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Aero Peek To Expose- Switching To Mac
Mar 13, 2025
A demo of how Expose works on the Mac in comparison to Aero Peek in Windows 7.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you Expose and specifically DC
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Expose and this is a feature that is
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going to come in handy a lot if you're
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used to Windows 7 with all the arrow
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Peak features and they're really
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actually really great features and if
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you've just recently switched over to
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the Mac you might be wondering how do I
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do all that stuff like I used to be able
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to do on Windows I you know why did I
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make this decision you can actually do
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pretty much everything you can with
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arrow Peak on the Mac so like on Arrow
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Peak you'd be able to um hover over your
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app tiles in your taskbar and see your
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open Windows you can show your desktop
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and you can see what apps you have open
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and stuff like that works just just like
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that on the Mac and I'll show it to you
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so the first thing you're going to want
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to do if you haven't done it yet is set
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up Expose and you can do that by going
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into system preferences now you can find
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system preferences Under The Apple menu
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in the top left hand corner of your
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screen and then just click on system
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preferences and it's going to open up
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and from there you're going to want to
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click on the Expose and spaces
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Tab and make sure you click on the
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expose Tab and here you're going to see
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this window where you can set up the
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your keystrokes for expose so you're
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going to look right down here in the
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middle and all windows application
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windows and show desktop so you can set
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which keys on your keyboard you'll
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press to activate these features so all
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windows I have set to F3 application
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windows I have set to left control and
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show desktop I have set to F6 so I'll
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show you these features in a minute now
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the reason I can't tell you to press a
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specific key is that because this can
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vary from computer to computer if you
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have it set up with different hot keys
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so it's kind of a thing that you know
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you you want to actually set up and and
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personalized to what you want it to be
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so we're just going to go up here and I
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have a very messy desktop here it's all
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cluttered with all kinds of stuff so the
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first thing I might want to do is see
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all my windows that I've open and all my
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open applications so to do that I have
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the hotkey set as F3 so I can press F3
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on my keyboard and you can see all my
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windows kind of shrink shrink down and
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fill the screen in a nice orderly grid
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format and I can see everything that I
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have open across my desktop here and
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even things that are minimized like I
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have Twitter minimized it's below the
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line here and it shrunk down even more
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to show you that it's
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minimized so I can look at all these
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applications and when I hover over them
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they turn blue and then there's the
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title below them so all I have to do to
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find the one I want is just click on it
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simply and let's say I want to click on
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this uh window here with my files in it
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I'll just click on it and that jumps to
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the front so I can if I want to go back
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to something else I can press my hotkey
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again and then click back something else
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and this is the hotkey for all
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windows so I can also have this specific
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to application windows so let's say I'm
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on Safari here and I want um just to see
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what windows I have open in Safari and
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to see that I'm just going to press left
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control I have it set up as you might
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have it set up differently and you'll
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see the windows that are open in Safari
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and I can click on one of those and
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switch to that there and then once again
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hit my hotkey again and go back and
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select a different one and that's the
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hotkey for application Windows now the
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other one which you may be used to the
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most in Windows 7 uh with arrow Peak is
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show show desktop and show desktop would
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be like the little button in the right
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hand corner on your taskbar and you
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click on it all your windows just kind
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of go transparent you can see your
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desktop and for that hotkey I have set
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as F6 so when I press that all my
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windows fly off to the
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sides and my desktop is open and free
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and uh from there you know I could open
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up a different application if I wanted
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to or if I want to go back to what
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windows I have open I can click anywhere
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along the outside of my screen uh
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there's a black bar I can click anywhere
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on that and my windows will fly back in
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just like that so that's the hotkey for
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show desktop and I have it set as
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F6 now let's say you don't really like
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hotkeys and you just want to be able to
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see what windows you have open without
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having to press any keys well what you
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can do is you can hold down on an app
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icon click and hold for like 2 seconds
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maybe and it's going to show you the
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windows you have opened from there so
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you can see that just like that and then
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click on one of course to open it back
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up and once you're in Doc expose like
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this I can easily find other windows
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that I have open just by clicking on
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them from there I don't need to click
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and hold or anything um and I can just
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find them just like that so I can switch
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apps within doc expose just like that
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and switch around till I find the right
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one I want and then click on it to open
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it up and this this really comes in hand
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if you have a lot of open application
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Windows like in finder I have several of
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them open here and I can just select the
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one I want and let's say I want to go
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back to that folder or different folder
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I can just hold on again and then go
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back to a different
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one hold down on the app icon again go
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to a different one now let's say I want
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to transfer file around well I can do
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that pretty easily too so right here in
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my desktop I have this Arrow Peak image
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and what I can do is I can drag that
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image down to my window that my app icon
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in my doc
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and what it's going to do is it's going
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to activate doc
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Expose and now I can drag this file to a
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different folder let's say my home
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folder and then drop it right into my
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folder just like that and it's moved
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from my desktop to my application
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folder and let's say I want to move this
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file back to my desktop without having
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to you know work with all these
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different windows and drag them around I
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can drag the file right over that folder
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onto my finder icon and then doc expose
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will activate I can drag it right over
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top of my desktop folder it selects that
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folder brings it back in and then I can
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just let go my mouse button and it pops
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right back onto my desktop in my desktop
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folder so if you're used to Windows 7
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Arrow Peak you'll be very at home with
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expose on Mac and Doc expose it all
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works really seamlessly and it all works
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together and it's very similar and
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you'll be very comfortable with it if
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you've used windows so that's a really
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nice handy feature that Apple puts in
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there if you're you know used to Windows
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and you're a
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switcher you don't have to worry about
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losing out on any features you had in
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Windows so that's about all for this
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video I hope you found it useful and
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thank you for
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watching
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