Window of alt - tab will not stay above other windows in Windows 7

When I do an alt - tab in Windows 7, if I change constantly window (by pressing alt and quickly by clicking tab), it will be in Peek mode.  Normally, I'm expecting the alt - tab window to stay on top, when comes the Peek, but instead of this, my little alt - tab window disappears behind the windows being presented by the look.  I can still scroll through windows by pushing alt - tab, but my window has disappeared.  When I tried this on someone else the Windows 7 box, it has not done this.

I recently started having this problem.

In my case, I narrowed down it to the Windows Gadgets (i.e. sidebar.exe). Once I have closed all my gadgets, the problem disappeared. Otherwise, when I killed sidebar.exe, the problem disappeared.

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