[[OLD] Aero Glass for Win8.1+]

??? And how is it related to Aero Glass. You selected safe mode with command prompt, so your system booted into safe mode with command prompt. What's wrong with that?

Sorry, working as intended. I thought Safe Mode with Command Prompt would give a GUI, turns out I was wrong. Sorry

[[OLD] Aero Glass for Win8.1+]

Does anyone else have the issue where, in safe mode, the screen stays black? I think this might be a bug. It's not possible to boot into safe mode with a GUI. You need to force power off to turn the computer off (so boot into safe mode with command prompt to try this bug, do NOT use MSCONFIG or your computer will not boot)

Please provide steps how to reproduce. Although I don't use safe mode, I don't see any reason why it should be caused by Aero Glass. Or is Win8 safe mode different from previous versions that it loads scheduled tasks?

Charms Menu > Settings > Change PC Settings > Update and Recovery > Recovery > Restart Now (Under Advanced Startup)

Then your computer will enter a blue screen with options in it. Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart

Your computer should then reboot into another blue screen with a list of options. Press F6 to select option 6 (enable Safe Mode with Command Prompt, don't select other Safe Modes or you won't be able to turn your computer off). Your computer will reboot into a black screen with a CMD window. No other GUI elements should load.

This is what happened to me, not sure if it is limited to just me...

Also, to reboot from CMD once you've finished do shutdown /r

[[OLD] Aero Glass for Win8.1+]

Does anyone else have the issue where, in safe mode, the screen stays black? I think this might be a bug. It's not possible to boot into safe mode with a GUI. You need to force power off to turn the computer off (so boot into safe mode with command prompt to try this bug, do NOT use MSCONFIG or your computer will not boot)

[Aero Glass for Win8.1 RTM RC3]

bigmuscle, I got a DWM crash yesterday and PM'ed you the minidump file.

[Aero Glass for Win8.1 RTM RC3]

I've been using AeroGlass from the very first beta for Windows 8. Now I've moved to Windows 8.1 and still been using it, a really nice piece of software however, even with the most recent version I cannot understand how to get window titles glow effect and aero stripes as seen in all the screenshots here, I've got the transparency, yes, but nothing else I've downloaded some theme resources pngs, noelc's glow.bmp, put them all in the AeroGlass folder, even played with AeroConfigurator but to no avail. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance

To be able to use a custom glow.bmp, themeatlas.png and glow effects I believe you must have the dwm symbols installed.

[Aero Glass for Win8.1 RTM RC3]

Eagerly awaiting an x86 version. Thanks for your time bigmuscle

dear bigmuscle, I can live with the "beta" popup and the dwm window, but is it really necessary to have that damned watermark?

Agreed

[Aero Glass for Win8.1 RTM RC3]

I already tried examining this problem and the cause is that even if rendering area is e.g. [1920-2500], Direct2D context still returns the size of the first screen only (1920), so I must find a way to fix it :-)

Any chance of an x86 release for the next version bigmuscle? Would love to try aero glass on 8.1, your solution in 8 was great and I do miss it.

[Aero Glass for Win8 RC4]

Oh now Im truly f***ed... My windows 8 tablet starts with a black screen. Well, there goes the $700+ I spent on it

I feel sorry for you. What I do is I try it on a Virtual Machine first, then apply it to my main computer.

The first time I tried it without a VM I also got a black screen on x86. I had to use the System Restore function.

Now everything is perfect though, since if something goes wrong it happens to my VM which I can easily delete after my use with it is finished.

[Aero Glass for Win8 RC4]

I just installed fences by stardock and the program settings are integrated in Control Panel, I hope you will do the same.

If Bigmuscle does that though it might break in Windows 8.1