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That's not typical. But I don't know how to help you - I think Big Muscle will have to be involved to comment on what could be happening inside AeroHost. What's in your debug.log file? -Noel P.S., Mine has used just 5 minutes of CPU time in almost 10 days of uptime.

Note specifically these instructions: Hope this helps -Noel

What's really funky is that even if you show Hidden Items, the "hover summary" will STILL exclude hidden items. -Noel

FYI, for years I ran Windows 7 all the time between only the reboots mandated by Windows Updates. Usually that was a few weeks to a month. Now I run Windows 8.1 all the time between reboots mandated by Windows Updates. Ergo, no difference in stability. I have done a LOT of objective testing. With two identical systems, freshly setup and with the same tweaks for best performance (e.g., disable write cache buffer flushing, etc. etc.) Windows 7 is faster at some things and Windows 8 is faster at some things. Unfortunately, Windows 8.1 actually seems to have slowed down file system operations some. Enumerating files in a folder is decidedly slower - which means File Explorer doesn't come up as quickly, navigating through folders is slightly slower, etc. I have issues logged with Microsoft and the author of the RAID driver I use on this with no answer so far. As an experiment (especially if you have an SSD): Open File Explorer to the root of drive C: Go into the right (files) pane, and select all. Right click, and choose Properties. Time how long it takes to stop enumerating files. Now do it again, after the file system structure has been read into memory by the first run. With Windows 7 my system would enumerate 30,000 files per second the first time, and 50,000 files per second the second time (running from the cached data). With Windows 8.1 it's 10,000 and 17,000 respectively. That's no small degradation in performance! -Noel

That's a myth. There's no measurable difference in either in the general case. -Noel

Polferis, just donate 5 Euro or so and get a key, which will eliminate the watermark. How much is your time worth that you should work so hard to avoid making a small donation to the guy who wrote this excellent piece of code and deserves it? -Noel

That's my goal, yes, but it's easy enough with this tool to follow-up as a second step and remove Libraries as I mentioned. I just thought maybe Tihiy might think it was a good idea to separate the configuration of same. -Noel

Why? This works. -Noel

I've only just gotten around to testing this fine tool. I'm used to Windows 8's File Manager, such as it is, with some other tweaks to it (e.g., ClassicShell and Folder Options X). But - one thing - all those extra folders being shown under This PC are just an ongoing nuisance. As a lifetime computer geek I really just want to see the hard drives and the Network. So I wanted to see if it was possible to rid the system of all those extra "folders" WITHOUT bringing back the Libraries namespace root (I don't use Libraries at all). And whether OldNewExplorer would work amicably with my other tweaks. Woohoo! I am VERY pleased to see that while installing this fine tool and checking the [ ] Use libraries, hide folders from This PC then right-clicking in File Explorer's navigation pane I can turn all those extra "folders" off as well as turning Libraries off. Thank you, Tihiy! One suggestion: Since the appearance of Libraries is separately configurable from "hide folders from This PC", maybe you could consider presenting them in your UI as separate options. -Noel

Intika, I also prefer to keep my process count to a minimum too, BUT, if you take some time to understand better what AppInit_DLLs actually does (it adds DWMGlass.dll to every process) you'll realize running aerohost is a MUCH cleaner/better way to run Aero Glass. This is one of those cases where it's worth having one more process running. As far as I know the product doesn't distinguish between the Taskbar and other blurred elements. Thing is, it DID once, and that was removed (implying it's not a direction Big Muscle wants to go), so it seems unlikely your feature request will be granted. However, see what Big Muscle says on that. -Noel

Thanks. I thought it must be a pretty well-known problem by now, and I realize it takes time for fixes to trickle down. Adobe forums had problems with IE10 and IE11 for a long while too. -Noel

Version 1.2 works perfectly here. Performance seems the same as before (good). Nice job. After capturing the above screen I experimented a little bit with the ColorizationColorCaption setting, and it does work but not for all windows, but that is to be expected - I do NOT have a theme in place, just the themeatlas.png replacement. I still need to decide whether I prefer some of the caption fonts being light and some dark, or just leave them all dark with the glow background that I already have. Thank you for adding the registry entry. -Noel

Thanks for your replies, guys. I've gone ahead and repeated the info over in the bugs section. -Noel

