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Edit the default aero theme with Windows Style Builder and add the resources from RP, borders, caption buttons, etc...

Nvm, I did it using Windows Style Builder.

Ok, edited the default aero theme and changed the borders, shadows and the caption buttons with the ones from Release Preview, it looks much better but something is missing, the glow behind the text in window title. I also added the glow texture in the msstyle but from what I know you must hex-edit NORMAL.RES in VARIANT to enable glow. The problem is that I have no f**king idea which is the address for that! Some users with experience in theme editing can help me? Thank you.

Could you share your theme, you posted a screenshot earlier. --edit-- Nvm, I found the theme, I have rounded borders now http://xxinightxx.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Vs-REV-D-350491112 --edit-- lol, I had rounded corners while my friend was in my pc with teamviewer, after he left the rounded corners stopped working... strange.

Not working, got them from win7 theme and imported in aerorp...

Thanks I think I found it It uses some trick to add these w7-like glass lines. I'm willing to bet removing the sharp corners will do the trick Yeah that was it rounded corners are working now, but without the glass effect for now I want rounded corners, tried to do it myself but the border files I found in .msstyle were already rounded and didn't worked, any help? What files should I change?

The amount of blur in d3d can be changed in the current version(0.7) by modifying that reg entry or you will add it in the next version? --edit-- Or you talk about win7?

I must admit there is no HideBlur in my Win7 installation and neither DWM knows this value. But it works, disabled blur when used that command in the latest version of windows 7. Ah, only enable/disable blur, no blur amount control? I will miss d2d because the gpu temp is a bit higher with d3d...

From what I found on google, PainteR made a patch for Start8, is the same PainteR? Why he is in the 'thanks' section?

Much better

Thanks for TEAM CRUDE was added by me since 2.0. Sorry if it confuses anyone; they're crackers but deserve a thanks for their hard work.

I have a little issue, downloaded version 1 a long time ago from a forum, installed the app, changed some options, blabla.. then I checked the official website of SIB for updates and I found out that SIB is not free and there is a 30 day trial, then I opened the properties in SIB to see how many days of trial are left but the app was fully activated, of course, that was fine for me. Then I recommended SIB to a friend, he downloaded the setup from the official website and after the installation he checked the 'About' section and his version was trial. I started to search on google and found a lot of links with "StartIsBack pre-activated CRUDE", the strange thing is this TEAM CRUDE, their name is written in the 'About' section of SIB, then I realized that I have an pirated version because my friend don't have those names in 'About Section' and the trial was active. Uninstalled the app then downloaded a new version from SIB official website and bought a license for 5 pc's, the application was successfully activated but those names are still there, my friend don't have those names. The question is, how can I remove those names from there? Re-installed, cleaned registry, nothing works. I can prove I have purchased a license for 5 pc's and what you see in screenshot is a legit version downloaded from SIB official website and activated two times, the second time was when I tried to get rid of those names by re-installing.

CustomThemeResource should be a string value and the data is the file name or the whole path?

Just bought a license for 5 PC's. Love it!

Lower the color intensity in Personalization Menu?

Works perfectly, with this version the windows are still laggy with the GPU idle clock profiles but the lag is less noticeable, moving the window a bit will change the p-state and the lag will disappear but the p-state will change again in idle, for now I will live with it... --edit-- Increasing the clocks of an idle profile will improve performance but when opening more than 3 windows guess what, the lag appear, forcing a higher p-state and again, performance is improved, this time the lag will appear after opening not 3 but 6 or 7 windows, forcing the highest p-state, the gaming profile, will fix the problem but who wants the highest clock profile in desktop/idle? This is not native aero, it's like a D3D game with huge system requirements.

It works great but the app still don't like my GPU idle clock profiles, it lags. Forcing a fixed gpu profile and ignoring the idle clocks is not a good option but the lag will disappear, for now. If you open more than ten windows in explorer, then you grab a window and move it over the other windows you will notice a big lag, but this can be fixed by closing some windows. Btw, loaded the glass with the system. Unfortunately, as I said earlier, there is some problem that causes poor performance with layered windows in your computer. And there is very small chance that this will ever be fixed (unless someone finds a way to correctly composite hidden areas of desktop without layered windows). Btw, can anyone confirm that the problem with fullscreen games has been fixed in this version? Will never be fixed? I'm not the only one with this problem, did you tested it on a notebook, did you asked other notebook users? Yes, I played some bioshock infinite and there is no lag with aero enabled

It works great but the app still don't like my GPU idle clock profiles, it lags. Forcing a fixed gpu profile and ignoring the idle clocks is not a good option but the lag will disappear, for now. If you open more than ten windows in explorer, then you grab a window and move it over the other windows you will notice a big lag, but this can be fixed by closing some windows. Btw, loaded the glass with the system.

Yes, it is a DWORD32bit value and D2D. --edit-- Ah, **** ,the value can't be 0, setting blur to 0 will make the borders black. I got it.

Unfortunately, transparency & animation does not work well with Windows 8. This may or may not be fixed in the future. Disabling transparency and using Aero Glass 0.5 for Windows 8 will solve the problem, we have full aero with soft animations . But the Aero Glass project is a bit laggy with my GPU(GTX 670M) idle clocks, so, for now I will disable transparency and enjoy the soft animations. I'm sure this can be fixed somehow. Thank you for your response.

Could you please tell me if the animations will be 'fixed' or something, using transparency will make the animations look strange, I have to disable transparency to make them soft, like win7. I have no idea if that is a bug or they are supposed to work like that? Thank you.

Can't disable blur, I have 'BlurDeviation' set to 0 only in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM" but blur is still active. Any help?

That can be fixed by disabling start menu translucency (or animations). This will be fixed in a future version?

In 0.4 or in that private build? In all versions dude, all versions have lag, I don't care if you fix it or not, but just give me an explanation. I told you, to fix the lag I have to make the GPU gaming profile fixed, but who want 50+C GPU temp in idle/desktop mode... This tells me that your pretty app is hunger for GPU resources, I understand, debug version, alpha, etc. but I still want some answers. Thank you. Sounds more like your drivers aren't properly adjusting power states for the workload. Even if his implementation required 10x the resources and workload of MS's it should not produce a noticeable effect with a GTX 670 - it should be more than powerful enough to run dozens of fullscreen sheets of solid glass on top of each other without a hiccup. The problem is very likely on your end (drivers or profiles you made) since very few others seem to have the issue on what I would imagine to be less powerful hardware, unless everyone in this thread has a GTX680. I had no problem running his glass implementation from 0.3 on my 6950 and it showed almost no GPU utilization and near idle temperatures. And your GTX 670 should be faster than my 6950. I have the latest drivers, clean installation, no GPU custom profiles as I already said, the lag occur only with the low profiles, idle/dekstop... Forcing a higher profile will fix the problem but I don't like the idea of running a high profile in idle/desktop... I have no idea why I want so much the Aero but after a few weeks of using Win8 I couldn't find anything special so I'm thinking about going back to Win7, idk.

Poor performance? I have an ASUS G75VW, i7 3610QM, GTX 670M, 12GB RAM...