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I'm always accidentally minimizing most of my windows. This is really annoying. How do I disable Aero Shake?

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What is Aero shake? – asjo Jul 25 '09 at 1:53
You can grab an application window by the titlebar and "shake" it to minimize all other applications. istartedsomething.com/20081103/… – Jared Harley Jul 25 '09 at 3:40
It's also worth mentioning that you can re-shake the window to bring all the windows back up. I was looking to disable the feature until I discovered that. – Phil Mar 5 at 17:08
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The best way to do this is to use the Group Policy editor. Go into the start menu, type in gpedit.msc, and hit enter. When it comes up, go into User Configuration -> Administratrive Templates -> Desktop.

In here you'll see a settings called "Turn off Aero Shake window minimizing mouse gesture". Set this to enabled and no more Aero Shake.

Here's a picture of the Group Policy Editor, with the setting highlighted:

Group policy editor screen for disabling Aero Shake

Another option is to edit a key in the registry. If you don't have Group Policy Editor for some reason (lower end Windows 7 edition), this might be your only option. There's a downloadable reg file that will handle this automatically from the How-To Geek.

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Either that or edit the registry. I prefer this method. – TheTXI Jul 24 '09 at 13:00
Added that in. I figure the Home editions of 7 might not have Group Policy Editor like in Vista. – matthews Jul 24 '09 at 13:19
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If you don't want to touch the registry (or GPE), download Ultimate Windows Tweaker which allows you to to turn it off in the 'Personalization' settings (along with lots of other TweakUI type stuff).

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