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Minimize all inactive windows in Windows 7 with a quick keyboard shortcut
Sometimes you may find yourself in the middle of a working day with your desktop cluttered by a zillion open windows. This can be distracting and make it difficult to focus on what you're doing right now. If you like using your mouse, you could use Aero Shake; just click the title bar of the window you're trying to focus on, and "shake" it around (move it from side to side quickly). All other windows would minimize, and you'd be left with just the window you want to see. But since this series is about the keyboard, here's how you do it without touching the mouse: hit Win+Home and every inactive window instantly minimizes. Presto! [Hitting Win+Home again un-minimizes every window! -Ed]
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Subscribe to commentsMJan 5th 2011 11:30AM
You can also do this minimize-all-windows with Windows + D, which is great 'cause they're near each other on the keyboard, and therefore can be done easily with one hand -- after a while, without looking.
Ben CarlsonJan 5th 2011 5:35PM
You can also grab a window by the title bar and shake it around to do the exact same thing (except a little more funky if you have a maximized window).