AeroPeek11

Windows 11's release was a bit of an odd one: with how well Windows 10 was going, there was hardly any demand for a new OS iteration. While the new OS release is more of a major security update of sorts with a few visual flourishes on top, users will quickly notice the absence of some facilities present in Windows 10: the new context menus can be hard to attune to, and aero peeking is no longer there.

In the case of the latter, app developers have managed to find a way to bring that feature back. In case you miss that function, AeroPeek11 is here to provide it for you.

When it comes to getting the app to work, all you'll have to do is unpack the archive it comes in, then launch the executable. At its core, the program is a simple one, whose sole duty is to bring back the Windows peeking feature: and it does so without any complications.

While in the interface, interacting with the Position Peek button will allow the user to place the area that will trigger the peeking action. Place it wherever you like, then save the settings: hovering your mouse over that region will now activate the function.

If you're not happy with the position of the peeking area, modifying it involves a bit of a different process. In short, after saving your peeking area, a config file is created in the app's folder. In order to modify the region, users have to delete that config file —namely AeroPeek11.cfg — and start anew.

We chose our peeking region to be where it was on Windows 10: on the bottom-right section of the taskbar, after the date and time. To that end, the tool functioned as was intended, making it an easy recommendation for anyone missing that feature.