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Woops! I'll fix that.

What's incomprehensible to me is why there is a debate, actually. Bigmucle created this software. He is entitled to do what he wants with it. He has the right to stop the development at any time if you bother. He has the right to propose to the test under the condidtions of his choice. - Even if these conditions seem foolish to you. As users, we have two possibilities. 1 / Accept the conditions and use the software 2 / Decline the Terms of Use and do not use the software We do not have the right to disassemble, decompile, patch, in short make any changes to the program without prior authorization - Even if these changes appear to be useful and beneficial. After that, if you violate the terms of the contract and bother the only person able to develop the project to the point of discouraging him from improving the software, do not complain if no new version comes. If I were bigmuscle I wouldn't waste my time developing software for a bunch of morons and would spend it on more useful things. That's all you have gained. No more previews. Finished. End. Thank you for your work Bigmuscle, it was a pleasure to test previews, discuss technical details and develop a GUI to help testing. I learned many things about the Windows API, and ironically, thanks to the popups I had some challenges ahead like learning how to simulate mouse/keyboard input, register Windows Tasks, and so. If you still continue to develop the software and a final version appears, I'd be happy to buy it, or donate if it's provided for free.

You registered a corrupt or wrong bitness DLL (eg 32 bit dll on 64 bits system) as AppInit_dll so there's an error message each time you launch an app. You should remove it from AppInit_dll and re-download a clean copy from the original link or use the correct DLL corresponding to your system. Glass is visible on your screenshot probably because you used AGTweaker, which installed the correct DLL for you, which is still loaded in the window manager.

Hmm, could we go back to the main topic? Feedback for Aero Glass for Win8 v0.8

Transparent windows with v0.7 + AGT 1.2.2 is abnormal. Did you check that the statusbar of AGT 1.2.2 is displaying "v0.7 BETA 1" ? if not:

You can also use the DLL files packaged with 1.2.1 with AGTweaker 1.2.2. The strange behaviour of blur/opacity is due to direct3D rendering from DWMGlass.dll. You can enable direct2D only with DWMGlass v0.7 max, this is no longer supported as of v0.8.

Did you applied that with AGTweaker ? If so, see in the status bar of the tool which version you are using. v0.8 = Normal, v0.85 = Debug Use the delete button on the bottom right corner to delete the installed version if you still have v0.8 You will probably have to reboot and press the button a second time before activating v0.85.

Also managed to do that on my own computer by muting messagebox calls but you should not publish your changes there. If you can patch it out then that's good for you but you are not allowed to share any patch or crack on this forum (read the rules). In addition, it would be against the terms of use proposed by bigmuscle and a deep mark of disrespect towards his work. So please keep that for you Try the debug version provided by bigmuscle here: http://leteckaposta.cz/306250185

If you see "v0.85" or "(DEBUG)" you have the debug version, otherwise you have the normal version. (v0.8)

Don't know, I only have one extra monitor available and plugged it only to make the test with WinID.

Tried again with the cursor in the right place: taksbar 1 : http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/7470/taskbar12.png taskbar 2 : http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2492/taskbar22.png That's still not the same HWindow.

I bet it could mess with the routine that applies the alpha-254 layered trick on all opened windows to force redrawing what's behind them as it's also based on the use of a timer

Not easy as path containing spaces are not supported by AppInit_Dlls : C:\Windows\DWMGlass.dll <- valid C:\Users\My Name\My Folder\DWMGlass.dll <- invalid

Use the button in bottom right corner to delete the installed DLL. It will probably disable glass and say that's still in use, so restart your compurter (with glass disabled), re-launch AGTweaker and press this button again. It should then display "Successfully deleted" and you'll be able to install the new one properly

Taskbar 1 : http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1621/taskbar1.png Taskbar 2 : http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5879/taskbar2.png It seems to be two different controls.

Values are described here : See the first post of the topic, and click on "for Aero Glass Preview" links to get bigmuscle's release notes for this preview/beta. I hosted a mirror link for each preview and bookmarked the release notes as they were posted by bigmuscle. EDIT: Yes, you may also see readme.txt

That's due to the way Direct3D is rendered by DWMGlass, not caused by AGTweaker itself You are kicked from your logged account if dwm crashes too often, and restarting dwm by clicking OK or Apply in AGTweaker is considered as a crash by Windows.

Woops, sorry for that, it was reading the correct key but forgot to change the writing path to HKCU. It's now fixed, please re-download AGtweaker-1.2.2.zip

With the debug version I get this popup and it works as expected, blur is drawn.

I made a piece of code allowing to know the process name of any window, and got "Aero Glass for DWM" popup attached to csrss.exe process. lol. Anyway, studied that only because I was bored at the moment I found this. Here is an update for AGTweaker, v1.2.2: [*] Changed advanced settings to fit the new Beta 2 [+] Added a status bar allowing to know which version is currently installed in C:\Windows [+] Can detect version 0.7 and version 0.8, Otherwise "Unknown Version" is displayed. [+] Added a button to delete the installed version of DWMGlass.dll

Yes, that was easy to find. DWMGlass.dll injects into csrss.exe and use MessageBoxW() function from user32.dll (Windows API) to trigger popups every ~1h. As csrss is a system process you can't kill it without crashing Windows, that's why bigmuscle chose this process to handle the popup system. Of course, as this process starts with windows, enabling Glass after Windows startup should disable popups as long as you don't reboot.

The same, but as I had a system crash meantime, I had to "refresh" my computer (the reinstall feature of windows 8) and it placed back the 6.2.9200.16384 version instead of 6.2.9200.16420. I'm installing all the available windows updates to see if I'm getting again the right version.

Oh, snap! You're right I have udwm.dll ver. 6.2.9200.16384.

Thanks for this update. Applied it (disable glass, reboot, replace dll, enable glass, restart dwm), but there's no blur for me I may have done something wrong, but basically I used settings from v0.7

If you are using Explorer7 the CMD window is hidden, otherwise the window is only minimized in taskbar. The tool does not stay in tray, once job is done it closes.