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| Thread ID: 109938 | 2010-05-28 05:58:00 | What's the use of Aero Peek? | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 888821 | 2010-05-28 05:58:00 | I'm preparing a session to introduce some SeniorNet people to Windows 7 - new features etc. Can anyone tell me a practical use for the Aero Peek feature - where you hover over the end of the taskbar and all the windows go transparent? It seems to me like one of those eye-candy things that sounds great but has no real application. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 888822 | 2010-05-28 06:25:00 | If you have Gadgets that updates Stock Markets, Exchange Rates, Weather, News and what not and you want to quickly to have a look at it without closing ALL the opened windows ... | SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 888823 | 2010-05-28 06:33:00 | Minimising say Word so you can check an email, you then find you need to check something in the word doc to put in the email. You out the mouse on the word shortcut and a window jumps up showing the word doc but doesn't maximise it so that when you move the mouse away again the email is showing. Saves opening and minimising the word doc. It's a feature I use all the time | gary67 (56) | ||
| 888824 | 2010-05-28 09:55:00 | Can anyone tell me a practical use for the Aero Peek feature - where you hover over the end of the taskbar and all the windows go transparent? It seems to me like one of those eye-candy things that sounds great but has no real application. Yes. It's so you can hover your mouse and ll the windows go transparent. Great isn't it? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 888825 | 2010-05-28 10:25:00 | For when your parents walk in while you're looking at the big P. | --Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 888826 | 2010-05-28 11:38:00 | If you have Gadgets that updates Stock Markets, Exchange Rates, Weather, News and what not and you want to quickly to have a look at it without closing ALL the opened windows ...I tend to leave the gadgets on the right and uncovered but yeah, I can see that... | Tony (4941) | ||
| 888827 | 2010-05-28 11:42:00 | Minimising say Word so you can check an email, you then find you need to check something in the word doc to put in the email. You out the mouse on the word shortcut and a window jumps up showing the word doc but doesn't maximise it so that when you move the mouse away again the email is showing. Saves opening and minimising the word doc. It's a feature I use all the timeI don't understand that. I think we may be talking about different things. I'm talking about when you hover the mouse over the right hand end of the taskbar and everything goes transparent, but as soon as you move the mouse away they all come back. I think you are talking about hovering the mouse over an icon in the task bar, which is when you get the preview of the open windows for the app - or do I totally misunderstand? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 888828 | 2010-05-28 11:56:00 | For when your parents walk in while you're looking at the big P.I'm such an innocent. That never occurred to me. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 888829 | 2010-05-28 13:21:00 | If you click on the tiny toolbar (at the very right hand end of the Task Bar) it is the exact equivalent of the Show Desktop function in many earlier versions of Windows. The hover function I just find annoying - I have no use for it whatsoever. Gary is talking about the ability to preview open Windows (and select) by hovering over the icons on the Task Bar - that I DO find useful! |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 888830 | 2010-05-28 21:25:00 | If you click on the tiny toolbar (at the very right hand end of the Task Bar) it is the exact equivalent of the Show Desktop function in many earlier versions of Windows. Brilliant!!! That is a function I have really missed in Windows 7 - thought it didn't exist. Thanks Johcar Ken :thanks |
kenj (9738) | ||
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