Enabling or Disabling Aero Shake on Windows 10

Has this happened to you?  You’re moving around one window, trying to position it just right and all your other windows just minimize? You’re a victim  of the Aero Shake minimize.

This seems to get me more often than I’d like.  There’s a simple way to disable it via the Registry.

Keep in mind that messing with Registry can cause bad things to happen to your system.  Make a backup before you mess around.  If you’re uncomfortable, maybe you don’t change this.

The Registry key you need is here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts DWORD

Set to 0 = Enable
Set to 1 = Disable

 

This should work on Home and Pro versions.

VirtualBox 5.0.10 (released 2015-11-10)

5.0.10 maintenance release is now available: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Changelog:

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773)
• VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515)
• GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108)
• GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
• GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722)
• GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
• Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784)
• Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
• Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653)
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
• USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
• USB: better identification of certain USB devices
• NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736)
• NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899)
• API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764)
• API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
• VBoxManage: don’t crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729)
• Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
• Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
• Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651)
• Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799)
• Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
• Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
• X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)