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Is the problem visible in the screenshot? I cannot notice anything wrong in that.

Of course, if anyone wants to make his system unstable, unsecure, decrease its performance and have glass full of random glitches, then he can use any of the development versions if he thinks that it provides more features for him.

Aero Glass for Win8.1 is not supposed to be working on any unreleased updates. "DisableGlassOnBattery" value has been always read from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE only as it is global settings. It is mentioned in the guide. Aero Glass for Win8.1 is DWM hook and it has nothing to do with some anti-cheat systems.

There is a small trick to do this. When you theme is stored in file aero.msstyles than it will use the grey color RGB(235,235,235). When the name is different, it will then respect values stored in the theme.

I think it's enough to read the first post in this topic to solve your problem.

Ah, I don't use Opera 19, it's the stupidest released thing ever

It does not work in Opera either although it is says it is supported.

Sorry, but if some page tells me to update or change browser, then it is unusable.

If they are for version 1.1, then please upload them.

Thanks for test. What is error code in debug.log? Just to know which DWM functions has changed.

You must edit your theme/atlas to contain rounded texture.

If you see that DWM is not compatible, it is because you don't have correct symbols. If the symbols were not downloaded, it means that your donation key is not loaded properly. The reason of this failure is written in debug.log. If it is error code 2, it means that file was not found (= you placed it in incorrect location). If it is error code 5, it means that your file system denies dwm.exe process to access this file.

Please, simply ignore him. He's just a poor guy from one Chinese forum where he publishes old betas of Aero Glass for Win8 and presents them as "cracked version"

So no, installer has no connection to other installation methods (or remainders from testing versions).

ace2: just two opinions => 1) try to format your scripts somehow, e.g. in the code etc., so they don't take million of lines. 2) try to avoid using other tools, e.g. "Take Ownership" etc., because all of the steps can be easily done just by elevating editor/command line/etc. paul70: guide is updated (although not all information is included) but install part is complete - there are three ways described: 1) AppInit_DLLs (deprecated for Win8.1, no aerohost.exe), 2) aerohost.exe (Win8.1 only, no registry editing), 3) installer which does everything for you.

It won't be implemented in Win8, because Aero Glass for Win8 relies on DWM objects which are created immediately upon startup.

It's not possible, because if "bypass hook" does not load properly then it cannot check it either. But I'm planning to hook registry updating and disallow any change of global theme in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT. It could help.

It's not here, because it would have probably no sense. Eventual black screens are not caused directly by this tool, but because DWM/UxTheme fails to load the theme and it would not be fixed by skipping this tool.

You can hold CTRL key during startup to avoid loading glass code into memory and then revert your changes. However, if the problem persists in safe mode too, then I doubt it is caused by Aero Glass.

Because you must decide what you really want. If you want to use your custom theme then you should not install our custom theme atlas (during Aero Glass installation). See the guide how to change the atlas settings. DWM is not supposed to be in services under Win8.x, because it is automatically started by WinLogon. Error 0x81 is rather about DWMCORE.DLL.

The color is not hardcoded. However, I just found that DrawThemeTextEx does not respect standard SetTextColor function and text color must be set separately. I will try to fix it.

Do you really perform a lot of HDD upgrades? No, you are not required... unless you are stuck with some 3€ limit. Sure, I will also buy Porsche, if they start giving it cost-free.

Provide your debug.log but I just guess that your permissions on AeroGlass folder are wrong - it must be accessible by everyone (so not only for Administrators or your account, but for everyone, because DWM.EXE runs under different user!) Yes, it injects into every process which can decrease your system stability and security. And it also requires SecureBoot to be disabled. This is a feature built in explorer.exe so it has nothing to do with DWM.EXE (that's why its not stated on my website). But DWM has similar feature - when theme name is different from aero.msstyle then grey inactive frame will go away and its color will derive from active frame (however, this makes no sense with my Aero Glass because it handles inactive color itself).

Nope, I cannot. This is how it works.

UxTheme service hook - Visual Theme Signature Bypass I just had a little bit of free time, so I extracted some older code from Aero Glass for Win8 into the separate DLL to make it work on Windows 8.1. It has not been tested, but you can play with this as you want, there is no limit. But also no support and probably no future development, because there is nothing more to change on it. Either It works or it does not work How to install? The only possible way to install it is using old injection method via AppInit_DLLs registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows -> set AppInit_DLLs value to specific DLL for your OS (so select either xxx32.dll or xxx64.dll only!) Although, it is not needed to make this work, it is also suitable that, on 64-bit Windows, you do the same "install" procedure on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows (but always with xxx32.dll!). If you don't do this, 32-bit theme-related applications won't be able to access your unsigned themes. Something to know? Yes! There is one very important thing if you use Aero Glass for Win8.1! Due to certain DbgHelp.dll restriction, Aero Glass for Win8.1 won't able to load PDB symbols after you install UxThemeSignatureBypass.dll into your system. There is a simple workaround - just copy symsrv.dll from Aero Glass directory into your system directory (probably C:\Windows\System32). I will try to bring a fix for this in future version of Aero Glass for Win8.1, but I cannot promise that, because its a bit complicated. License? It's freeware. Use as you want, just the copyright must be preserved. Where to download? http://glass8.eu/