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If nothing changes then provide your debug.log (stored in Aero Glass folder) which should contain information why the key has not been loaded.

could you provide debug.log ?

This black rectangle appears when switching between taskbar previews even without my Aero Glass.

Uploaded new experimental build for 10074. Link on the website. If you want to set frame color, you need to use my Aero Glass GUI. Color settings from new personalization app is not respected.

I guess they didn't want to do any reimplementation. Accent effect is just undocumented feature since Win8.0 which allows to make window fully opaque/partially transparent/fully transparent. Now, they just added gaussian blur effect (that D2D implementation is at about 5 lines at code) as another accent style. But up to now, I was hoping that grey active title is just a bug. But it is not, the color is hardcoded for non-high-contrast themes to 0xe6e6e6

Just updated ModernFrame.dll to included symbol patterns. It should work on build 10061 without problem. I just noticed that it writes its own caption text over it, so I removed mine (so you won't see any text on builds < 10061). http://glass8.eu/win_future.html

My first observation on build 10074 (I didn't install, only got dwmcore.dll and explorer.exe). The blur effect is nothing more than blurred accent and its implementation exists even in build 10041 (I just didn't find exact accent values to enable it yet). It cannot be used for blurring window frames and glass safety zones/occlusion implementation (the most important thing to get full-performance blur without artefacts) does not exist at all.

Good news anyway. I don't know if I'm stupid or MS is stupid but they accidentally released symbols for dwmcore.dll (10061.9). They cannot be downloaded anymore but my Aero Glass managed to catch them and after some small changes, glass effect works correctly.

Please, do not create topics for "Aero Glass does not work in Win10 build XXXX" and use already existing topic for all Win10-related stuff. btw, it is not intended to work on any other build than <= 10041.

Please, don't be off-topic, use this topic for GUI discussion only.

It does not check anything. You can use downloaded key forever, you just cannot redownload it if you lose it.

Yes, it is as My1 says - you don't have to be online at all. The internet connection is needed only for downloading the software, downloading the key and, if needed, downloading the symbols.

In fact, there is nothing to fix. Aero Glass utility is intended to provide glass effect during desktop composition in DWM and not to override custom drawing of applications.

There were some reports that machine ID sometimes accidentally changes, especially after driver update or OS reinstall. That's why I allowed infinite keys for anyone (but with 30 days restriction to avoid abusing). On the other side, I asked those users to provide info before and after update, so I can check where the problem is (e.g. what causes the machine ID to change) but noone provided anything. So it is the question whether the problem really exists.

For me, the biggest problem is that Start menu will not often open at all and search bar/results do not react on mouse click. And this problem appears in any build after 9926. But on the other side, the last build seems faster.

For me, each new build is worse and worse then the previous one. I installed 10061 but I will not use it, it is unusable for any testing.

See guide http://www.glass8.eu/guide.htmlfor install instruction. For Win10, use same steps as for Win8.1.

I didn't check those leaked builds yet, I have only 10049 as the last one, so I will wait until anything new is officially released.

Yes, any amount does unless you want to limit it as much as possible (Also amount hints are predefined on the website)

Yes, it will happen when you normally try to load some unsigned theme manually. The problem can come when DWM wants to load unsigned theme, it will result in neverending crashing loop.

Black screens are not caused by the "hacking-SW" itself. Remember that this kind of software allows you to load unsigned theme. So what happens when unsigned theme is stored in the registry but no such software is loaded? Theme loading will fail which results in the black screen.

There is absolutely no magic in blurring the taskbar on the second monitor. It works exactly in the same way as blurring any other window.

Yeah, it currently does not work. The function which is responsible for adjusting the colorization is inline so I am unable to hook at the requested time. I will try to find a solution when Win10 final is released.

I uploaded experimental 64-bit debug build for 10041. It should work on Win8.1 too. It has not been tested at all - just that it runs.

This is not Aero Glass, it is just pure layered window transparency which is there since Windows XP.