Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

35 CHAPTER 2 | Personalizing the Windows 10 experience Figure 2-18: When you snap a window to one side of the screen, Windows 10 displays thumbnails of other open windows so that you can choose which one to snap to the other side. Shake it The last little trick for manipulating the arrangement of windows on the screen is a technique called “Aero shake.” It’s a vestige from a bygone era, as the name suggests, but it works perfectly at its main task. When you’re working with a single window, you sometimes want to minimize all other windows on the screen. The Aero task gesture does exactly that: Aim the mouse pointer at the title bar of the window you want to keep in the foreground, and then click and hold as you move it back and forth, briskly but not violently. After a second or two, all windows except the current one minimize, letting you focus on the task at hand. To restore all windows to their previous position, repeat the “shake” gesture.