{"id":19976,"date":"2020-09-07T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=19976"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:57:26","slug":"the-show-desktop-button-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-show-desktop-button-on-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; Button on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>The &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; Button on Windows 10&#8230;and more ways to show the Desktop<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The show desktop button has its roots in Windows XP. In Windows XP it looked like a button. See?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/show-deskttop-xp.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows tips and tricks\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It lost weight in Windows Vista and in Windows 7, but it still looked like a button. In Windows 10, it&#8217;s gotten downright skinny. Look at the very bottom-right corner of your taskbar &#8211; to the right of the clock &#8211; to the right of the Action Center icon&#8230; see it? At the very right edge of your taskbar is a skinny strip &#8211; a sliver of a button. Just click it to minimize all open windows and bring your desktop into focus. We call it the show desktop button. You can call it whatever you like. How about &#8220;Tiny&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See the tiny strip along the right edge? That&#8217;s the show desktop &#8220;button&#8221; on Windows 10. Aye! It is, I tells ya!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/show-deskttop.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows tips and tricks\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another tip. If you hover over the &#8220;show desktop button&#8221; and you have &#8220;Use peek to preview the desktop&#8221; set as your preference in <em>Settings &gt; Personalization &gt; Taskbar &gt; &#8220;Use peek to preview the desktop<\/em>&#8220;, you&#8217;ll be able to peek at the desktop without minimizing any open windows. It makes all open windows transparent. See?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/peek-at-deskttop.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows tips and tricks\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Oh&#8230; my wallpaper? That&#8217;s a place I&#8217;ve never been to, but it&#8217;s pretty, ain&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s Reedy Island, in <a href=\"https:\/\/mapcarta.com\/22600240\">Moneyboque Bay<\/a>, Long Island, New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">BONUS TIP: Want more ways to show your Windows 10 desktop?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hold down the Windows Key and tap the &#8220;D&#8221; key to show the desktop. Press Windows Key + D again to restore all your open program windows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hold down the Windows Key and tap the &#8220;M&#8221; key to minimize all open windows and view the desktop. To restore all the open windows, use Windows key + SHIFT + M.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; Button on Windows 10&#8230;and more ways to show the Desktop The show desktop button has its roots in Windows XP. In Windows XP it looked like a button. See? It lost weight in Windows Vista and in Windows 7, but it still looked like a button. In Windows 10, it&#8217;s gotten downright skinny.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-show-desktop-button-on-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,10],"tags":[1104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19978,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19976\/revisions\/19978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}