Hi, First, thanks for the forum. I have been active only in the Windows 8 section. Since I did not know about this thread, and also since the problems I'm having are specific to Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 8, I posted some problem reports over there. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171031-problems-with-this-forum-using-ie11/ You likely already know about these things, but for the convenience of those here, I'll repeat what I posted at the above link: I've never managed to get a very good experience from this forum ever since moving to Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer version 11. I can read posts here just fine, but it's just difficult to edit... Problems: The first problem is basic, really - I can't paste anything. It's surprising how much I rely on cut/copy/paste. You really notice when you can't do it. Not being able to do so really hobbles the user experience on a technical forum. Pasting in things like registry data, script code, etc. or even moving blocks of text from one place to another while composing a message are painful. Another problem is that the quoting facility doesn't work. When I press the

Let's take the discussion of how poorly this forum works to a separate thread... I think it needs to be discussed, but probably not here. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171031-problems-with-this-forum-using-ie11/ -Noel

I've never managed to get a very good experience from this forum ever since moving to Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer version 11. I can read posts here just fine, but it's just difficult to edit... Problems: The first problem is basic, really - I can't paste anything. It's surprising how much I rely on cut/copy/paste. You really notice when you can't do it. Not being able to do so really hobbles the user experience on a technical forum. Pasting in things like registry data, script code, etc. or even moving blocks of code from one place to another while composing a message are painful. Another problem is that the quoting facility doesn't work. When I press the

Toldi, read back in this thread. Hint: Post 381. -Noel

Good thinking, thanks - but no, I've disabled it on Windows 8.1 as well. That's actually got its own page in my WIndows tuning book, which I follow when I set up a new system. Edit: That got me to think to check the DisableLastAcccess setting and that's set too as it should be (as it is by default in all recent operating systems). -Noel

I'm now looking now into whether file system fragmentation - which can still be an issue even with SSD, just less impactful - could be a contributing factor. Thing is, I did a "refresh" type installation, where I installed Windows 8.1 from DVD in a full, fresh manner, but did not reformat the boot volume. As a result I had a full, clean OS install but my other files on C: were all still in place (and Windows created a Windows.old folder). While fragmentation wasn't a factor before the OS change, it's possible the installation of WIndows 8.1 itself caused a good bit of fragmentation, and that could be affecting the ultimate speed. That said, early indications so far are it's not the answer. Windows 8.1 won't directly support defragmentation of the file system on an SSD, though it looks like it should be possible to override the "overly dumbed down" GUI by using the defrag.exe command-line tool, and/or possibly other tools such as Mark Russinovich's contig.exe tool. Of course I am mindful that there can be potential issues with defragging an SSD. More as I learn it. -Noel

Did you know that Tortoise SVN provides a configuration option that causes a good bit more of the dialogs to be set to use transparency? I normally just turn that off, so the dialogs are then like others that restrict transparency to the normal title bar and border. -Noel

Do the powercfg query command to query your power settings (I edited my post above to show the pertinent output section). powercfg /qh > powerconfig.txtIf it's 100% (hex 64) then your system won't park 'em. -Noel

Theme atlas replacement. SPecifically, get a theme atlas replacement file and use the CustomThemeAtlas (documented on Big Muscle's download site) to activate it. A link to the theme atlas I use is: http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/themeatlas.png There's a whole separate thread on theme atlas replacement files... http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170233-aero-glass-themeatlas/ -Noel

No, it's all set to high performance. But good thought! Keep the ideas flowing. Thanks! Power Setting GUID: 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 (Processor performance core parking min cores) GUID Alias: CPMINCORES Minimum Possible Setting: 0x00000000 Maximum Possible Setting: 0x00000064 Possible Settings increment: 0x00000001 Possible Settings units: % Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000064 Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000064It just occurred to me to ask the HighPoint people (who wrote the RAID controller driver). I'm going to send them a note asking whether what I'm seeing is typical. Seems like they ought to know. A check after today's fairly large number of WIndows Updates shows no difference. -Noel

No, it's not a degradation issue. I measured the performance difference just after the system was freshly installed. I haven't detected any degradation. I benchmark the system after every set of Windows updates or other software installations. I can't help but think that maybe at some point I discovered a file system tweak back in Windows 7 and applied it, which led to it being faster than its replacement. I usually make notes, but I could have neglected to do so. -Noel

All seems to be well! -Noel