Right click on Show Desktop and Send To the desktop. Then click next. Open something on the desktop and click the new addition. The desktop will clear. Click again and the hidden item will reappear Thanks again David, for sending in the tip, much appreciated! If you've enjoyed this article or found it useful, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know by clicking the Like or Share button below. Thank you! Microsoft Edge says that password monitor securely checks your saved passwords.
Here's what you need to know and how to double-check for security. Read More. No, it has to do with change being forced on people and them not putting up with it.
How do i know this? The last few installs of XP i have seen this covert action. The software developers don't see reasons to update their software, since it will most probably work with all Windows versions for at least 15 years, which it will.
Nonesense, when there is a vuln that needs to be patched they will and you know it. Do you know what an unpatched,exposed and exploited vuln will do to a company? Read up on one called Gawker and see how they fare. Or how about the Chip and pin expose that ALL banks are vuln too?
I like being able to use hardware that i purchased not so long ago. I still have hardware that works that is nearly ten years old. Give me one reason why i should just abandon that hardware? Will you pay for my new hardware? You said you are 19 years old or i read that somwhere. Well, you have no clue about the real world son as we say in the UK and probably still live iwth mum and dad.
You have no idea mate. You live in you nice little bubble most likely. Who cares if the hardware still works its the drivers and software that matter. Grow up child and get out of that bubble every once in a while. WickedSun writes Nice, somebody else who likes the idea of customizing ones computer to suits one need.
I do similar things. But if you just pin them on the "new and improved" taskbar they will take up too much space too quickly since there is an aweful lot of waste bewteen the icons.
There are so many things wrong with the GUI it's not even funny. So funny i refuse to use it as a full time system since it is completely alien to me. Shall we talk about copying and pasting of auto arranged folders or files when i have trouble even dragging the selection caret around them?. That is a whole matter deserving of its own thread and my I do not have to use 7 will be the response i expect.
Guess what? I won't till some things are sorted. In the meantime i will show all my clients my 7 laptop and let them play around on it if they use XP. They can make up their own mind. If the reaction is anything like mine they will last less than 30 min. But to stay on topic i will add this Having now used Windows 7 full-time daily for a year, and coming up to speed on it before that during the public beta middle of I can honestly say I am a good bit more productive with Windows 7 than I ever have been with any other system in my life.
Is it because my current workstation is the most powerful computer I've ever had? Today I merged three large source code bases, stored the results back into Subversion, built and tested 3 products along with their installers, debugged a number of issues, created new products and options in our eCommerce system, kept up with customer support, talked and chatted using Skype, listened to music, watched several videos I had DVR'd with Media Center, Photoshopped a number of product images, interacted with people on forums, and more.
I had 40 or more windows most of the time open across two monitors. Current uptime of my system: 18 days, 6 hours, 49 minutes, 57 seconds. The only reboot it gets is when Windows Update requires it. Configure it as best you can, find some freeware apps to handle things the Windows UI doesn't do well, adopt a "make the best of it" attitude instead of "bash Microsoft", and just USE the damned thing for a while - it WILL grow on you.
Noel: I agree Windows 7 is what Vista should have been It's a good OS increment Finally. It just astonishes me that MS can so glibly break conventions that are so entrenched in billions of users. If they think there is a better way, fine include that as a default to 'show us what you got', but have a SIMPLE way to re-instate the old convention for the laggards, like me, who think a show-desktop at the bottom left is better for us And I have to say it The fact that you are proud of an 18 day uptime is a sad indication of what we have all gotten used to putting up with MS unreliability Personally, I think everyone was has got way too used to putting up with way too many annoyances from Microsoft.
Everyone has an expectation that some things won't work "perfectly", and that is a sad and unfortunate attitude for us to be going into the future with The fact the we haven't all got Desktops with blink-of-an-eye response times on common hardware and rock-solid reliability is an absolute travesty IMO.
Have you, before you started acting like a moron thought maybe we don't like or want aero peek? I'm in, the show desktop belongs on the left for all logical puposes. You belong in the unemployment line. You look more dumb than the people you're trying to make look dumb.
