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a) Memory usage depends on amount of opened windows. I noticed that mainly Internet Explorer is able to increase memory usage a lot (but it does not depend on Aero Glass). B) Donation request will go away if you donate, of course. c) Restarting dwm.exe just means killing dwm.exe process in Task Manager. This is the fast way which works. Restarting whole system is cleaner but slower. d) this is for Windows 8 only. I was thinking to merge with 8.1 prototype but I didn't do it not to break anything. e) some FAQs are on the website. They are very short but they will gradually increase. f) machine code is based on your main HDD and CPU vendor - if you change one of this, you will need new license key. That's why you can generate more (but limited amount of) keys per donation. You can donate how much you want. For example 0.5€. The problem is paypal fee, I will get almost nothing for small donations - I have no problem with it but it is a but unfair to those who donated much more.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you version 1.0 of Aero Glass reimplementation for Windows 8. Download and all information are available on its website: http://www.glass8.eu Please, remember that this software is done in my free time and it is not done for any profit. You won't get the full service as in the case of regular paid software.

The problem with WindowFX is that it injects into DWM too, however the problem is already fixed in RC4.

As mentioned before, if you get "DWM incompatible" message after Windows updates, it is caused that your internet connection is not available when dwm.exe is starting and thus it cannot access MS symbol server to get information what has been changed in the update. This can be easily solved by manually restarting dwm.exe process. Or... you are using some kind of crack.

Because this is provocation only. But on the other side, if he developed better tool then there is no reason why I should ever release final

a) yeah, that's why I'm going to ask moderators to lock this topic and will create new one when final is out b) I recommend you to do better things than visiting this thread multiple times a day - then you won't be so impatient ;-) It seems that my home internet connection is working again but it is still very slow. If it does not crash again like every evening, I could probably build, upload and... :-)

No problems here either. What does it mean "has broken this application"? If the update influences dwm.exe file only, it cannot influence this application.

You cannot. Auto colorization automatically recomputes colorization settings every time wallpaper/theme is changed or explorer.exe is loaded.

I didn't ditch out anything. Version 8.1 still contains many of old code and it even loads tons of unused stuff into memory. Why? Because it is prototype, so I don't care that it does something wrong. You can always hide the popup by using this "silent thing" but it completely deadlocks kernel message queue which results that some applications will hang randomly and it also allows injecting malicious code into UAC secure screen. Or you can jest restart and reinject DLL (like ace's super duper script does) to extend trial period but you risk that it will randomly log you out (with losing all unsaved work) and because DWM in Win8.1 contains a bug, it can sometimes freeze (in black screen) when dwm.exe is restarted.

yeah, glass safety zone rendering requires access to some private Direct2D structure. So if they are changed, glass safety zone won't be generated correctly although blur effect will still be present.

There is nothing to be done with the shadows. DWM normally renders them - it just depends what shadow texture (or shadow part in atlas) contains.

Oh, OK. The reason I asked is because when I set the color to automatic, the color of the windows changes according to the changing desktop backround. And since I have set my wallpaper to change automatically every few hours, I rather like that feature of automatically matching window color. But NP, the glass effect is more important, so I shall choose a particular color and lower the intensity. What about blur? In the earlier versions, there was an option to control the blur (I was using one of the agtweaker apps to do it). Is it not possible anymore? I personally like to have a little less blur, so that I can (just about) read the text behind a window. The automatic color is not handled by DWM. Actually, you can manually change transparency for automatic color in registry, but next time you restart explorer.exe, your settings will be reset. Changing the amount of the blur is not supported. The reason is that my library uses native DWM pixel shader with precomputed values. I wanted to reimplement DWM algorithm to generate gaussian weights for custom blur radius but I have not found time for it yet. However, it will be supported in Win8.1 where the algorithm for blurring is much much simple.

Unfortunately, you cannot. It is by design that automatic means completely automatic.

EvilAlex: Yeah, I understand that many users do not see any difference between my AG and Stardock's WB and they see only "skinning application". But my library is not directed to such users. My library is (since the beginning) aimed at advanced users who want fully native hardware accelerated glass frames with blur effect. That's all. If user just wants to skin his windows, he should select different solution.

AlexKven: You can use them together without any problem. However, you will see blur effect with Win8 default theme only. The reason is what I said above - WB completely replaces Windows theme service and draw the controls on their own using GDI, so DWM frames are not drawn at all (like if you enable Windows Basic style in Win7).

Nope, there is no Stardock solution for Aero Glass. I don't even take it as a concurrency solution, because their software does something different. They provide theming application which is injected into system by very non-standard and undocumented way. It completely replaces default theme service resulting in incompatibility with many applications and provides only some degree of pseudotransparency rendered using GDI. On the other hand, my solution is completely native thing which renders real glass/blur effect using hardware accelerated Direct3D (Direct2D in Win8.1). Both are totally different things and it is very good that user can choose what he is searching for

Yzöwl: yes, I meant AppInit_DLLs :-)

DosProbie: Yor script could be easily used for installer, except one thing - what if LoadAppInit_DLLs already contains some value, does it merge it with new one to ensure that it does not break any other application?

Just to clarify. There is really hot weather so I have better things to do than sitting near my computer

Let's make a deal. Each post of type "when will it be released?" or something similar will delay the release for one day. I hope you all will stop this then - I do this library in my free time and nobody will try to command me what I should do. Ok?

I must admit that I don't know what's wrong with the transaction IDs but they don't match the ID specified with the payment at all. Thus if any donator has not received his full version yet, please check your spam folder, then contact me via PM with your transaction details (name, email etc.)

Nope, there should not be any other registry file. The link I post describes exact steps how to install this library and it even shows the image with highlighted items which you should set. The file is not here because you cannot ensure that it will not rewrite already existing values, that user correctly writes double backslashes and it sometimes does not correctly import at all - I don't know why but if I export this registry branch, the file name is encoded as binary string.

http://glass8.berlios.de/guide.html ;-)

Hi BM I donated 10 euro on the 11 of July (Unique Transaction ID 7FE05626J4420034Y), could you send me a gift please Please, check your spam folder. I sent a message to all donators yesterday evening. If you didn't receive it, write me a PM.

I know it takes me a lot of time to release final version. It is almost complete except one thing in 32-bit version which I don't have time for. Thus I decided that firstly I give the final version to all users who donated me to this day - something like a small gift so they don't have to wait forever. Wait for some response from me this afternoon...