Aero Peek not working?

[jemping]

Hi everyone,

I got a problem with the Aero Peek in Win7.
I don't know what happened, but suddenly I cannot peek my Safari. (see picture attached)

Any other programs can be peeked on.

And also, my Safari usually works along with UAC (i.e. no prompt when trying to open the web browser), but now, every time I try to use Safari, I will get prompted about UAC.

What do you all think the problem is?

Thanks, guys.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello,

Does Aero Peek work with your other programs?

As I understand, Safari is giving you the trouble.

Perhaps a System Restore will help.

Hope this helps,
~Jonathan

 

[richc46]

Hi everyone,

I got a problem with the Aero Peek in Win7.
I don't know what happened, but suddenly I cannot peek my Safari. (see picture attached)

Any other programs can be peeked on.

And also, my Safari usually works along with UAC (i.e. no prompt when trying to open the web browser), but now, every time I try to use Safari, I will get prompted about UAC.

What do you all think the problem is?

Thanks, guys.

If it were me, I would follow Jonathans instructions. In lieu of that I would try to uninstall and then install again.

Possibly, even better, if Safari is like IE, set it back to defaults.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Your getting the UAC prompt is because every time Safari is running as Administrator and it's not a bad thing. If you right click and go to Properties of Safari shortcut icon under Compatibility Tab you can see Run as admin would be checked. You could try to reinstall Safari to see whether that makes a difference.

Hope this helps

 

[Tommy Trauma]

Speaking of peek for a moment. Does'nt 7 give you the thumbnails like Vista did, or am I missing a setting or something. All I get in peek is a window description.

EDIT: Never mind. Found by changing the taskbar buttons option to "never combine fixed it.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Speaking of peek for a moment. Does'nt 7 give you the thumbnails like Vista did, or am I missing a setting or something. All I get in peek is a window description.

That's because Aero is not enabled. Search for Aero in the start menu and change the theme. If you get a link that says troubleshoot problems with Aero, click it.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hi Tommy,

You could make sure its Aero Peek Preview is enabled

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/838-aero-peek-turn-off.html

Even if you enable if you have still issues you could try the self troubleshooting in Windows 7

Guided Help: Troubleshoot Aero problems in Windows 7

Hope this helps,
Captain

 

[Jonathan_King]

Jack's second link better describes what I was trying to say.

 

[jemping]

Thanks for the help Jonathan.
I did what you say, and voila, problem's gone.

Thanks a bunch.

 

[monelikemal]

aero peek is not working

My computer's windows 7
aero peek is not working. How to repair?

 

[Jonathan_King]

My computer's windows 7
aero peek is not working. How to repair?

Try updating your graphics drivers.

Did Aero peek ever work before?

 

[monelikemal]

thank

thank.
Now I am Ok
my problem solved by Tuneup

 

[mikiman]

The problem persists. Please help. Nothing in USB or headphone jack

 

[deanolfc]

check for windows updates

 

[tazz]

same problem here i just reinstalled win7 prem after witch our peek will not work it's grayed out and it did work fine

 

[tazz]

now this is a little funny but confusing ?:shock: ..... have been searching for about 3 hrs now on this problem and the last pg i looked at gave a fix that i hadn't seen b4 i tried & much to my surprise it worked
so i hope it helps someone else


Windows 7 Aero theme's "greyed out" - no found fix - Super User

 

[joel0v3sgames]

easily fixed by going into performance info tools, adjust visual effects and go to show best apperence otherwise go to for best performance and back again and it worked for me.

 

[MontgomeryMinds]

Thanks @tazz your SuperUser link got me on the right track. For me it wasn't the `Themes` service but the `Desktop Window Manager Session Manager` service which I had to restart. None of the other fixes here (or there) worked for me. I also updated Windows 7 Aero theme - no found fix - Super User