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hsjc
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2  Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:27 am |
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I have a radeon 4870 x2, with Catalyst 9.8 installed.
3D and other visual effects look very nice, but aero peek is just not there. I don't know if I need to enable it or where to enable it for that matter.
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:33 am |
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You can enable it by viewing the Properties of your taskbar. I also had a problem with this where it was grayed out when using a limited account.  The other two Aero features were working fine then. However now as Administrator everything works fine! 
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hsjc
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:37 am |
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Man I guess I was just blind.  Thanks so much, I will test it out when I get home.
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hsjc
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:04 am |
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Sorry, I was testing out aero peek on my laptop which has win 7 ultimate. I found that, aero peek is very specific, it's just the right bottom corner "show desktop". Arris, are you able to do this: Hover your cursor over a thumbnail preview of a window from your taskbar, Then that window comes to the foreground while other windows fade and show only the edges. Does this feature has a name? LOL, everything has a name it seems. I dont have this on my R2. I thot this was aero peek. Xxcom9a: Are you talking about Thumbnail Previews, or is it something that happens once you have a "Thumbnail Preview" open?:Code: Thumbnail previews which were introduced in Windows Vista have been expanded to not only preview the windows opened by the application in a small-sized thumbnail view, but to also interact with them. The user can close any windows opened by clicking the X on the corresponding thumbnail preview. The name of the window is also shown in the thumbnail previews. Another new feature added is the ability to get a "peek" of the window by hovering over the thumbnail preview. Peeking brings up only the window of the thumbnail preview over which the mouse hovers and turns any other windows on the desktop transparent. This also works for tabs in Internet Explorer; individual tabs may be peeked at in the thumbnail previews. In addition to these features, thumbnail previews give access to basic features of an application by integrating them into the previews themselves. For example, if Windows Media Player is opened and the mouse is hovering on the application icon, the thumbnail preview will allow the user the ability to Play, Stop, and Play Next/Previous track without having to actually open Windows Media Player. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7#Taskbar
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hsjc
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:54 am |
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Yes, that's exactly what I want. thanks for the screenshot, and I'm not getting that on my R2.
I just checked, even with Admin account, that I can't even enable aero peek???
The option is greyed out in "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties"
Weird, do I need to enable/install some other services or something?
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hsjc
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:13 am |
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Okay, I finally got it for my Admin account. I went back to the "visual effect" settings in "advanced system settings", unchecked and checked again "enable aero peek", clicked apply, then snap, aero peek is working now under admin. Tried the samething for regular user, doesn't work.... 
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:34 am |
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Maybe its also disabled via gpedit. No idea. Who the hell uses a non-admin acc ?
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:16 pm |
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It is just bug of the Microsoft to enable all visual effects go to "system properties" dialog box and switch to "best performance" visual appearance. do not remember to save your desktop theme before  after that, switch back to "best appearance" and enjoy both aero peek and others! ) p.s. Hope it will work not only for Administrator accounts. p.p.s. help me please! MS Flight simulator X crashes on Win2008R2 after about 5-10 minutes
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Post subject: Re: aero peek in R2 Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:20 pm |
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benua-J wrote: p.p.s. help me please! MS Flight simulator X crashes on Win2008R2 after about 5-10 minutes Make a topic in the Applications Forum with more information such as: Error messages, Operating System/Editions, Processor, Ram, Graphics and things like that so other people will see your post and be able to help you.
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