Comments on: How to Show Desktop in Windows 7 (Quick Launch Alternative)

By: DH

DH — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:48:21 +0000

Good tip, it can’t be identified easily. I found it by chance hovering over each icon. However, I still believe re-enabling Quick Launch is the more intuitive way to go:

1. If one has actually used Show Desktop before, then it would be expected to be in the same location: bottom left near the Start button.

2. It’s a horrible design to put two of the most used features on the opposite ends of the screen (i.e. Start button and Show Desktop).

3. If most of the common functions are left-justified (e.g. taskbar, Start button, etc.), why is that frequently used function sitting alone at the far right of the taskbar? It’s already annoying to move the mouse across the screen just to show the desktop, it’s even more so when I’m on the laptop using the touch pad.

Anyone know how to move this new button to the left OR remove it from taskbar (I don’t really like having 2 Show Desktop buttons after re-enabling Quick Launch)?

By: kmh

kmh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:27:07 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! I was lost w/o this!!

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By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:16:09 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been looking for the way to show the Desktop for a while!

By: jc

jc — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:42:24 +0000

thanks for the tip, just googled here!

By: JohnnyCaraveo

JohnnyCaraveo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:49:20 +0000

Great Tip, I missed that and was looking for it. Thank you!