I can see no-one has quite answered your common question, and I came here looking for the same thing having just switched to Windows 7. The solution is simple and clean and not incompatible with the Aero Peek, left where it is , and looks like this:.
I hope this has been useful; if it has, please let me know as i did take a little while working out this hopefully universal fix. Sorry Kristaps,. Sorry Microsoft but Windows 7 rocks for everything but the desktop peak move to the right.
And to think how hard would it be to offer the option for us to choose where it is? Are you listening Microsoft??? I'm a PC!!! It took me a long time to figure out why every time I slid my mouse out of the way, to the right, as I've been doing for years, my whole screen got minimized. What an annoyance! Just by chance I found the "show desktop" at the far bottom right.
I asked myself, who would want that there? The answer, I thought, someone who's left handed. I Googled Bill Gates. Guess who's left handed? As I arrow down I look at the screen,not the mouse.
This is hilarious Your constant use of "obviously" is also hilarious, since you are so obviously wrong. The desktop shortcut needs to be back on the left side again. If you can't hit the start orb without activating aero hover, then the functionality of the shortcut button needs to be remedied.
Having the desktop shortcut on the complete opposite side of the screen from ALL of your other taskbar buttons is just ridiculous. Kristap's argument isn't even self-consistent. Maybe he could come back and try to make some sense. Probably more fun though if he just lets his hilarity stand as is.
And who the hell prefers 'on-hover' functionality for this feature and it being as " far away from other buttons as possible ", when a click on a more sensibly located control will be faster every time?!?! All good. Should just be a tick-a-box option in the Taskbar properties though in next version, please I don't use the desktop and therefore have no need for a "show desktop" button or a right-click option, or a shortcut.
I liked the button in XP, that I could delete. Of course, I also liked the separated desktop toolbar that I can no longer set up. Which replaced the office toolbar that you also discontinued. Thanks for fucking my GUI experience. I have been using and repairing Microsoft's operating systems for 24 years. We know the alternate methods. The bottom line is that the XP placement of the show desktop icon was an example of engineering perfection.
Redmond removed it in the default installation of Vista, but, not content to merely annoy us with having to un-hide it in Windows 7, they put it in a completely worthless part of the screen and made it impossible to either move or remove as well. If I'm working with only my mouse, as I do often, I shouldn't have to move my hands to the keyboard to see my desktop.
That's ridiculous. It would be easier to just minimize each window to get to my desktop. Now, when I want to show the desktop, I am forced to move my mouse into a corner of the screen where it easily gets hidden by the corner and becomes invisible, making me wonder if it is even there and having to "wiggle" it to locate its placement; where I sometimes hit the time and date icon by accident, forcing Windows to launch into a process and tying up my system for a brief moment; where it is completely removed from my start button and active taskbar icons; and where the wrist movement itself is uncomfortable and is almost certainly ergonomically unsound.
I found a solution. Option 2 of the following instructions WILL recreate a functional show desktop icon which you can place next to the Start button. But, it's usable. This is no criticism, just some idle thoughts on how you might want to consider working a little differently so that you just don't need "show desktop" functionality as much in the first place It occurs to me that if you're having to "sweep your desktop clean of all the mess" often enough to feel you need a dedicated button for it, then you may be leaving a lot of apps just laying around running that maybe you should consider closing instead of minimizing.
Doing so could net you some other efficiencies as well. In short, keep things tidy as you work, rather than waiting until the clutter is overwhelming. Another option, assuming you have a sufficiently large monitor, and if you're showing your desktop to access icons hidden behind open windows, is to arrange the icons along the top and bottom edges, then work with all your windows between them.
This way running apps don't as often cover up your ability to start new ones. Setting the Taskbar to auto-hide also may help with this as it makes a bit more vertical space available. Lastly, if you find you're consistently overwhelming your desktop and you're having to fight to get to all the applications you ARE actively using, consider getting a second display monitor. They're not hugely expensive any more, and having two monitors where you can look at things side by side, copy from one and paste in the other, and just overall have a lot more room to work can be VERY nice indeed.
