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I know that, as a Windows XP user, I have a little button somewhere on my task bar to minimize all open windows and show my desktop. But it takes a bit of time to get your mouse there and click it - and I wanted something much easier and much quicker than that. Something that would work quickly wherever my mouse was. Maybe a right-click context menu? No, but then I would have to click and choose a menu item and click again - even worse! A hotkey? Better - but as I generally have one hand on the mouse, a bit cumbersome. So I tried ZigZag Cleaner and I was really impressed - this is the first time that I have seen this problem solved in quite this way, and it works brilliantly! No clicking or choosing or finding a menu or a button, you just move your mouse in a particular way, like drawing on the screen with the mouse cursor. You don't click and drag, you just move it, in a "Z" or "N" shape, or a "C" for example. You can setup how big a movement it should be, so that it doesn't false-trigger. I immediately chose the "Z" movement to clear my screen of windows, and the "N" movement to open the "C:\" drive folder in an explorer window for me. Many, many times a day, I want to browse my hard-drive, and this is the quickest way I've found of getting that explorer window open. You can set it to run any application for you (i.e. not just open a folder), or if you want to open a folder like me, you can set any folder as the default (like "My Documents"). You also have symbols to open and close your CD drive, start your screensaver, and scroll the window for you. I don't find the CD drive one useful, because my PC sits under my desk so I woud have to bend down there anyway to put the CD in / take it out - and I might as well push the button while I'm there! And I'm so used to using my mouse's middle scroll button, so I haven't tried the scrolling one yet either. But it seems really obvious - you just draw a line straight down or straight up, depending on which way you want to scroll. I appreciate it when someone clever writes a program that works the way people think. For me, using ZigZag Cleaner is like using my mouse to wipe the windows off my screen - I just zip across the screen and they all disappear. I've set ZigZag Cleaner to startup automatically when Windows starts, so it just appears as an icon in my bottom right taskbar - near where the time is displayed. Download a free trial of ZigZag Cleaner now. Here's a picture of what it looks like:
The mouse usage statistics are not very useful, in my opinion, but quite cool to see. You can see a trail of everywhere your mouse has been, with red dots where you clicked. On the right you can see what mine looks like right now. Below, I've put in a copy of what the symbols setup looks like for me. You can see that there are Z, N, C, S and more symbols. All can be customised to do what you need.
And, as I mentioned before, you can customize the size of the symbol (width and height) - so if you just want to draw a tiny little one and have it still recognise it you can, but of course the bigger ones are less prone to false triggering (not that I can imagine making a tiny little N by accident).
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I tried ZigZag Cleaner because I wanted a quick and intuitive way to clear my screen of open windows, and a totally intuitive way to quickly run an application.
Just a small red Z - quite inconspicuous.
Right-click on that little Z, and you get a menu full of options.
