

And you could scroll through the list and choose the desired app. Remember that Win+Tab widnow switching in Windows 8? You used to get a nice 3d carrousel of open applications. However, its not exactly the way it was on Windows 7. Window borders aren’t the same and shadows are gone.ģ. Once done, switch back to “Color and Appearance” window and click “Save changes”.īoom! You’ve Aero Glass back. In the “Personalization” window, select any of the Windows Default themes. Click settings on charms bar and click “Personalization”. Minimize the “Color and Appearance” window for now and open Charms bar by going to right corner.Ĥ.

When done, click ‘Color’ at the bottom.ģ. Select the “High contrast white” theme and wait for it to be applied to your desktop. Right click on the desktop, click Personalize.Ģ. You can use Aero8Tuner to automate this task or follow the instructions below:ġ. However, you can get an approximate of that with neat trick described below: Enable Aero Glass on Windows 8Īero Glass is totally gone, no matter how much you loved it. Press OK.Īlternatively, you can right click the show desktop button and click “Peek at desktop” and it will be enabled. Right click on the taskbar, click Properties.Ģ. Check “Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar”. However, there is no peeking to desktop on hovering. Click in the empty space next to the clock in the taskbar still takes you to desktop when few windows are open. The rightmost button on taskbar used to give you peek of desktop. How To Enable Aero Effects on Windows 8 1.

Windows 8 leaves Aero Shake and Aero Snap enabled, rest of them can be enabled. Lets go ahead and talk about how to get all the Aero effects back on Windows 8 Desktop. However, Windows 8 did leave ways to enable all of them, and regain the lost love. When Windows 8 was announced, it was time to jump to a Modern UI (formerly Metro UI) but it later became evident that it would not support Aero effects which we loved.
