bigmuscle

You cannot remove colorization from the taskbar only. You can only switch taskbar to the glass mode, then it will automatically derive glass color so you could remove all glass color only. But if I remember correctly, taskbar color change can be done in StartIsBack.

Which sh-it do you mean? That all sh-t which comes with your script above which periodically spams all windows with WS_EX_LAYERED message, makes all window content slightly transparent (so you cannot even watch the movie at night, because you see everything beneath), rendering all (even invisible) content on your desktop to totally reduce your PC performance and increase power consumption a lot and with this all, to have only transparent border without any additional features/effects etc.? I can say that your LayeredWindowsHack script is much bigger sh-t than having small watermark on the desktop

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170850-aero-glass-for-win81-125/?p=1065881 Theoretically, I have no problem to give an access to unlimited version to anyone who supports with anything. Practically, I tried this at the beginning and there were many users who were abusing my system by donating 0.01€ and similar in the style "ha ha, I donated as small as possible, bigmuscle gets nothing and I will get full version". Since I want to avoid this unfair behaviour, I set up the lower bound of the donation. I will not mention the minimal value publicly (because there would be again many users who would abuse it) but I can say that I think it is very low and everyone should dig into his conscience, to say what's his intention of donation and then select the fair value.

I wanted to make some changes, but local internet provider works like a shit so at least I managed to make it work in old state. So new URL is http://www.glass8.eu and I will make additional changes when my internet connection works properly.

btw, if someone thinks that something was missing on old website or something I should add there, any opinion is welcomed.

The web site is already set up, I just need to finish some last things.

I don't see the problem that only me knows the expected values, because it is nowhere stated that such absurd value should be set there. Also, there is an installer since the 1.0 was released and you can still see people creating scripts that edit AppInit_DLLs value. When I published testing version of my GUI utility, how many users did test it? Three? Five? The rest only continued with creating erroneous scripts. Thus I don't think that creating official utility will solve something.

Glass is always enabled on DWM frame unless application disables the DWM rendering.

Good, thanks for your screenshots. At least, others can see what will happen when using 3rd party tools or scripts which set absurd values to your registry. Just a hint - when zero blur deviation makes the border fully transparent, what do you think that happen when the value is absurdly high?

Simply set BlurDeviation to zero.

Why the hell people still advise to modify AppInit_DLLs registry key? No wonder that there is many complains about black screen then :-/ btw, it is possible to connect to the database again, so I temporarily enable the login into the profile so users can generate their keys. New donations are still disabled and will be enabled on new website, because I cannot currently ensure that the donations are correctly written into the BerliOS database. Also remember, that connection to BerliOS DB can be suspended at any moment.

I already explained this some time ago. The real problem lies in the technique how this utility is implemented. People should realize that it is very low-level thing which tries to reimplemented Aero Glass effect in almost exact way as it was implemented in Win7/Win8 RP. Many undocumented API is used etc., so it may happen that one day it will be almost impossible to reimplement it in some future version of DWM. Although it was a bit "easy" to reimplement it in Win8, it was very difficult to make it fully work in Win8.1. Thus people should realize that their money don't ensure that this application will be always 100% fully working, because they bough it, but they are donating because "I will try to do all my best to make it work". Hello, actually it does not depends on me but on the new webhoster. I will inform here, but I hope it won't be more than one week ;-)

Miguel_S: Although I have never seen such behaviour, according to your description above, it seems that your system does not provide power information correctly. And I must admit that I don't know the solution for this.

No, I don't fail this project because it still goes in the path which has been specified in the beginning = utility which is done in free time mainly for private (education) purposes and for fun. Nothing more. Maybe, but not more than any other project which must rely on undocumented API. No, it is not needed if user is using supported version of OS. The same as above, the software itself cannot cause black screen. The donation is just a donation - you want to donate, so you get PayPal address. Nothing more, nothing less. Mostly covered by Wolfshadow above: "The fact that this forum is so long with a lot of whiners (not necessary meaning you) has most people not looking for the solutions by reading previous postings as well."

Sorry to disappoint you but it is your millionth post where you are claiming that Aero Glass is not for you (or you won't be using it) but you are still here

Generating keys is not currently possible because BerliOS developer website is being closed and it is not possible to connect to their database from the outside. I am going to buy external hosting for this software and will set it up there, just please be patient, it can take some time.

It is the bug in your theme.

I am sorry if my answer was not what you expected. But look, the main goal and intention of my Aero Glass utility is to return the transparency effect on glass regions. So what do you think that answer should be when someone asks how to disable transparency effect? Or... will you open the door if you want to have door closed? Next time, you should rather specify what you want to reach.

No, it was meant seriously just because I don't see any reason to install application which makes your borders transparent if you don't want to transparency ;-) But on the other side, check the http://glass8.berlios.de/guide.html, I believe you find the settings which allow you to set the amount of the transparency.

You should uninstall Aero Glass in such case.

falcon26: read the instruction and conditions on the website DosProbie: I will read it and try to reply as soon as possible, probably tomorrow from my office computer when network connection works better than this one.

DosProbie: yes, my mistake. Thanks for correction :-)

Yes, you are right. Any crash report will become lost in the heap of other posts. I was already thinking about creating special forum for my Aero Glass, but it makes no sense from my past experience. If you want to donate just to get rid of popup and watermark then you should not donate at all. Donations are NOT intended for this purpose. btw, server is up again, but due to BerliOS migration its state can vary from time to time, so I will try to make a new hosting. But I have no time to do this currently. EDIT: fixed a typo

Nope, it is not closed down. Server is down for a few days - is it the reason why people must unleash mass hysteria?

I'm not sure whether it can be called "aerolite hack", because it is rather internal feature of Windows Explorer. The source code simply contains: if ( ! IsWindowsClassicBasicOrHCTheme()){ fEnableAccent = true; fEnableBlur = false;} else { fEnableAccent = false; fEnableBlur = true; }return UpdateTransparencyProperties(pTray->hWnd, fEnableAccent, fEnableBlur);so nothing to hack