Disabling The Aero Shake Feature In Windows 7

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Windows 7 comes with a new feature known as the Aero Shake feature, which allows a user to click on the title bar of a window and move the mouse back and forth to minimize all other windows automatically. I have personally never found this feature useful and it is actually possible to disable it by simply following the below Registry tweak:

Step-1 Open the Windows Registry by typing regedit in the Run option in the Start menu.

Step-2 Navigate to the registry hive below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Step-3 Right click on the Windows key and create a new sub key and call it Explorer.

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Step-4 Once you have selected Explorer, then on the right hand side panel create a new DWORD value called NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts and set its value to 1. This should disable the Aero Shake feature. Delete the changes made to enable it again!

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