Windows 7: Remove Show Desktop Button

Right click on Start button and slect Properties, then click on the Task Bar Tab and then un-click "Use Aero Peek to preview the Desktop"

Did you bother to even skim the thread, or even just read the original question?

If you had, then you would know that the option you mentioned only disables Aero Peek which shows an overlay of the desktop when you hover over the button, it does not actually remove the button which is what this whole thread is about.

At this stage in the game the ENTIRE UI should be completely customizable.  1995 to Present and we still have a rigid UI that requires extensive programming to modify.

All they have to do to make everyone happy is...

THANK YOU for installing Windows ?.  Please choose the GUI you would like (showing some examples)..  Please choose...

Windows XP Style, Windows Vista Style, Windows 7 Style, Windows 8 without Metro, Windows 8 with Only Metro (only for tablets/phones), and Windows 8 with Metro.

Please goto Control Panel later on to change your preferences if you don't like them.  Also if you are daring, visit out advanced GUI section where you can turn on and off any windows feature you would like.  Move the bars around, customize the start button, skin your own stuff.  All sorts of flexibility.

Instead... we have a company that COULD do SO much more.  But if they won't even fix the side scroll BUG (yes, it's a massive BUG, not a feature like you claim) where the folder jumps away from the cursor after years of patches AND the bug is STILL there in Windows 8....

Do you honestly expect a customizable GUI?

I don't.  I'm waiting for the days when something else goes it better and I'm jumping ship along with 99% of all my customers.

You have some of the BEST programmers in the world.  How about making Windows not so messy.  If we could see the code under the hood so to speak... we would probably be horrified.  Spaghetti mess.  Who knows... with each new windows I keep hoping... can I finally enjoy this OS.  PLEASE.  Windows 7 was SO close.  All you had to do was fix the side scroll bug instead of me having to install Classic Shell on 100% of my customers computers.  Still doesn't fix OPEN but at least if you are in the explorer shell it's fixed in there which is good enough for me.

But to NOT fix it... and let it creep into a new version of Windows.  Where is the quality control?  Does anyone at Microsoft even use WINDOWS?  Where are the devs who are rummaging through 48TB of data and saying... this is UNusable...  I have to keep scrolling down after every click to find the folder I just clicked on.  Why is this not fixed?

Something is broken in the company that lets glaring bugs in the UI go unfixed.  For the first year till I heard of Classic Shell I used XP to manipulate my files across my network.  But, windows 7 has vastly superior speed across gigabit networks.

Ah well, I rant, I rave, I offer solutions, no-one cares.  No-one listens.  After all... Microsoft knows what we all want.  I mean... who would want the stupid Start button that no-one according to their research uses.  I go INTO actual homes of actual users and deal with them 1 on 1.  None of them like Windows 8.  They are SO lost it's sad.  I move one icon around on ANY OS and I get a phone call saying... "I can't get on the internet."  I remote into their PC and say... it's up near the top - the Firefox icon.  They respond... can you move it back to where it was?   Sure I say.  Another happy customer.  Microsoft has no clue what the majority of customers want.  90% of my customer base have very little computer knowledge if things change.  5% can handle the changes and would just move the icon back themselves.  5% can do anything, they just don't want to do anything because they work on a computer all day, and then don't want to fix them either.

Anyways, this is long enough.  I don't want to hate...  but at this stage in the game... Windows should be ROCK SOLID.  Customizable UI's.  Loadable Skin Packs to completely deck out windows without 3rd party stuff.  It should be PART of the OS.  Bugs should be fixed.  Especially bugs like (lost passwords (Win 95-ME), horrible copy bugs (Vista), UI unusable for navigating hard drive (Win 7, Win 8).  UI completely hostile to novice and professional users (Win 8). 

Please note: I hate stuff that pops out from the corners.  Charms?  Shoot me now.  Metro apps that can't be resized?  Multi monitor support on Win 8?  Shoot me now.  Sure I can Win+C for the charms, sure I can stop using the mouse and start typing when laying back in my lazy boy chair... ugh...

Choice.... choice... choice... we have no choice, we have no voice.

Our only hope is Linux and maybe something Google will do.  Google seems to do things a lot faster than Microsoft.  Linux, while nice enough, still needs a LOT of polishing before it's on par with Windows.  If you have to drop to a Terminal, it's not polished enough.  No customer I have will ever touch a terminal to fix anything.  I have installed Linux on a few customers who want to be "bullit proof" for viruses as they check emails and surf the net.  3 years on... no infections.  They like it.  :)

Ah well, this is too long.  I rant into the air....

At this stage in the game the ENTIRE UI should be completely customizable.  1995 to Present and we still have a rigid UI that requires extensive programming to modify.

If I agreed any harder, I would injure myself.

Microsoft has known full-well for at least a couple of decades that people want UI customization. They have continually seen third-parties provide all sorts of customization capabilities s for every aspect of the UI, yet, they obstinately refuse to provide any such ability either built-in, or even as an API-supported framework for others to do it themselves, hence all the .dll hacks that are necessary, but absolutely should not be. Having to resort to hacking the OS to do something so common and so innocuous is ridiculous. Not only is it a lot more work, not only does it require constant attention to check and restore after updates, but it also opens the system up to new attack vectors unnecessarily.

I just cannot imagine why Microsoft refuses to support UI customization beyond what little wiggle-room they have allowed with a bit of color changing, wallpapers, or using Microsoft-provided themes. The only fathomable (attempt at an) excuse for continuing with this absurd close-source, proprietary UI-customization system they have stuck to, is that it would slightly complicate tech-support instructions when giving directions via plain-text. **◔_**◔

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:40:41 +0000, PerryCS wrote:

At this stage in the game the ENTIRE UI should be completely customizable.  1995 to Present and we still have a rigid UI that requires extensive programming to modify.

I agree to a great extent, but not quite as strongly as you say.

You have some of the BEST programmers in the world. 

This isn't Microsoft you're addressing; this is a peer support forum.
We are all just users of this version of Windows here, helping each
other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft employees (not even
those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names; that's an honorary
title for having provided consistently helpful advice) except for an
occasional Microsoft contractor or employee.

If you want to complain to Microsoft about something, please contact
them directly. Trying to do it here is just a waste of (figurative)
breath.