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Basically, see the title of this question.
By Aero Peek, I am in this case referring to the 'hover' effect you get when you move to the rightbottom of the taskbar area, the 'Show Desktop' button effect while hanging over it (NOT clicking it). The same effect can be manipulated by the WIN+SPACE key combination, which would make me think it might be more useful given the freedom my mouse has in wandering around. But yet, all it allows me to do is look that I can tell, so what is the point of it?
I get to see all my icons, so I would expect I could go click-click-click of only wanting those windows minimized/maximized, or actually allowing access to my desktop icons till I let go of the WIN key in the key combination.
It seems like a totally pointless feature to me at this point.
It really is more an expansion of the old tasbar which only told you the title of a window in, possibly, a stack. One feature that I find nice about it is that once you WIN+SPACE key to the area of focus, you can alt tab directly to them and see the window completely (basically applying a filter to alt+tab). And, since the taskbar is now static for things you have pinned to it you can always remember the numerical offset of your fav area. It's a personal preference I guess. Regardless, disable it and you can go to the old ways (with stack) – Kevin Peno – 2009-12-16T00:46:49.077
2I am afraid you kind of lost me. I can just Alt+Tab and get this filter thing, so where does WIN+SPACE come into it? If I understand Molly (see answer below) correctly, my only purpose for WIN+SPACE is to ogle any gadgets, since interacting with the stuff I am peeking is completely impossible. – None – 2009-12-16T03:20:53.030