Aero Peek is a characteristic that's been bachelor in Windows since Windows 7, and is on by default (except in Windows 8). It allows you to temporarily peek at the desktop backside whatever open up program windows.

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To use Aero Peek, move your mouse over the Show Desktop push on the far right side of the Taskbar. Later a moment, all the open program windows become transparent and y'all can see your desktop. Movement your mouse abroad from the Show Desktop button to meet your program windows once more.

If you lot don't want to use Aero Peek, it can hands be disabled in several ways. The procedures to disable Aero Peek are the same in Windows 7, eight, and 10, except where noted. The Show Desktop button is very narrow and difficult to come across in Windows 8 and 10, but if y'all only make certain to move your mouse to the extreme right side of the Taskbar, Aero Peek will work. Annotation that, in Windows viii, moving your mouse to the extreme right side of the Taskbar also brings upwards the Charms bar.

How to Disable Aero Peek

The quickest mode to disable Aero Peek is to move your mouse to the far right side of the Taskbar, right-click on the Show Desktop button, and and so select "Peek at desktop" from the popup menu. When Aero Peek is off, there should be no check mark next to the Peek at desktop option.

If the "Peek at desktop" pick is grayed out, Aero Peek is off, even if the option is checked. For information on making this selection available again, run into the "How to Disable and Enable Aero Peek in System Backdrop" department below.

Y'all tin besides disable Aero Peek from the Taskbar Settings. Only right-click on the Taskbar and select "Settings" from the popup menu in Windows 10 or "Properties" in Windows 7 and 8.

On the Taskbar settings screen, click the "Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Testify desktop button at the end of the taskbar" slider push then it turns white and reads Off.

On Windows seven, this will expect slightly different, but a similar choice is bachelor at the lesser of the window. On Windows 8, the same option available in Windows 10's Settings is available on the Taskbar tab.

How to Enable Aero Peek if the Selection Is Greyed Out

If Aero Peek is off and y'all want to enable it, but the pick is grayed out, that means Aero Peek is disabled in the Organisation Properties. To enable it there, press Windows+R on your keyboard to open the Run dialog box. And so, enter sysdm.cpl in the "Open up" box and click the "OK" push button or press Enter.

On the System Backdrop dialog box, click the "Advanced" tab.

Click the "Settings" push button in the Performance department.

On the Visual Effects tab, check the "Enable Peek" box in Windows ten ("Enable Aero Peek" in Windows seven) to enable the Aero Peek feature and make the choice bachelor over again.

Click the "OK" button on the Functioning Options dialog box and so click the "OK" button on the Organisation Properties dialog box.

Now you lot tin can enable Aero Peek by turning on or checking i of the same options that nosotros previously used to disable Aero Peek.