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Reverse Support -- Solving Task View problem u don't realize you have
Greetings,
I'm the newbie loon who got so sick of Tim C(r)ook's Apple I ditched that ecosystem altogether. I've had to come here and ask dumb@$$ questions but over the last year or so I've come up to speed. (Well... I'm still learning but I finally have a clue.)
Task view. That way you can make all your open windows present themselves in a pleasant easy to see way. So very OS X from so many years ago. Now --
-- I know that makes Windows people tense. Being told a feature was copied. Usually an expert will find a moment in PC history where "we did it first" and maybe you did but really nobody liked or used it. And Apple users LOVE it. Not because we're pinheads but because 'it just works'.
So when I saw it in Windows 10 I didn't moan or groan. Mac copies PC, PC copies Mac, Linux copies both. I don't give a flying monkey poo. All I care about is IF the feature rocks and IF I can have it too.
So. Back to Task View. Makes me feel like I'm home EXCEPT that the way you invoke it? Not so much. That little button in the task bar or the Windows + Tab button are both decent -- but slower than the Expose way of simply whipping your pointer into the top left corner. (Or corner of your choosing.)
WinXCorners adds this iFunctionality to Windows 10. I'm here to highly recommend you try it. If you think it's virus or malware bate tell me. Otherwise -- enjoy.
codigobit apps: WinXCorners Hot Corners for Windows 10
I know as PC types you may not get it after 10 seconds. Try it for 2 days. I'll bet in day 2 it will already be an old friend. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
You know how you can click in the bottom right corner of your PC window and all apps vaporize so that you can see the desktop? It's important to remember you have to click to do this. This is to prevent the Windows from accidentally going away. Yet adding that click ADDS a step just the same.
WinXCorners can do the same minus the click. It defaults to clear the screen lower right. Try it. Please.
One last thing. Action Center. I'm sure there's a key command to open it but I'd rather just... wait for it... stick my pointer in the top right corner of the screen. BOOM. That same motion gets rid of it too.
I hope someone will try and someone will get happy. It's a good thing.
p.s. There's a similar app called BetterDesktop (something like that). It does the same thing but uses it's own animation to move things around. And it's clunky and buggy. It's used by more people and so I thought WinXCorners was inferior. It's not. It's the other way around.
Last edited by The Pool Man; 15 May 2017 at 03:42.