[hsjc]

You can add the following to working list:

World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich King:
NOTE: Before I added Remote Desktop Server role, it was running fine. After the change
I needed to run WoW in vista compatibility mode. It also runs fine in this mode.

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

Call of Duty: World at War
NOTE: Vista compatibility mode.

Medieval II: Total War, Kingdom

[hsjc]

@fear55 wrote:

Maybe its also disabled via gpedit. No idea. Who the hell uses a non-admin acc ?

I do. It is just a good practice not to have admin right all the time, it’s also something I really like with Linux. Without admin right, the chance of you doing something to screw up the system is much lower.

[hsjc]

@benua-J wrote:

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

Will try again for non-admin accounts!

[hsjc]

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…. 😥

[hsjc]

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?

[hsjc]

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?:

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

[hsjc]

Man I guess I was just blind. 😆

Thanks so much, I will test it out when I get home.

[hsjc]

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.

[hsjc]

I know aero shake/snap work.

but I can’t get aero peek to work.

[hsjc]

Haha, it’s all cool.

I really like these new features. However aero snap doesn’t work very well with my dual monitor setup. But I don’t blame MS for that, they did a very good job this time.

[hsjc]

Thanks for asking.

I watched the video of aero shake, it’s just that if you have a cluttered desktop, you shake a window and all the other windows are minimized right?

As for you can half-maximize, maximize by dragging the window to the top, left/right edges, I don’t know if there a name for it, or is there?

[hsjc]

haha, thx for reminding me! I didn’t even know there was AeroShake in windows 7.

will check on server 08 r2 when i get back home.

[hsjc]

Hehe, yeah I know the new added feature. I was just thinking the previews alone are the same as those of vista.

Come on guys, we need to figure this out! 😆

[hsjc]

yeah the mini-previews are there. They are the same thing as the previews in vista right?

I forgot how vista’s preview is.

[hsjc]

yeah, that’s right. Do you like it?

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