{"id":210,"date":"2009-11-27T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-27T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:58:28","slug":"windows_7_peak_snap_and_shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 &#8211; Peek, Snap and Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wit.ncl.ac.uk\/blog_files\/John\/win7start.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 7 Logo\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As ever with new operating systems, a slew of extra functionality is added.  Unfortunately some neat little features are sometimes lost amongst the big functionality changes when it is publicized.  I&#8217;ve been using Windows 7 for quite a few months now and one feature set that is making my life easier is all to do with the Aero Desktop.  More specifically the Peek, Snap and Shake functions.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some videos that demonstrate the functionality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows7\/products\/features\/peek\">Peek<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows7\/products\/features\/snap\">Snap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows7\/products\/features\/shake\">Shake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first they do seem rather gimmicky ideas, but after using them for a while, I&#8217;m finding that the Snap and Shake functions are incredibly useful when you have many different Windows open and need to get through the clutter.<\/p>\n<p>There are also keyboard commands that reproduce the functionality  (Win = <em>The Windows key<\/em>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Win and Up<\/strong> &#8211; Maximize<\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Down<\/strong> &#8211; Restore\/Minimize <\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Left<\/strong> &#8211; Snap to Left of screen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Right<\/strong> &#8211; Snap to Right of screen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Home<\/strong> &#8211; Restore or minimize all windows other than the one in focus<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Win and T<\/strong> &#8211; Cycle throw Taskbar entries. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Space<\/strong> (hold) &#8211; Peek at the desktop <\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and G<\/strong> &#8211; Bring gadgets to the top <\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and number keys (1-9)<\/strong> &#8211; Open program pinned on the taskbar in order <\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Plus key<\/strong> &#8211; Zoom in<\/li>\n<li><strong>Win and Minus key<\/strong> &#8211; Zoom out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ever with new operating systems, a slew of extra functionality is added. Unfortunately some neat little features are sometimes lost amongst the big functionality changes when it is publicized. I&#8217;ve been using Windows 7 for quite a few months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}