NoelC

New fields in the registry are used to govern the color and translucency. That's why a new GUI tool is needed. For now you have to set the registry values manually. I'm pretty sure the specific info is in this thread somewhere. Edit: Look in the original post. -Noel

SeNS, it's possible you haven't been reading carefully, but a release IS already made for 64 bit users. Big Muscle is still working on the 32 bit version, the installer, (hopefully) the GUI configuration application, the ModernFrame DLL, (hopefully) the UxThemeSignatureBypass DLLs... -Noel

The svchost.exe process is a wrapper application that can run many services. It would be best if you could isolate which one is chewing up memory. Just ending the svchost process is hitting the problem with too big a hammer. It would be best to reboot. The quite good tool Process Hacker 2 will allow you (on hovering the mouse) to see what services are actually running in each svchost process, and you can even stop them individually. -Noel

I'm sure that at Microsoft there is no love given to people who fix bugs. Create a fancy new feature in the brave new Metro/Modern/Universal/App world and you probably get made into a VP. -Noel

It's a debug build of ModernFrame.dll. The debug console is to be expected. -Noel

I just updated my Win 8.1 test virtual machine with all currently available updates to see if any new privacy intrusions are initiated. None showed up at the doorstep of my firewall right away. But it kind of needs to run longer to be sure. -Noel

If I boot my Win 10 test VM, and leave it completely alone for 5 minutes, SystemSettings.exe and ApplicationFrameHost.exe are automatically started. SystemSettings.exe goes immediately to Suspended state. With BigMuscle's ModernFrame-x64-Debug.dll in place it's obvious when it happens because a debug console window opens for ApplicationFrameHost.exe. Since mine is a system on which I don't normally expect to run an App of any kind, I sure as hell don't want a copy of SystemSettings.exe sitting in the background. I will be sweeping through the Task Scheduler looking for what it is that's starting SystemSettings.exe after 5 minutes of idle time, but if you have any ideas - or if you also see this happen on your Win 10 system - please let me know. What I don't know is whether most folks have enough Apps that this stuff always starts right up after login normally. I've already removed a scheduled run of provtool at 5 minutes after bootup, but that didn't stop the run of SystemSettings.exe. -Noel

No problem. That's this forum trying to be helpful. Just follow the link by clicking on the heading "Reply to Aero Glass ThemeAtlas". In that thread I provide a download link. -Noel

Sure! -Noel

OK, seems reasonable - thanks. Regarding porting bugfixes back, I've had 1.4.5.520 run fine on a heavily used Win 8.1 system for almost a full month without a reboot and with no problems, so I'm imagining the bugs must not be too bad. -Noel

By the way, Big Muscle, do you expect that 1.5.0.669 should work with Win 8.1? I just tried it in my Win 8.1 test VM, which was successfully running 1.4.5.520, and it just caused a multiple DWM restart loop, which stopped after a few iterations with no translucency showing or theme atlas loaded. Are you planning to recommend staying with 1.4.5.520 for Win 8.1 users? -Noel

Some weeks ago Big Muscle released a new build 14393-compatible ModernFrame.dll, which had more in its name: ModernFrame-x64-Debug.dll Are you running that one? If so, at some point you'd have had to rename it, as your AppInit_DLLs registry entry calls out "ModernFrame.dll". Here's the related software Big Muscle has put out that I know about. When I say "works", I mean I have tested it on Win 10 x64. A release candidate for Aero Glass for Win 8+ - 1.5.0.669 that works. A debug ModernFrame-x64-Debug.dll from August 24 that works. A very old Aero Glass GUI from December 2014 within which only a few of the functions work. UxThemeSignatureBypass64.dll from March 2015 that doesn't work (AFAIK) with build 14393. It may facilitate theme replacement okay, but without a theme replacement it messes up title text on ribbon-enabled windows. It appears to be reading the "title glow" from the wrong place in the theme atlas. Someone please correct me if I have any of this wrong. -Noel

It definitely works on 8 and 7. I don't know about Vista, but the thing is well-documented. Read up a bit and see. -Noel

Working quite nicely here. -Noel

VMware Labs has published a beta tool that identifies a whole lot of things that can be optimized in your running Windows system. And it's not just for Windows 10. Its focus is on optimizing VMs for production use but it works on hardware systems too. https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-os-optimization-tool I ran it and found that I've already hit most of the things it tweaks, but if nothing else an interesting source of ideas (and a validation that I'm not the only one who would like to distill Windows down to only the "to work" items. If you tell it to it will even remove all Apps, the Windows Store, Cortana, OneDrive, etc. Just running it to analyze your system is trivial, but if you cannot restore your system easily, I recommend reading each and every line VERY CAREFULLY and understanding what it does before giving it the go ahead to Optimize. Notably the tool advertises the ability to easily restore things it has optimized out, but I'd still be careful. -Noel

Makes me wonder... What didn't we pay attention to while they had us distracted with the Win 7 CPU long-time-looping-during-update mess. Certainly some folks' computers overheated. And others (well, 2 or 3) were pushed over the edge to change their OS to Win 10. What else did they pull off - which was more important to them - while we users and the press (e.g., AskWoody) were focused on trying to fix the update process. Were they trying to make us so happy by fixing the update process they specifically broke that they think we'll now gladly accept the upcoming cumulative, all-inclusive update packages for Win 7 and 8? -Noel

I predict jaclaz will say, "It seems to me like the usual FUD." -Noel

Methinks someone has the forum sorting posts based on local time, not UT. -Noel

I can't help but wonder about such antics, and whether they're trying to distract people from something fundamental. -Noel

Finally! ABSOLUTE PROOF that I am clairvoyant! I responded to jaclaz's and ralcool's posts BEFORE they were posted! d***, I'm good! -Noel

And now three posts about tablet posts disappearing overnight mysteriously appear. Will there be more? -Noel

I'm not sure I agree, though that is a possible interpretation. Given that OS X spikes up on the weekend, I hold to my original judgment. Upticks in usage of fun-n-games operating systems on the weekend, upticks in serious "to work" operating systems during the week. And the two are unfortunately not - though could be - the same. There is significant information to be taken away from those spikes. -Noel

I find the posting behavior and reordering now quite entertaining! -Noel

The site was offline for a day. Loss of data and downtime, plus the IP address changed from 67.228.40.30 to 146.0.236.91... Just what could be expected due to moving the site to a different server. -Noel

Of course there is something to worry about, though possibly not this month. Microsoft is switching Windows 8 and older updates to be CUMULATIVE (last I heard, in October). That's a lot to worry about. -Noel