Mac computer desktops are aesthetically beautiful and have different characteristics from Windows desktops, including some very useful features such as Exposè (today it is called HotCorners). When there are many windows open on the screen, all superimposed on each other or iconic and hidden, HotCorners allows you to manage them very quickly, giving the opportunity to make the window you want to look and jump from one to the other appear on the screen. On Windows 7 you can achieve the same effect as HotCorners through an additional tool that uses the four extreme corners of the screen to perform some predefined actions.
Although Windows 7 already has its Aero Peek to order the size and position of windows automatically when they are moved to the edges of the screen, and although there are many tools to manage Windows windows in different ways, this program allows you to use HotCorners on Windows 10 and Windows 7, to activate customized actions of any kind, which works so well as to push me to recommend their use to everyone.
The Hot Corners program for Windows 10 is the best of this type. HotCorners is set to start automatically by default, you need to manually delete its EXE from the Startup folder if you want to disable automatic execution. The program is located in the system tray and must be configured before using it. HotCorners select the actions and there are four actions to choose from, one for each corner: shutdown, disconnection, lock, screen off, Task Manager, Mute, Wake up audio, Desktop, All windows (Activity View) and Custom App.
Another program that activates the HotCorners is Win7SE which allows you to use the corners of the screen to have the quick selection of the windows as happens when you press the key combination Alt-Tab or with Windows-Tab . If you move the cursor to the bottom left corner, the last window selected before the one currently displayed appears, the screen is darkened at the bottom while the desktop is shown at the top right and Windows hides all open windows .
Win7SE should only be downloaded, extracted from the zip archive and then launched without any installation. His activity is shown by the icon in the taskbar, near the clock and, immediately, you can move the mouse to the corners of the desktop to see what happens. By pressing the left button on the Win7SE icon, you can access the options and customize the actions to be started automatically when the cursor is moved to the corners. Among the selectable actions there are : display of all windows as in Atl-Tab, quick change between the last two windows displayed, show desktop, Dashboard (darkens the screen), activate the screensaver, disable the screensaver and then turn off the screen .
Unfortunately, personalized actions cannot be started. Win7SE works with Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit and also with Windows 10.
Another program that enables the fast selection of windows like Mac Exposé is Switcher, a tool already mentioned in the past in the article on adding 3D effects to windows and three-dimensional desktops on Windows.
A third very simple program that takes advantage of the corners of the screen is SmallWindows to get an overview of the windows similar to Mac's Mission Control .
In another article, the Aero 3D effect of Windows for fast exchange between windows is explained
