these, of course, are nothing like Hot Pockets which are a food industry plot to remove all living flesh from the insides of your mouth.
I'm referring to the sections of the screen that, when a cursor is moved to them, causes something to happen. An example of this is the Screen Saver Hot corners. Put the cursor there and voila, the machine sleeps.
You need to check out the preference pane that deals with that. It's the one that allows you to set the "F" key functions. I cannot, for the life of me, remember which one it is but I will find out when I get home and let you know.
There is a possibility that Expose is being triggered in this way
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When move the curser to the edge of the display screen while I have multiple windows open, all the windows shrink to small windows. But I don't want that. I want it to stay the way it is. Does this make more sense?

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