Incorporate Scott Hanselman's Peek Desktop utility

[TheAndyMac]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

From his page about it, PeekDesktop brings macOS Sonoma’s “click wallpaper to reveal desktop” behavior to Windows 10 and 11. Click empty wallpaper to minimize open windows, interact with desktop icons without accidental triggers, then restore everything with a click on an app, the taskbar, or the wallpaper again. It’s a small, fun system tray utility with x64 and ARM64 builds.

Scenario when this would be used?

As an alternative to keyboard shortcuts to do the same.

Supporting information

No response

[ReginaldTang]

System Settings>Personalisation>Taskbar

Or just press win+d

[TheAndyMac]

I was aware of these, and it's not quite the same - first of all it has some nice options for how to minimise stuff (some experimental) and second it is click ANYWHERE (not an icon) on the desktop, not just the small corner area, which can be a challenge when only using touch.

[ReginaldTang]

for touch, you can use 4 fingers, swipe down

[TheAndyMac]

I must admit that I had forgotten about the 4 fingers swipe.

[zadjii]

Paging @shanselman 😜 wadda ya say, wanna ship a powertoy?

[jeremykyle183]

@nonfiction

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