That's all very well Noel, but we really shouldn't be forced to change our habits and I mean millions of us who got used to the Show Desktop feature , just because Microsoft thought it a good idea to mess with a perfectly good feature Multiple monitors are great, but if you actually use the new touted "Drag bottom-right and click" function to show desktop, it can fall apart completely with an extra monitor to the right!!!
The REAL issue I see here though, is that we are all so used to being screwed my MS that most of us don't even flinch anymore, instead we shrug our shoulders and try to find a work-around. At least there is a tiny minority speaking up Seems that no-one in MS is listening though It would have been nice if we'd had the option, but we simply don't and it's apparently not coming back soon.
So we must learn to adapt our ways and make the best of the tools we do have. And for the record I certainly don't feel "screwed by MS". When not trying to paddle upstream quite so hard one finds the system can be made to work quite productively and pleasingly.
This is a career software engineer who usually spends 16 hours a day in front of a workstation talking. Out of curiosity and this question is open to all , please describe the conditions under which you feel the need to Show Desktop. We'd all be a lot more efficient if we didn't have to adapt unnecessarily or 'make do' with non optimal designs.
If they are an irreversible change that is a gamble, guess or unnecessary tweak then they are just wasting a lot of people's time. The fact that explorer still freezes when I insert a CD is absolutely astonishing to me I am guessing it is not to you???
I don't intend to be offensive but the analogy is working for me - I fear Noel you are an extreme case of what I am alluding to. You have a blissfully unaware smile on your face even when MS are bending you over Perhaps next time you step away from your Windows desktop one day, maybe? There is Sooooo much of the latter around these days it is frightening. I wish everyone would I just know how to make Windows work for me, and work well.
I'm sorry that you don't - or won't learn how to do so. Could it be that Microsoft is just growing Windows in precisely the direction that I like to work? But I think it goes beyond that. A good musician will work around the quirks of his instrument, and the best will even take advantage of them to create a special sound no one else can.
I'm the first to get vocal about things that don't work right, or that I don't like, but by now I've worked around most all of them. It just works and it does what I need. I am fairly happy with my Windows7 setup now that I have fixed a few problems that MS delivered me. I am purely fighting this fight for the millions of users who are not so technically equipped as you and I to "work around them". I am sorry that you are so self-centred that you again blissfully ignore the plight of millions.
A big problem with the world today Sad, sad, sad Though Apple and Google are doing their best to change that, in some areas So who's taking an approach more likely to be helpful here The person trying to reassure the less technical users that it can be made to work well if they put a little effort into it, or the person who's making a mountain out of a molehill and criticising the first person for not being negative enough?
And don't look now but I have every bit as much right to be here and express my opinions as you do. Shall we talk about the stats showing who's helped more people? Keep some perspective here. No one is forcing you or anyone else to buy this stuff! You should be damned thankful that you can buy such technology for a few hundred bucks. Now, all people have to do is read about how to fix things up online e.
No, Mr. Microsoft Basher, let's talk Plight when the economy crumbles, government descends into anarchy, and people have some real things to worry about. Until then be thankful you are in the first generation to have the luxury to just sit on your butt and worry over such trivial things as which side of the screen the stupid button is on! You're literally about one billionth of the user base think how utterly insignificant that is.
Things simply have to be run a little differently when a company is that successful. I think pretty much all apps behave like that when a Modal window is up So, there's one answer even 2. I admit I struggle to think of when I need it But I know that I do need it. If I am starting a new work task, I often want to minimise the 1 or 2 or rather more windows I have open - Maybe email and an Explorer window.
Minimizing or closing each individually is painful. With the old location of the Show Desktop this can all be done from the bottom-left corner with a few clicks and minimal mouse movement.
Now it can't, and wide-screen monitors make it worse. Simply allowing the thing to optionally be on the left just to the right of the orb seems so easy and sensible Good point about hiding dialogs that normally wouldn't get out of the way I have two monitors so I'm rarely lacking for screen space, even when something persistent is up, so I don't notice that.
