Windows 7 task bar icons stopped normal mouseover of the functions.

Usually, when you mouse over or hover over the 'show desktop' without clicking, you should see the office with a visible transparent window frames. It has stopped working. Usually when you hover over the icon of internet explorer in the taskbar, you can see thumbnail pages of everything you have open. Now it produces a list of these pages display. I tried to look at the taskbar settings, but do not see how I could change these functions.

Hello tomvaillencourt,

Thank you for visiting the Microsoft answers community.

Make sure that Aero Peek is activated in the taskbar:

·          Right click on the task bar > click Properties > check Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop > click OK

Make sure that Aero Peek is activated in the performance Options:

·          Click on Start Orb > right click on computer > click Properties > click on Advanced system settings

·          Under performance, click settings

Make sure that these are checked:

·          Activate Aero Peek

·          Activate the composition of the Bureau

·          Enable transparent glass

Now, click OK in each window to complete this action.

In addition, make sure you have a selected Aero theme:

·          Right-click on the desktop > click Customize

·          Select an Aero theme

Hope this helps

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