Open windows going crazy

This is probably a dumb question, but I have never figured it out. I have a magic mouse, but I had the issue before with my previous mouse. Sometimes when I click on things or touch the mouse a certain way all the windows on the screen move off to the side and there is a narrow black boarder on the screen that I have to click on to bring the windows back. What is this? I think it is annoying and I want to turn this off. Please help

It's called Expose. You can assign it to another action or turn it off completely using the +Expose and Spaces+ or the Mouse pane of System Preferences.
Always thought it was extremely useful actually. Ever needed to clear all the windows from the desktop to see a file or folder on it?
That's where it's useful.

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