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Aero Peek is a Windows Seven feature that gives the user the experience to see through other open windows on the Windows 7 desktop.

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Windows 7 Alt+Tab transparent windows effect delay

In windows 7 when browsing through the alt+tab thumbnails, lingering on one thumbnail for a second will engage the Aero-Peek effect causing every window to be transparent except for the chosen window. This effect is slightly delayed before starting…
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Windows 7 alt-tab window disappears to back when aero peek is enabled

There is a strange bug with Aero Peek and Alt-Tab where the Alt-Tab window itself is sent all of the way to the back, and is obscured by whatever window may be being previewed in front of it. While it still works for switching tabs, it's extremely…
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Windows 10: Disable Desktop Peek on hover over taskbar thumbnail

Since Windows 7, there's an option to "Peek" at the desktop (overlayed by outlines of opened Windows) when you hover over a thumbnail produced by a Taskbar icon. On a Windows 10 device, i need to disable this as it is often used in Extended Desktop…
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How can I increase the width of the Show Desktop button in Windows 7/8/8.1/10?

I'm using Windows 8.1 on a Surface Pro 2, and my Show Desktop button is 8 pixels wide (that's not even a millimeter), making it near unusable with touch, and even difficult with the mouse. I have the same problem on my desktop, where my multiple…
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How do disable Win 7 show desktop feature (when mouse is in the lower right corner)

My Win 7 is installed on my laptop. When I use my mouse I am not always on a flat surface (ie on a couch or something like that) when I let go of my mouse to type it often moves a bit. When it does this it will often end up on the lower right hand…
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How can I completely disable Aero Peek?

I'm looking for a way to completely disable Aero Peek, at least this is what I think this feature is called, in Windows 10. I tried TaskbarThumbsTuner but it didn't do what I was looking for. When I hover a set of tasks that are combined together…
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How to change delay time for Aero Peek?

The Aero Peek feature is incredibly useful for me, but I want it to happen more quickly. This question (answered by KronoS) tells how to change the delay time before the popups occur when hovering over the open application icons on the…
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What is the point of Aero Peek?

Basically, see the title of this question. By Aero Peek, I am in this case referring to the 'hover' effect you get when you move to the rightbottom of the taskbar area, the 'Show Desktop' button effect while hanging over it (NOT clicking it). The…
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How to disable Aero Peek during Alt+Tab?

Aero Peek is a nice feature generally but I find it very annoying during Alt+Tabbing (peek windows hiding the switch dialog, it doesn't really work on multiple monitors etc.). Is there a way to disable Aero Peek only during the Alt+Tab operation? I…
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How to Force Aero Peek to Stay Up

Let's say I have a video running in an application. If I hover my mouse over the taskbar, it shows a little popup windows that diplays the video (aero peek). Sometimes I'm running a maximized window and I want to have this little screen always…
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Taskbar aeropeek preview and Alt-Tab auto close on Windows 7

I wanted to reply to the following thread: taskbar icon preview (and Alt+Tab icon preview) disappears quickly But I am not allowed to. So I am created another here to share my experience. First, the Behaviour ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you move over the…
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Aero Peek not working when hovering over taskbar icon

I don't know how to explain this in words clearly, but my Windows 7 computer used to be able to show only a particular window if I hovered my mouse on the Taskbar. However, I don't know if I set anything but I install and uninstalled a program and…
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Aero Peek on multiple monitors

I have two 27" monitors, my main one is the one on the left and this has the notification area, time/date and the the Aero Peek button on the bottom most right. I want the second monitor to also display those things or at minimum, just the peek…
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Mirror drivers don't support Aero effects

I can't enable Aero effects on Windows 7 Enterprise edition. I'm at a loss of how to enable it. Thanks for the help! Let me know whether I could include anything else which would be helpful! Here are a few helpful screenshots... This is where you…
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Is there a way to toggle Aero Peek after a certain amount of inactivity (like a screensaver) in Windows 7?

I'm basically looking for Aero Peek style functionality that triggers after a certain period of inactivity. Is there any way of achieving this?
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