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WINDOWS 11 · PUBLIC PREVIEW

Your desktop
has four more
shortcuts.

Move your pointer to a corner. Let Hot Corners open the view, app, or action you need—without breaking your flow.

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Free during preview · Windows 11 x64 · No account required

THE REAL SETTINGS WINDOW01 / 04
Hot Corners settings in dark mode showing a four-corner map and per-corner action settings
Four corners. Your own actions.
01 Runs in your Windows session02 Works offline for corner actions03 No telemetry or background service

THE IDEA

Make the edges
work for you.

SubZero Hot Corners puts useful actions at the most reliable targets on your screen: its corners. A quick move can bring up Task View, show your desktop, switch spaces, or start something you choose.

It stays in the notification area and gives you control over when a corner should respond.

01

Make a corner yours

Assign Task View, desktop switching, screenshots, media controls, an app, a folder, a URL, or a local command.

02

Act with intent

Choose instant activation or a dwell, add modifier keys, and tune corner size and cooldown to suit your movement.

03

Fit your displays

Use named profiles and per-display corner layouts. Outside-edge placement respects the shape of your desktop.

04

Try it safely

Test Safely shows what a corner would run and its dwell progress without executing an action.

INSIDE THE APP

Thoughtful controls.
Nothing in the way.

Actual screens from the Windows preview, showing the controls you’ll use to configure actions, timing, and layouts.

Settings showing the grouped action menu with Desktop and Media choices
01 / ACTIONSPick the right action

Desktop, media, Windows, and custom actions live in one grouped menu.

General settings for appearance, corner behavior, and full-screen exceptions
02 / BEHAVIORDial in the response

Choose your theme, dwell feedback, and how corners behave around full-screen apps.

Layouts settings showing profiles and display-specific corner controls
03 / LAYOUTSOne setup or many

Keep named profiles and give individual displays their own corner assignments.

TRY BEFORE YOU COMMIT

Test your corners.
Run nothing.

Test Safely previews the action and dwell feedback for your current draft. Press Escape or the glowing Stop button when you’re done.

Hot Corners safe test mode with a glowing Stop button
Dwell progress ring shown at a screen cornerDwell feedback

NOW IN PREVIEW

Ready when
you are.

Version 1.0.0-preview.1 is a test build. The final 1.0.0 feature set is still being settled, so preview behavior can change.

BUILD CHANNELPREVIEW1.0.0-preview.1
Windows SetupPer-user installer · recommendedWindows MSIPer-user installerPortable ZIPExtract to a writable folder

Install this build once, then choose Preview in the tray’s update-channel menu for later previews. View release notes and checksums

BUILT TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY

Local by design.
Ready at the edge.

Corner detection and settings work locally. The app asks for no account, no administrator access, and installs no Windows service. Optional update checks contact public GitHub releases.

SubZero Hot Corners is proprietary software. The preview is free to install and use; commercial use after the preview requires a license key. Read the preview license. For license questions, contact SubZeroDev.