In this video, I’m going to show you how I can use hot corners to move all of your windows out of the way and show your desktop. This makes it easy to access any file or folder that you have on your desktop. Even if you have a lot of windows open on your Mac, let’s see how this works. Let’s go to my Mac.

Now, if we look at my Mac here, you’re going to see, I have several windows open. I have my calendar here. I also have Safari here, and then I have several Finder windows open, but also what you can see because I have all of these windows open here because I have a folder on my desktop called w IP for work in process.

And I would like to do is I would like to access a file in that folder. That’s on my desktop. Now in order to do that, what I would need to do is I would need to move some of these windows around. I would need to move my calendar window here, and now I need to move my finder window. And then I can see my work in process.

Well, there’s an easier way of doing this without moving all of these individual windows around. What we can do is we can set up a hot corner to show our desktop. When we set this up, we’re able to move our cursor here into one of the four corners of our display. And it’s going to move all of the windows on our Mac and show our desktop so we can easily access anything on our desktop.

So how do we do that? Well, hot corners is located in your system preferences. So now what I’m going to do is I’m going to go up to the Apple menu, and then we’re going to go to system preferences. From here. What we need to do is we need to go to mission control under mission control. You’re going to see an option for hot corners.

When I select this, what we’re going to be able to do is select what we want to happen with our Mac when we put our cursor into a corner. Let’s go ahead and select this and see how this; we have a sheet that drops down, and now you can see, I have. My four corners here. So now, what I’m able to do is I’m able to select what I want to happen with my Mac.

When I move my cursor into each one of these four corners, what I want to do is I want to show the desktop when I move my cursor in the lower left-hand corner. So I’m going to go to my lower left-hand corner. Here we go over to the left, and we select from the strap down what we want our Mac to do.

In my case, I wanted to go to the desktop or show the desktop. So now, I select this. Okay. I click on. Okay. And let’s go and move my windows again. I’m just going to move my system preferences over top of my work in the process. Let’s go and move my finder here and let’s go where their calendar. So again, I have multiple windows covering up my desktop.

I want to go to my desktop. Well, instead of moving these windows around individually, now, all I need to do is go down to the lower left-hand corner. And when I put my cursor down in the very corner of it, watch what happens. All of the windows move. And now what I’m able to do as I can go to my work in process, I can double click on it.

I can go and open up that file. I want all of my windows to come back while all I need to do is move my cursor. In the lower left-hand corner again, they all come back; let’s move this file here. On top of my desktop, I’m going to move it out of this folder here. Now, I click and drag, and we’re going to place it over here.

So now it is on my desktop. I want to see that file. How do we do that? We go to the lower left-hand corner here. And you’re going to see; I have my estimate. I want to move it back into my work and process. All I have to do is click and drag. Now. It is in my work in process here. I want to show all of my windows again.

I go to the lower left-hand corner, and I can see all of my windows again. So that’s how we can easily see our desktop or the files and folders on our desktop. When we use hot corners, we need to go to system preferences and mission control, and then we set up our hot corners.

So that’s how we can easily show our desktop or the files and folders on our desktop using hot corners on the Mac.