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My Win 7 is installed on my laptop. When I use my mouse I am not always on a flat surface (ie on a couch or something like that) when I let go of my mouse to type it often moves a bit. When it does this it will often end up on the lower right hand corner of the screen. That causes all the windows to disappear!

This is super frustrating. Is there a way to just turn that "Feature" off?

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  1. Right-click on the "Show Desktop" button in the lower right corner
  2. Click "Peek at desktop" to uncheck it

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    Oh. My. GODS! This is so annoying!!! Before I start a rant how i HATE HATE HATE HATE this feature , let me tell you that this solution ALSO works on Windows 10! No-one has picked up on that little tid bit in 4 years. Jul 6, 2017 at 16:02
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This has not helped me at all. In order to change this rather annoying feature you will need to right click the properties of the task bar and deselect the Use Aero Peek option.

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    You can also right-click the area at the bottom-right itself, and deselect the peek option. Same solution, it just saves one step.
    – Paul
    Jun 18, 2013 at 13:30
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To be clear, put the mouse IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER where it shows the desktop, THEN right click, and click to deselect the 'PEEK' feature.

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  • For the win! Yes! I wish I could upvote you twice. That did the trick. Thank you, @Kiara
    – SDsolar
    May 4, 2017 at 17:00

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