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NoelC, I have an AMD Radeon HD6970 card and have no issues with DWM shutting down but I never use the hibernate or sleep functions. But your issue sounds like similar to what i experienced when the graphics driver crash, I played around with some overclocking and it could put DWM in a werid state but it never "restarted".

It does, set it to something like 70.

I've had the windows go all wonky on me, seems like a "crash" but it never restarts dwm. All the windows/programs get invisible. If i manage to find the dwm.exe window by alt-tabbing then i can close it and everything goes back to normal. It's does not happen very often and I can't really reproduce it unfortunately but seems to happen when 3D is involved Direct3D/OpenGL.

I know what you mean, but this doen't happen everytime. As for the sceenshot, If you try to see to the border of the live thumbnail (inside the glass region), you can see a line with a little shadow surrounding the thumbnail. Do you see it now? I managed to reproduce it. Just hover over the active programs in the taskbar a few times, a weird shadow effect will appear from time to time on the program "thumbnail previews". EDIT, and no, a printscreen won't capture it.

Yeah, thanks. I misunderstood the Intensity setting, I actually tried a higher value but not high enough. I have it at 70 now and now I see it.

When is the glass reflection supposed to show? This doesn't work, am I missing something? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "BypassThemeSignature"=dword:00000001 "ColorizationGlassReflectionIntensity"=dword:00000001 "EnableLogging"=dword:00000000 "CustomThemeAtlas"="c:\\\\windows\\\\aeroglass\\\\themes\\\\win8rp.png" "CustomThemeReflection"="c:\\\\windows\\\\aeroglass\\\\themes\\\\glassreflection1.png"

It's in the debug.log

FYI, Battlefield 4 crashed on me making all windows invisible, all i saw was a grey border around them, Luckily I managed to access the DWM.exe window and close it so DWM restarted, then all was OK again. Not sure if there's anything to do about this in the future but I thought it was worth mentioning. EDIT: Same thing happend when I updated my Radeon drivers, might be a driver issue, didn't happen the first time I updated.

I think I found a bug. I placed the program in a different folder than c:\aeroglass and it would not show my Machine ID in the debug.log file (it contained other debug info tho'). I had to move the files to c:\aeroglass for it to show my Machine ID. Spent 25 mins trying to find out what was wrong. Other than that, thanks for a great hack that makes Windows 8/8.1 more enjoyable, also thanks for fixing the dual screen bug!