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I'm currently aware of one crash in Win8.1 DWM - if you disconnect from RDP session leaving the charmbar opened, it will crash when you relogin to your normal session. I must test whether this is fixed in Spring2014 update.

I checked the dump and I must admit that I don't know the cause. It crashed in dwmcore outside of my code but I don't know whether it can be caused by something from my library or not.

You set invalid path to glass reflection image.

Of course, you are right. But if you look at the second post in this topic, it contains description for most common problems. It also contains information that Aero Glass works on Spring 2014 if symbols are present etc. Also my homepage contains this info. Despite of this, the last ten pages of this topic contain questions how to get it run on Spring 2014 update over and over again and new questions are still coming. You can also find this question here although the exact description is two posts above this question. Is this normal? So, I could even pin most complete information info the first post but a) users will still write that he searched, didn't find it and ask over and over again and B) whereas it works correctly for users who supported the development, I don't see any reason why I should support users who didn't support the development ;-)

Is it really hard to read the last several pages of this topic where it has been solved milliontimes?

My installer does not add any registry settings. So there is something in any DWM key (regardless it is Wow6432Node or not), it has not been added by the installer.

According to your screenshots, you should read the guide again.

Aero Glass for Win8.1 Spring2014 Update DEBUG version Here is the first debug version with hardcoded symbols for Windows 8.1 Spring2014 update. It is debug only and it is intended for testing only! http://glass8.berlios.de/stuff/spring2014.7z Changes: * hardcoded symbols for dwmcore.dll version >= 17031 * make some generic patterns to work regardless the dwmcore.dll/udwm.dll version (probably won't work on some specific versions) * display version of udwm.dll and dwmcore.dll in debug log * display DLL path of loaded Aero Glass in debug log * fix crash when some symbols fail to load Now, it should not need symbols on Spring2014 update but it is needed to be tested before releasing. If it still needs them (your get DWM incompatibility message, or symbols are loaded from PDB) then provide debug.log file. Install version 1.2.1 and replace dwmglass.dll with respective file from this update, then restart. Do NOT use if you are consumer user only! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

RoundRectRadius is only to set the radius of glass geometry. To have rounded graphics, you need to update the theme texture which is placed above the glass but you must do it on your own. Just create your own theme atlas (or use any existing with rounded corners). Please, check that you updated the registry correctly. DisableGlassOnBattery settings is read from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key only and you need to restart dwm process (or your computer) to apply it.

ace: if you mean a tool which simply switches blur on/off and leaves pure transparency then I think it would make no sense. You still need to hook DWM to handle occlusion correctly thus you will again end up with DWMGlass.dll ;-) Now, you can simply make a script which changes BlurDeviation settings and then send WM_THEMECHANGED message to DWM Window.

saxopov: Hello, I register all messages but I don't have much time to solve them all at once. I will try to go through all donation/key messages during this weekend. But to anyone requesting a key - there are written conditions on the website http://glass8.berlios.de/support.php and if your support is valuable then you should get an e-mail to your PayPal address which redirects you to http://glass8.berlios.de/donate.html where you can generate your key. I will try to update this page to provide you more information, such as value of your support, number of keys you can generate, number of keys remaining etc. Just give me some time.

If symbols are downloaded to ProgramData then it is wrong. C:\ProgramData folder just contains global user data (c:\users\allusers) and I guess that symbols are redirected there just due to some UAC redirection when DWM could not correctly access the directory where AeroGlass is stored.

When symbols are needed to be downloaded from Microsoft server and connection fails, it waits for 15 seconds and then retries. However, this happens in DWM's background process and does not influence foreground activity at all. User just notices that glass effect does not appear immediately. But it happens once, not always. If it happens always there is some problem on the local system (almost connected what I mentioned above - if log cannot be written, then also symbols will not be written and thus it will result in symbols downloading every time DWM is restarted).

There can be more reasons but the most common are: mixing AppInit_DLLs and AeroHost together, wrong permissions on folder where DLL is located or some 3rd party tweak (or script) which messed something.

oomek: if setting EnableLogging (under HKLM!!!) to 0x1 displays only these three lines, then it is problem in your setup. However, aerohost is executed by Task Scheduler in the background and it then periodically checks for all DWM processes. There can be some delay before injection is completed, but it does not influence anything because it runs in the background.

Nice command, I didn't know about it. I have my own utility which works exactly in the same way as AeroGlass detects it: http://glass8.berlios.de/stuff/HDDDetector.7z

Chris123NT: it takes serial number of HDD/SSD. It's information which is fixed and does not change with reinstall nor low level format. I guess, there can be a problem that driver rejects serial number retrieving but I believe that it would return empty string (or some special pattern) then. If empty string is returned, I can simply read it from machine code. But this situation have appeared just for one or two users up to now. The other users, who reported machine code change after reinstall, provided totally different machine code. Thus there are two possible cases - they changed their hardware and trying to play out the reinstall only or there is some other problem which is not known to me. But I don't believe that it would return completely different HDD/SSD serial number between reinstall. But if it does, I would like to see exact serial number returned before and after reinstallation. This would help fixing the potential problem.

If error about DWM incompatibility is displayed, it means that symbols have not been loaded.

Theoretically, it fully works on Win8.1 Spring2014 update. Practically, it works only for those who were able to read the instructions. It is the whole truth.

Just for clarification - I read every message which I received but I am very busy and not have much time to answer them immediately. Sometimes it takes one day, sometimes more days, there are even messages older more then a week which I didn't managed to respond to them yet. I'm trying to solve any problem but if and only if I have time. Simple... if someone thinks that I will sit here for 24 hours per day and will respond to any message immediately and if I don't respond to him, he starts making a scene, then yes, I will not hurry with answering him.

Sorry, we cannot explain it to you more. It has been discussed milliontimes in the last few pages and we cannot repeat answer again and again.

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This can be done with any resource editor by extracting STREAM resource from your .msstyles theme file. When importing it into AeroGlass, your system theme's STREAM must have exactly same layout else all graphics will be misaligned.

It is not necessary to answer your post part by part, because you summarized everything in the last part: But it is already specified on the website. The same, my website links to this forum and also specifies that this software is intended for advanced users only and beginners should not use it. So the resolution is: if user reads and follows all instruction properly, then Aero Glass works correctly on Spring2014 update.

Left or right? Doesn't seem to be working here.I use left CTRL but it should not matter, I use it almost every day, because my experiments break something very often :-D