Minimize All Windows Except the One You Are Using in One Click

Every time we turn on the computer, we tend to open all kinds of applications on our desktop and accumulate a good number of open windows in a short time. This means that, without realizing it, we accumulate so many windows that when looking for the one we want to use, the task becomes complicated. We are going to show a simple trick in Windows 10 so that all open windows on the desktop are minimized at once except the one we want to use.

In this situation, the usual thing is to have to minimize one by one each open window on the desktop until leaving the one that we want to use at that time. However, thanks to one of the functions integrated in Windows 10, we can do this much faster, more comfortably and in just a few moments.

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We are referring to a function that many have probably already used more than once, although many others may not yet know it. Windows calls it Docking Windows , but many know it as Aero Shaker . A function, which in addition to allowing us to minimize all the open windows except the one we want to use, offers other functions such as being able to organize the open windows on our screen so that we can have several windows in view and without overlapping each other.

To do this, all we have to do is click on the window in question and drag it on one of the corners or sides of our screen. Automatically, we will be shown a silhouette of the place where the window would be placed, and we can later modify the size of each one of them. In this way, we can have several windows always in view and we can move through all of them without having the focus overlap each other.

Suddenly minimize all windows except one

With this function activated in the system, the first thing we have to do to send all the open windows to the taskbar, minimizing them, is to locate the application window that we want to use and click on it to bring the focus.

Once this is done, we click with the left mouse button on the window’s title bar and without dragging, we drag the window from left to right or from right to left several times. Automatically, we will see how all the open windows on the desktop disappear and we are left with only the one we have selected. Actually, what the rest of windows do in minimizing, they do not close , so we can recover them at any time without any problem.

Even if we repeat the same action again, select the window in which we have the focus and shake it from one side to the other, we will see how the windows that we had minimized with this same gesture will be shown again.

If we use a device with Windows 10 and a touch screen, we can do the same but with our own finger. We touch on the title bar of the window that we want to use and without letting go, we slide our finger, and the window, from one side to the other so that the rest of the windows are minimized.

How to enable or disable this feature in Windows 10

To activate or deactivate the Aero Shake or Dock windows function in Windows 10, these are the steps we must follow:

  • We open the Windows 10 configuration page. Win + I.
  • We enter the System option.
  • We select the Multitasking option.
  • Within the Work with multiple windows section , we slide the switch of the Dock windows option to the On or Off position depending on whether we want to activate or deactivate the function.

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With the function enabled, we will have the option to choose if we want the size to be automatically changed when docking a window to fill the available space, show the anchoring options next to the anchored windows and if we want the size of the Adjacent docked windows when resizing a docked window.