By Simon Batt
Publication Date: 2026-04-15 03:13:00
Summary
- A Microsoft engineer built PeekDesktop to add a macOS-style click-to-reveal desktop to Windows.
- The app offers four reveal modes: native Show Desktop, Classic Minimize, Fly Away, and Virtual Desktop.
- Download releases from the PeekDesktop GitHub page to try it.
Sometimes, when Microsoft doesn’t add a feature to Windows 10 or 11, the userbase will make it themselves. One could even argue that Windows users are better developers for the OS than Microsoft itself. However, sometimes a Microsoft engineer will make an app to fix an issue they’ve been encountering and release it for everyone to use, which is like the…
