Windows 10: How to Bring Back Aero Peek

Windows 10: How to Bring Back Aero Peek

Do you keep trying to go to the side of the taskbar to try and use Aero Peek and it doesn’t seem to work anymore? This is because, in Windows 8, this was the spot for the charms bar, so they had to make room for that.
The good news is, the charms bar is gone and you can now bring back Aero Peek if you enjoyed it.
If you’re unsure of what this is, it’s a feature that allows you to “Peek” at your desktop with windows open, much like below:

Before Aero peek

After Aero peek

It’s hard to see in a picture, but there are two windows that were looking through if you hover over the bottom right icon.

Plus, if you click the white line, it minimizes every screen on the desktop, then click it again, it will open all the windows again.

How to enable Aero Peek

1.      1.  Right Click the Taskbar to open the hidden menu and click taskbar options:

1.      2.This will open the taskbar settings menu and there will be an option for “Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar”, you want to toggle this on, like below:

Now the Aero peak will be enabled and ready for use, I hope this helps for the people that enjoyed this feature.

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