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Enable Aeroshake Feature To Minimize Unfocused In Windows XP And Vista

Windows 7 has been introduced with the new feature known as AeroShake. Using AeroShake you can minimize all unfocused windows in the background simply by shaking a working window with the mouse gesture. When you shake the window again, all the minimized windows are restored and then reopened original opened state and location.

The Aero Shake function is very useful and can be enabled in Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Just you have to shake back and forth by holding the left click on windows title bar, it automatically minimizes all the opened windows. Repeat the action again; minimized windows will be magically restored to its previous state.

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AeroShake feature is developed and written by bobbo33 in Auto Hotkey code. For reader’s beneficiary, new version of AeroShake 1.4 is compiled by MDL. To get excellent results, you can tweak some configuration options in AeroShake. For example, the option available for distance include calculation of the number which decides a space for mouse to travel and this space is called as “shake”. If you want to move mouse too much, you should reduce this value.

In addition to this, you can customize the title bar height (it is the vertical distance measured from the top of selected window), plus Quick Minimize (sets the animation effect for minimization). All these settings are changed on the configuration file named as AeroShake.ini. The configuration file is accessible via Settings and then right click context menu of an AeroShake icon situated in System Tray.

To Change The Hot Keys According To You Use Keyboard Tweaker

Many of the daily computer users might always use the hotkeys for faster and easier execution of any program. It works as a great charm when something needed to be open up faster and there remains no time to go through the normal process to open those program from start menu.

For such people, Keyboard Tweaker is just the appropriate tool kit. With the help of this tool called Keyboard Tweaker, you can assign a combination of keys of your keyboard to work as a hotkeys to open some programs like the way you want it.

It won’t cost anything, neither for downloading nor for the installing. Just download the software and launch it, later install it and you are good to go. As default they have already setup a combination of keys to open up some of the daily used programs, such as command prompt, calculator and lots more stuff like that. You can browse and set your own hotkeys for your own desired programs.

The keyboard tweaker works great with operating system such as Windows 2000, 98, 95, vista and Windows XP. As the functions can be customized and are easy to use, it is a powerful utility tool.