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Soukyuu: Your log is invalid as it comes from some very old Windows 8 version. dzup: already answered - you have invalid permission on donation key. Error 5 means "Access denied". for those who have glow problem - what is your TextGlowMode settings?

Currently not, because it would require AppInit_DLLs injection again.

I checked the rights for c:\aeroglass folder. They were ok, but I manually added 'all' permissions to all users. Then I killed aerohost process in taskmanager, and opened install.bat from rc3 - aerohost launched, but nothing has changed. No debug is still created. But if I replace in the folder dwmglass.dll and aerohost with rc3 files and run install.bat - everything immediately works fine and debug begins to log. That's why I think this is not connected with write permissions... Here are the two dumps generated by the taskmanager for aerohost and dwm. Hope they'll help http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/27944963/file.html Then it seems it hangs on user check. I will try to analyze your dumps. Thanks. to create a DWORD from a HIWORD and LOWORD, you can use this equation: HIWORD * 65536 + LOWORD = your DWORD (in this, case HIWORD is the size of glow you want, LOWORD is 3, and the resulting DWORD is the number you hace to use in Registry) Do not use such complicated math. Just divide DWORD into the same long parts (WORDs) and set them separately. Just remember that you must use hexadecimal format. E.g. 0x000a0003 (=>HIWORD = a (which is 10 in decimal), LOWORD = 3)

No, these two work only in HKLM, because they are loaded immediately after DLL injection when there is no access to HKCU yet.

aerohost must be executed under SYSTEM account, so you should use Task Scheduler to restart it.

If you experience another glitches, please try to find out how to reproduce them and I will think about a way how we could connect to resolve the problem.

Checked, dwm is running and it is the child of winlogon The OS has the only account which has administrative rights. If I revert to rc3 and earlier, everything works correctly. I tried restoring old RC3 folder, then replaced DWMGlass.dll and aerohost.exe in it - same effect, not working and no log is created add: aerohost is running under SYSTEM account And there is no debug.log near aerohost.exe? As the host is running, it have to pass over initial log message. If it is not there, it is your privileges. Ensure that read and write privileges to your folder are correct. I just again remind it is not enough that privileges are enabled for your account (or your account has admin rights). It must be for Everyone, because aerohost.exe and dwm.exe runs under different user credentials. Also, which could help - could you generate minidump for both aerohost.exe and dwm.exe and send them to me? I think that Task Manager should be able to generate it.

Sorry if I did not post what I think, I'll rewrite: I want to make a donation to support developers and at the same time to have a license. Oh you can ask me, but why? Why besides supporting developers want to have something complete. Do not have a way to write the way I think, I know how is the job for you, also have a "work" in this area, but other than that you develop for Windows I develop for Android. I know that my answer was not what you expected. But simple answer could also be "donate how much you value it" all other information is already written on my website. srka: although I don't know your system, I just guess you should install the latest Windows updates. The other users with this problem just had old version of dwmcore.dll and update should solve it.

Only for DWM.EXE. Due to the technical reason, it is not possible to hardcode DWM's SettingsManager location (because it is just variable and its memory address can change very often). Symbols for other modules (DWMCORE.DLL and UDWM.DLL) are hardcoded and they don't need to be downloaded unless any future Windows breaks needed functions a lot. Donation key not loaded (5) - error 5 means "Access denied", so please, make sure that you have read privileges on your donation key. It is not enough to have read privileges for your account only. It must be readable by everyone, because dwm.exe runs under different credentials. This seems very interesting problem, especially when no debug.log is created. Aerohost always logs successes and failures on your dwm.exe process. The only possibility which comes to my mind is that it cannot find dwm.exe process properly. Conditions to detect dwm process are that process must be called "dwm.exe" and it must be child of "winlogon.exe". Could you verify this e.g. with Process Explorer? Also verify that aerohost.exe is running correctly with admin rights and under SYSTEM account. What I don't understand is that it should log at least "Installing DWM hook..." into debug.log. This sentence is logged everytime aerohost.exe starts. So if there is no debug.log at all, you should verify your system and privileges.

If you don't provide installer's log to check for errors, we can only say that installer does not need any other work, because it is still same as for Win8 where nobody reported any error. Can't you support Atlas on custom themes ? I need to enable Glow effect on this theme! Thank you Custom atlas is supported on any theme you use. It is just the theme which breaks he default layout and thus you need the atlas which has the same layout as your theme. There is no minimum donation to receive the license. You donate to support the development and not to buy/receive any license. Donation keys are only a gift for your donation. If you want to donate only to receive license, then please do not do it.

Of course, both values will work but it's not limited to this range only.

BlurDeviation is not from 0 to 100 and there is no reason to set this settings in registry if he does not want to change amount of the blur. And setting it to 30 has absolutely no sense.

Tusticles: confirmed, I will fix it in next version.

This seems to be just one problem - it installed to different location. Please uninstall a run setup again with command line parameter /LOG="log.txt", so: setup.exe /LOG="log.txt"and be sure you have write access to the folder where setup.exe is located. After install (if it still does not work) provide generated log.txt.

It is as I said:

Yes, it is known issue that glow effect is not properly updated for windows which have already been opened during DWM startup. Resizing window should fix the problem. Nope, it doesn't help. When windows is loaded on battery, all windows is like that. DWM restart helps though, but i hope it's possible to fix this.I must admit that I cannot reproduce it. But I found another bug when the change appears run-time - background windows frame will get fully transparent until I activate them manually.

You simply must use some tool which enables blur behind taskbar and disable accent on taskbar. Aero Glass is just native rendering engine and it's not there to explicitly change any window style.

New donation is not needed. It just must be some driver which does something wrong. Please PM me with your old and new machine IDs, I will check them and will provide you the possibility to upgrade. Also PM me output of this utility: http://glass8.berlios.de/stuff/LicensingTool.zip (and mark which HDD/SSD you have Win8.1 installed on).

Yes, it is different but as I remember correctly the only change is to always log fatal errors regardless the logging settings (verbose logging is normally disabled).

Nope, but you must have DWM.EXE symbols else your settings (including custom atlas with glow image) won't be loaded.

Yes, it is known issue that glow effect is not properly updated for windows which have already been opened during DWM startup. Resizing window should fix the problem.

chmichael: do not install custom glass theme during Aero Glass installation. Or delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM:CustomThemeAtlas registry value.

Yes, you can. I will update guide when I find some free time. But at this time, there are these possibilities to install: a) download installer version b) use old AppInit_DLLs method c) manually schedule task to run aerohost.exe with admin rights under SYSTEM account when your computer starts (this can be done using script from RC version) d) use any other injection method you know

POWER5058: I will check it. As a temporary fix, you need dwm symbols. (P.S. could you send me your c:\windows\system32\dwmcore.dll via PM) Gashuno: "Failed to load custom atlas file (0x3)" where 0x3 means "The system cannot find the path specified.". I need small help from users. Does this page http://glass8.berlios.de/donate.html contain enough information? Is some information missing, invalid or incomprehensible? Or is there any other reason why some users donate and then immediately makes complaint to PayPal that they have not received purchased stuff?

Gashuno: ok, I added the info about need of writable path into information above. The rest (why it does not work as you expect) has already been written in the first post. helmutcheese: I must admit that I don't understand your problem