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.