Minimize all other windows from the current application?

Solution 1:

You may enable Aero Shake, which lets you quickly minimize all opened windows, except the current active window, by shaking its title bar. Shaking the title bar again will restore the other minimized windows. Shaking is done by a click on the title bar of the window you want to work with, and while holding the mouse button down, shake the window back and forth.

Enabling Aero Shake seems to have disappeared from the Settings app, where it used to be at System > multi-tasking. It can still be enabled from the registry, this way:

• Run Settings > System > multi-tasking and verify that "Snap windows" is enabled.
  (Snap was required in my tests to make Shake work.)

• Create a .reg file containing the following text:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
    "DisallowShaking"=dword:00000000
  

• Double-click the .reg file to execute it, and answer OK to the permission dialog

• Reboot.

Microsoft seems to be phasing Aero Shake out, so I can't guarantee that it will keep on working in the years to come.