I often want to minimise the 1 or 2 or rather more windows I have open - Maybe email and an Explorer window. Because of that, I've never needed or used a Show desktop button. I find it much more convenient than pressing the button near the start button anyways. If is mid April , and I have been using Win7 since it was released actually in beta also and I still have not adjusted to the change.
Both the show deskop button and the start orb are beautifully positioned because you can move the mouse blindly to activate either. This is a real time saver. It makes sense to have the taskbar in the centre screen so the start orb is more central but I would much rather have the show desktop button in the bottom right of the far right screen so I can quickly access it without thinking.
Having to locate the button whether it is on the bottom right of my cenre screen, or where it used to be is costing me a lot of valuable time. Are there any solutions to this? Is there a keyboard shortcut I can use instead? Have you imagined, before trying to make other people look stupid, that some people would just as well turn off Aero and have the freedom to configure their environment as they choose?
Before responding, consider what question is being asked, and try to answer the question in a constructive manner;.
After all, someday soon you'll be an old person of 20 and some smarter, faster, better 17 year old will come along and outpace you.
Either that or some current 20 year old will kick your butt. Seriously, humility works I have been there, done that, it will suck less for you if you adjust to the world instead of expecting it to adjust to you. By now you're head has likely exploded with rage, or you heard my words Hope it is the latter. Is it really this hard to have the freedom to move the "show desktop" over to the left? Such a customisable operating system that fails to deliver on arguably, the most valuable button that everyone could rely on the wipe the slate clean and reset the game.
Having difficulty moving the quick launch button over to the side too if existing pinned items exist. Wow so much feedback, makes you wonder who is really in charge Changing well established basic functionality I couldn't read the whole page, Kris whatever I see many people have tried to talk some reason into you, lets hope you heard them, and asking someone else to code it if its so easy is a joke.
A small change to the code would probably fix it, but no one but MS has that code to begin with and they have been working on it for some 60 years.
How you got so many points is a testament to the broken nature of "votes" on the Internet. Most people aren't hands on the keyboard constantly, they are on the mouse. One handed operation is actually relaxing to do sometimes in 8 hours stretches I game.
I game alot so I ripped that damn key off my keyboard long ago, nothing worse than a popup or a window change while running any kind of time sensitive game.
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Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 User Interface. Sign in to vote. I don't understand why the show desktop button has been moved to the far right of the task bar.
For years it has been right next to the start button. This is really annoying. Is there any way to move it? If not, is there a place where i can send feedback about my complaints?
I'm running RC1 and I don't see anywhere to do that. Edited by zephxiii Wednesday, May 6, AM. Wednesday, May 6, AM. Hi, Based on my known, the button cannot be removed. Marked as answer by Mark L. Ferguson Sunday, May 10, PM. Thursday, May 7, AM. Not really the answer you were looking, i know, but as an intermediate 2nd posibility, remember that when you rightclick on the taskbar there is an option to show desktop. Im with you. The show desktop button has to be moved back by the start button.
It was in one convenient place in the past now your bouncing from one side of the screen to the other to show the desktop. There are a couple of ways you can make the Show Desktop icon more accessible.
We show both methods in Windows 10, but they will also work in Windows 7 and 8. The Quick Launch bar contains a Show Desktop option, so once you follow the steps in our article to bring back the Quick Launch bar, you should see the Show Desktop icon on the left side of the Taskbar. NOTE: You will need to have file extensions showing in order for this to work.
The following warning dialog box displays because you are changing the extension on the shortcut. Right-click on the dummy. Create a new text file in Notepad, or your favorite text editor, and copy and paste the following code into the new file. Right-click on the Show Desktop. On the Properties dialog box, enter the following path into the Target box on the Shortcut tab, making sure to keep the quotes around the full path. The quotes are required because there are spaces in the path.
You have your new icon on the Taskbar, but you might want to change the icon to something more appealing. Because there is no icon associated with the Show Desktop. No worries, though. Windows automatically selects the shell Initially, the icon may not change on the Show Desktop. However, restarting File or Windows Explorer will fix this.
For more on changing icons to something more unique, check out our guide to customizing icons in Windows , and chanaging icons for certain file types. Use Google Fonts in Word.
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