Wolfshadow

When I ran 7 on my laptop, if the default power routine of 'Balanced' was use, Aero was solid on battery, and glass on AC. When I made a custom or 'High Performance' routine, then glass worked on battery. To clarify a little, when I re-installed 7 it would work this way as 'Balanced' is a default. Some higher end performance laptops like Alienware would use the 'High Performance' routine from the factory. So it depends on what the machine was marketed for. When running Aero glass, there is a slight performance hit on the battery life, that is why a balanced routine is default from Microsoft. AeroGlass is designed to be as native with DWM as possible. DWM will run according to system wide settings. As 8/8.1 does away with Aero, it was not designed to have a 'battery' setting and in most cases will have to be created in the registry. This whole battery on and off thing has proliferated this forum from the beginning. Bigmuscle has the beta program to change some registry settings for those uncomfortable in doing it manually. At some point in time, I am sure he will integrate this into the install routine. He develops in his free time, not ours. Once again, it is all about READING the instructions on the pages of the programs web site. The guide page is there to address most of the tweaks available. For those who would like to have a file to merge into the registry easily, then copy and paste the following into notepad and save as "DisableOnBattery.reg". Double click and it will merge into the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "DisableGlassOnBattery"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "DisableGlassOnBattery"=dword:00000000 This is about as simple as you can get.

Version 1.0 = 1 Version 2.x = 2 Version 3.xx = 3 Version 95 = 4 Version 98 = 5 Millennium = 6 XP = 7 Vista = 8 Windows 7 = 9 Windows 8.X =10 This is to clarify the order of major releases. I have had them all. As far as common is concerned, most builds are under the hood, not the gui seen. Moves such as 8 bit to 16 bit etc. require huge recoding and introductions of base driver libraries. Windows NT and Windows 2000 are not included in the line up as they were intended for professional releases and not for the home user. It was not until the release of XP, that the NTFS file system format was merged into the public realm with it's full support of the 32-bit structure. Windows 98 SE was still 98 but a poor attempt from Microsoft to get people to buy the same version 98 with basically USB support.

It has always been 'my opinion' that the odd numbered versions have been best. 3.11, 98, XP, and 7. Always built on new bases. 8.1 is better than 8, but if MS is true to form, version 9 should be a winner. We will just have to see.

Try this one I made. Has rounded corners and enhanced button colors.

I believe the term should be postal code instead of zip code. Bigmuscle, you could set it up so that the postal code is the password originally, and when one signs in, they have to create a new password.

Don't forget that in win 8.1.1 you may have to create the DWM key in that hive. And then create the Dword in that key.

That is the default behavior of the context menu. The preview will have the transparency when you hover the mouse over it. I have had AeroGlass from day one, and this has always been the case for context menus.

If you were to go to this link and read the comments, you would know that he has asked for beta tested for help! And yes, it does cause problems if you see some of the feedback on using it.

My point is not that Win 8 people are avoiding upgrading to Win 8.1. It's that fewer and fewer additional Win 7 people are moving up to Win 8 (point anything). The product is a flop! -Noel Even Dell has been marketing lately that they still have deals on win7 machines, though it might be to reduce inventory.

Just a quick note, not all antivirus programs interfere with restore. That is why a note is not there. I agree with bigmuscle, restore does not really affect Aeroglass.

You can find drackulaboy here at DeviantArt. http://drakulaboy.deviantart.com/ He does some nice work.

Ohhh, Now it's getting interesting.....

I ran this little program to see what it does, and it inserts glaspawn.dll into the AeroGlass folder and hooks it into the DWM. There is no uninstall routine to get rid of it. I used restore to rid the dll, but had to uninstall AeroGlass and reinstall to get aeroglass to function without the popups and watermark even though I had the license key copied back into directory. I did a quick check in the registry, but did not find anything. Hope this helps a bit bigmuscle. It is unfortunate that they will consider this a challenge to reverse engineer any update to see if they can do it again. It is laughable that they did not do it natively and had to use another library file to supplant yours. Edit: I guess this shows just how popular your program is! (Can't wait to see what Noel will chime in with.... )

Tihiy, Some themes seem to enable a 'Default Start Theme'. Is there a way to enable it on other themes that do not?

Hi everyone, I took an atlas file and changed the min/max button to green and enhanced the vibrancy and saturation to make the buttons pop a bit more. I believe it is one of NoelC's themes.

elrombios, The sizes of items on the SIB appearance styles come from msstyle files and they would have to be changed to reflect a larger size button. You would need WindowsStyleBuilder to do this. Or a more complex way would be with a resource editor program.

Glad everyone likes it. If I can figure out what all the rest does, I'll continue to play around and see what I can come up with.

truexfan81, Try this one. You can also copy and past it to the C:\Aero glass folder location instead of using AeroGlassgui. But both should work. Edit: If you do that, don't forget to rename the file to win8cp.png.

Noel, I increased the vibrancy and saturation on the atlas file. See if you like it better. Colors pop a bit.

No. I disabled UAC (EnableLUA = 0) long ago and Aero Glass works fine here. Wolfshadow, I did not log out; I used BigMuscle's GUI tool and thought it would replace everything. Apparently it didn't. -Noel Ah, I just renamed the original Aerocp file to Aerocporg and then put my file in. I did not try the gui. May have something to do with one of it's other settings, like the inactive window setting.

I see mine on both. Did you sign out and back in? That is what I had to do.

Noel, Played with a theme atlas file and changed the min/max block to a green color. See what you think?

Noel, you crack me up. Seriously, we should have a thread just for the sh*ts and giggles of it all! We could call it "Start or not start--Talk Amongst Yourselves!" And funny, I just left a critique on DeviantArt about a style with all the taskbar itemw auto spread across the bottom. I mentioned the 'muscle memory' (sorry BigM) of having all the jumps to one side and how the mouse gravitates to them. Guess that is why I like the start menu...on the desktop where all my work gets done. My frequent programs are on the taskbar. Others are pinned to the menu.

A little clarification....lol. I meant the desktop and its flat look compared to previous versions. Not the start page. To some degree, you have to admit that the App buttons it initially has is kinda boring unless one keeps them active which uses resources and keeps you connected (which would be bad for metered conections). I just feel the whole desktop to start page then back to desktop is a bit of a tedium compared to using the taskbar and start menu IMO. If Microsoft would combine the start page on the desktop and using 'Fences' ability, then the start menu could possibly be of little use (of course if Microsoft does it, it will probably be a nightmare ).

It will be interesting to see what direction they go in with win9. Rumor has it that the flavors will be desktop and tablet/mobile versions. But you may know more on this than most. The popularity of touch screen is basically the reason for the metro style ugliness. But even there MS had to cave in for smaller scaling of the start icons and group naming. Windows is, has been, and always will be a beta work in progress. From what I see, as long as Microsoft wants to topple Apple and Android, it is only going to get worse and the users are going to suffer for it.