The hack worked on RC1, am not sure if it works on the final. If someone
wants to test:
If your graphic card doesn’t support Windows Aero Glass, here a trick
that you can try to force Windows Vista to enable Windows Aero Glass on
Non-WDDM Compatible or Not Aero Supported graphics accelerator card or
processor, by disabling the check Windows Vista made to determines if
your system hardware fulfills minimum requirements for Aero Glass window
frame transparency.
Note: This method may or may not works with current RTM release of
Windows Vista (user feedback welcome), and may cause a blue screen loop
or constant flicker, so use with care and proper backup is a must.
Click on Start button, then select Run.
Type “regedit” (without the quotes). (If you do not turn of UAC, you
have to run as administrator: Right click on Command Prompt accessible
from All Programs -> Accessories, then select “Run as Administrator”,
click on “Allow” from the Windows Security dialog, then run “regedit”.)
Browse or navigate to the following registry
branch:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft
Create a new registry branch called DWM. (If DWM doesn’t work, try to
create and use WDM registry branch instead.)
Inside the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DWM\ registry branch,
create a new DWORD subkey called EnableMachineCheck.
Right click on EnableMachineCheck (or double click on it) to set the
value to 0.
Repeat above two steps to create another DWORD called Blur, and set the
value to 0.
Repeat again the steps to create another DWORD called Animations and set
that to 0.
Last two steps is to disable the blurring and animations effects to
lessen the load burden on your graphics card so that the system will be
responsive.
You can also disable slow animation effect, which slowly minimize or
slowly close the window(s) when the “Shift” Key is held when you
minimize or close a window with “AnimationsShiftKey”, disable use of
Elongated Buttons with “UseAlternateButtons”, or disable Aero Glass Copy
and Paste with “Glass”. To enable any of them, simply modify the value to 1.
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com
William wrote:
> There is a registry hack that will allow you to have aero, just not aero
> glass. There should be some here who know the hack and can post it again.
>
>
>
> "Dario Casertano" <dario.casertano@gmail.com
> <mailto:dario.casertano@gmail.com>> wrote in message
> news:1170191898.136536.247040@a75g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi,
> I've Windows Vista Business. I installing yesterday on my laptop...
> All is ok, but my graphic card is not good.
>
> I can't install another...
>
> How I can forcing Vista to let me use Areo theme?
>
> Thanks!
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