AutoHotkey Community

If you find that Window's built in Show/Hide desktop feature is too aggressive for your needs, hiding your sidebar or widget applications, you may find this script useful. Many thanks to jaco0646 for helping me figure out how to make this work.

You can, of course, change the hotkey to anything you like.
Update:
After some trial and error, I have devised a new script for this. The above works fine if you just want to create a hotkey, but the new version is much more flexible.

To assign a hotkey, just save this as a script to your hard drive, and point your hotkey to it in your always-running hotkey script, like so:
Or compile the script into an exe and point one of your tablet's special screen buttons at it. This was my whole reason for revising this, in fact. For some reason, my tablet screen buttons keep trying to open my .ahk scripts in notepad instead of running them, so I needed something that was hotkey independent and could be compiled.
Enjoy!
And thanks to everyone who participates in these forums. I learn so much going through the old threads, it's just wonderful to find such a nice, helpful community. After spending time in some Vista troubleshooting forums, I really appreciate the positive, helpful atmosphere here.

This is same as Win+M right? How to do WIN+D? The aggressive version that hides dialog boxes etc.

I use a script that place an application button (like regular program) on the task bar and I can drag something over the button, it will minimize the windows and I will continue dragging to some desktop item...but it's not working every time (some applications are arrogant Using send keys was not working too..is there some other command for WIN+D?

Yes, this is like Win + M, except that it toggles between minimize & restore, which is something that Win + M won't do on my computer.

Not that I can remember off the top of my head.

Not sure exactly what you mean here. You can remap Win+D to another hotkey like this:
Or you could point the hotkey to the Show/Hide shortcut that windows places on the quick launch toolbar. For convenience, just move the shortcut wherever you want it, and then point the script to it, like so:

This has the advantage of allowing you to reuse the Win+D combo for something else, without losing the show/hide functionality.

Doesn't seem to affect my secondary monitor. Should it?

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I only use one monitor, so I have no idea how to make it work on the secondary monitor. Maybe someone else knows?