How to Disable “show-desktop-on-hover” in Windows 7

Aero peek in actionThis feature of Windows 7 (its correct name is “Aero Peek“) is often hated by users that want to be free moving the mouse anywhere in the screen, without that anything happens.
The new “show desktop” corner in the right is a really good idea and I use it everyday, but I also prefer to click on it – when I want to minimize everything: it’s really rare that I want only to take a little… preview of what is going on my desktop.

Disabling only the “mouse over” version is really simple: just click with the right mouse button on the Windows Taskbar and choose “properties”, then uncheck the option “Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop“. That’s all! Now you can click on the show desktop button, but hovering it will do nothing.

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2 commenti

  1. James said:
    October 29th, 2010

    simple trick but very useful. i’m using Win 7 Ultimate. it’s great :)

  2. a said:
    January 31st, 2012

    Got here because I find this feature extremely annoying to. There is, however, a simpler way to get rid of it: just right-click on the show desktop button, and uncheck the “peek at desktop” option. Problem solved.

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