Do you tend to open a lot of windows on your PC and your screen often ends up very cluttered? Windows has a handy little feature to instantly clear the space.
While Windows is often criticized for many aspects, multitasking management is an area in which it particularly excels. Microsoft’s operating system was designed from the outset, as its name suggests, around the concept of windows, allowing you to display and use several programs or applications simultaneously.
Over time, Windows has been regularly enriched with functions dedicated to window management, to make it ever more practical and efficient. For example, the OS has a self-arrangement mechanism, allowing several windows to be automatically distributed across the entire screen surface, or a virtual desktop system, in order to create different spaces for each type of activity.
Despite all the tools available to organize your computer’s desktop neatly, it often happens that you open many windows at the same time, and that your screen ends up a little cluttered. And hiding all the applications one by one by clicking on the appropriate button quickly becomes tedious. Fortunately, Windows has a very practical function that allows you to hide all the windows at once, except the selected one, by simply shaking your mouse!
Oddly enough, this feature is disabled by default and requires a quick trip to Windows Options. First, open the Settingsclick on the section System in the vertical menu on the left, then on the box Multitasking in the middle list. Finally, click the switch to the right of the option labeled Shaking the title bar window.
Once this option is enabled, you can simply click on the title bar of any window and, while holding down the click button, shake your mouse to instantly hide all other windows on the screen! And if you repeat the operation a second time, all minimized windows will automatically return to their original location.
This simple function allows you to empty your desktop in the blink of an eye, when you need to focus exclusively on a single task. Be careful though, if you use it on your Internet browser, make sure to click on an empty area of the title bar, and not on a tab, because it could then open in a new window… and clutter up your desktop even more instead of airing it out!