MrGRiM

Has anyone else noticed when using the option to "enable glass on navigation bar" when you close a window the navigation buttons and address bar disappear just before the window closes? @Tihiy I was just wondering why all of the dll UI files that I add to my shellstyle.dll work aside from the gameux.dll UI files, is there a chance this can be fixed or is it something outside the scope of normal explorer that is stopping those changes from taking effect?

the only new feature is the caption text color so don't think it's worth updating for that.

What can I say mate, you are the man!!! Actually as it it seems this is all so easy for you with your mad skills, maybe you can figure out what MS did to stuff up custom theme System metrics not being applied, currently the only way to change the system metrics is through the registry unless your using Windows Style builder, for some reason when you test a theme using that it will update the system metrics and when you hit stop testing it actually manages to apply the correct system metrics for the applied theme, maybe I should get PandaX to make a small tool that somehow reproduces this testing but just applies it to the current theme. This is how Windows 8 should have looked

Amazing work Tihiy, I have one more request, can you add options to remove the extra padding on the address bar and navigation buttons and remove the up arrow please, that would make it perfect

Would it be possible to put a process check in place so that if for some reason the bypass doesn't function it returns back to the default aero theme?

Just let the main developer work with this kind of stuff. Works fine for me and the other 800 people who downloaded it without reporting any problems, maybe it's just you.

You might need to try and get to the recovery options and do a system restore, boot up and reset your PC a couple of times just before you get to the log on screen and it should start an automatic repair.

Thanks BM, this was a nice feature and a good fallback if UXstyle decides to fail.

That was mainly because he removed the old glass reflection image as well as the color swatch bitmaps that were left over from previous builds with the ability to use them.

I tried to add "DisableGlassOnBattery" into the registry since it was not there.(also set it to 0) But it is still not working. Did you try using my Aero Glass Configurator tool? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170384-aero-glass-cofigurator-for-windows-81/

You can use UltraUXThemePatcher instead. UxStyle doesn‘t work for me either. I have to agree MB's theme bypass works better then anything else out there, I am using UXStyle at the moment but it seems buggy and allot of the time it wont let me change theme unless I do a reboot, if I could use BM's signature bypass method I would, it's just a shame he removed all these features from the early builds even though they were working perfectly when using the old LoadAppInit_DLLs which I am still using in the 1.0 version anyway.

OK download is updated now with fixed version to enable disable aero glass on battery and logging

OK yeah I messed up there, I don't know why I didn't set that to HKLM, I will fix that now.

If you use the desktop shortcut or context menu shortcut it should have been running as administrator anyway, only if you click directly on the hta file will it not run as administrator.

This is normal behavior and has been like that since Windows 7 depending on how many items you have shown/pinned in the program list.

They are all in HKCU only

Thanks for the new version BM but I have to say I think it's very rude and intrusive to have the watermark remain on a final build, when it was in testing it was acceptable but in the final version this going to feel more like crap-ware and keep most people away from using it, I realize that maybe for some legal reason you are not able to sell your product and this is why you have chosen to call it a donation, but the fact remains, that this is still a paid software if you want it fully unlocked. Free is free and that means no constant nag screen on every start, no watermark on the desktop, show me any any other free software that does that, if you want to make being a donator (paying for it) worthwhile then make ta basic free version, remove all the other options in the registry to have custom theme atlas and reflections, text glow, etc and make those extra features available only to donators. Another thing that I think is very bad is the way you force non donators to download the symbols, it shouldn't matter if your a donator or not, your software should at least in a working state after download, automatic symbol downloading should be available for all. If you look at any other free software that has a paid for counterpart you will see that the free version still works and does what it's advertised to do without needing extra measures from the end user to get it working, you need to make sure that your software is user friendly and at the moment it isn't unless they have a key, so either get rid of the free version all together and only make it work for donators with a key or make both versions user friendly and function but remove the extra features on the free version.

Updated for Aero Glass for Win8.1 1.0

did bm ever respond to that? i'm running the rc3 now, still not clear how to set that No there was no response, I will wait for the final version before I release any updates.

Yeah it would be nice wouldn't it

Thanks for the RTM test version BM, I did notice there are still redundant resources in the DWMGlass.dll though, it still contains the glass reflection png and the Swatches bitmaps, are they still there for a reason, are there plans to re-implement the Swatches?

I give up with that new setting, I don't think it's possible to set the DWORD Hi and Lo value using vbscript in a HTA, please BM give the new setting it's own value TextGlowSize.

Thanks for the update, I am a bit confused by this TextGlowMode (DWORD): HIWORD and LOWORD value though, how do we set that in the registry? mrgrim, after he answers that will it be added to the configurator?I was going to try but I need to figure out how I can make it work using vbscript in the HTA At the moment for setting the glow type I have this: Sub SetTextGlowModeSet oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM"oReg.CreateKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strKeyPathstrValueName = "TextGlowMode"dwValue = InputBox("Text Glow Mode (0=No glow effect, 1=Glow effect loaded from atlas, 2=Glow effect loaded from atlas and theme opacity is respected, 3=Composited glow effect using your theme settings)", "Text Glow Mode", "")If dwValue = "" then dwValue = "" End IfoReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strKeyPath,strValueName,dwValueEnd SubBut I don't know how I can set a LO and HI value with it that way, I would prefer it if there was just the old DWORD value for TextGlowMode and a new DWORD value for TextGlowSize, that would make it simple for everyone I think

Thanks for the update, I am a bit confused by this TextGlowMode (DWORD): HIWORD and LOWORD value though, how do we set that in the registry?

Your using a Windows 8 theme on 8.1, the images locations in the msstyles have been changed in 8.1, the start menu images were removed and the jump list images were rearranged in the start menu locations, I believe this is a stupid attempt by MS to destroy functionality of older Windows 8 themes and the use of the msstyles for bringing back the start menu, this problem can be reversed though with the help of Start Is Back by Tihiy, his program will restore the start menu and fix the jump list as well as making all Windows 8 themes compatible with 8.1