Note: Dialog boxes (for example, boxes with OK and Cancel buttons) aren’t affected by this Aero Shake thing—only full-blown windows.
Figure 2-4: Top: OK, this is the state of your screen. You want to have a look at your desktop—but oy, what a cluttered mess! Bottom: So you give this window’s title bar a little shake—at least a couple of horizontal or vertical back-and-forths—and boom! All other windows are minimized to the taskbar, so you can see what you’re doing. Give the title bar a second shake to bring the hidden windows back again.
The Show Desktop Button Believe it or not, that bizarre little reflective-looking stick of Trident in the lower-right corner of your screen—at the right end of your taskbar—is actually a button. It’s the old Show Desktop button (Figure 2-5), now moved to a new location.