wherein: the ability to display a collapsed version of a dialog window is controlled by a selectable system icon displayed in a title bar of the dialog window; when the selectable system icon is selected as active, the ability, to display a collapsed version of the dialog window through further cursor movement without depressing a button of the dialog window, is active; and when the selectable system icon is not selected and is inactive, the complete dialog window is displayed and the ability, to collapse the dialog window through further cursor movement without depressing a button of the dialog window, is disabled.
19. A system for collapsing a dialog window of an application in a computer system comprising: (a) a computer; (b) a display device connected to the computer; and (c) a currently active application executing on the computer, the application configured to: (i) display a complete dialog window of the currently active application on the display device; (ii) determine a location of a cursor with respect to the dialog window; (iii) display a collapsed version of the dialog window in response to the cursor moving from within the complete dialog window to outside of the complete dialog window without depressing a button of the dialog window, wherein the collapsed version of the dialog window consumes a smaller area of the display device than the complete dialog window and wherein the collapsed version of the dialog window comprises a title bar of the dialog window; and (iv) display the complete dialog window only in response to the cursor moving from outside of the collapsed version of the dialog window to within the title bar of the collapsed version of the dialog window without depressing a button of the dialog window.