Emulation of Win7 "Aero Peek Window Preview"

Does Stardock make any product that can emulate the Window Preview in Win7?

I already have Win7 but I don't want to use the Windows taskbar - would like to hide it and use Object Dock instead.

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Holding the Win+Space keys gives you Aero Peek. :)

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Thanks boss, that works well, but I actually meant the little preview windows that are accessible from the task bar... Perhaps  i used the wrong word.

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no , don't believe they do.

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Window FX does it, but I'm not sure it works on 7.  :S

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It doesn't.

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Does Stardock make any product that can emulate the Window Preview in Win7?

I already have Win7 but I don't want to use the Windows taskbar - would like to hide it and use Object Dock instead.
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We don't have one....yet...  ;)

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Update: ObjectDock v2.0 Beta emulates Aero Peek on Vista and XP :)

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Wish that the Aero Peek worked in the running tasks section of objectdock, not just on the application shortcut icons, then I could use it with any program that has multiple windows instead of having to add shortcuts to everything possible on my dock :)

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Quoting JMB1984, reply 7
Update: ObjectDock v2.0 Beta emulates Aero Peek on Vista and XP
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Nexus 10.8 Beta 1 does also...acts just like the W7 taskbar.

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Nexus 10.8 Beta 1 does also...acts just like the W7 taskbar.
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Yes, but this isn't Aero Peek. Aero Peek is what you get when you mouseover the button to the right of the systray and all open windows go transparent.   Just sayin'...:-"

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Actually AeroPeek is both.

Justg making all Windows transparent to show your desktop icons and gadgets under Winstep Xtreme is not very useful, for instance: to start with, you can use the Desktop tab on the Shelf so you can run with a 'clean' desktop (i.e.; no icons or with hidden icons). Then you can use the built-in Hide/Show Desktop Modules internal command (which you can add to a dock, Shelf tab, menu, taskbar, or even invoke via a keyboard shortcut) to have something similar to Apple's Dashboard, in which the Winstep Desktop Widgets come forward and go back on demand.

What Xtreme/Nexus allow you to do is the most useful part of Aeropeek, i.e.; mousing over a window thumbnail renders all other windows transparent AND displays the window even if minimized.

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Justg making all Windows transparent to show your desktop icons and gadgets under Winstep Xtreme is not very useful,
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It is if your looking at porn and your wife walks into the room.....not that I'd ever do that, just saying.

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AHAHAHAH! Well, seen from that perspective, WIN+D works just as well if not better. :grin: