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As valid as BM's reasons are to avoid cluttering this thread it also makes no sense to not create a new thread solely for discussion and speculation, at least from as far as I can gather. It could be kept until BM decides enough is enough regardless of whether or not he creates a new version for the Creator's update simply to have a place for things he deems as filler/off-topic. Just a thought to help keep things on topic.
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11 hours ago, xemnes said:
aero glass can date way back to vistas alpha, longhorn 4074 i believe is the first iteration of aero glass. other than that, not sure who came up with it.
start8 by stardock is the only start menu app that can apply the reflection image to the taskbar i think but the start8 is pretty lackluster compared to others like startisback
As far as I can remember, I believe startisback and classic shell also have tools to apply textures to the taskbar, however lackluster it may be for all of these tools; though everyone seems to prefer one over the other when it comes to applying the texture (personally I use classic shell to apply the texture though I've come to prefer the taskbar without it, even in my win7 VM).
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You seem to have installed OldNewExplorer based on some of the files present in your screenshot, if you would like to keep using the ribbon while having ONE active you have to disable the option "use command bar instead of ribbon;" however doing so will remove the additional glass effect on the navigation bar. Hope this helps
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On 10/11/2016 at 6:09 AM, PeterSvP said:
Looks like AeroGlass GUI Don't work with the latest 1.5 Glass8 version. Changing the colors does not do anything for me since then.
5 hours ago, MagicBullet said:Aero Glass GUI "Glass Colors" tab such as color balance and opacity is not functioning with Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607. Any fix incoming?
Use the new version using the options on the "accent" tab
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173165-aero-glass-gui/?do=findComment&comment=1130153
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9 hours ago, RaphaelGreen said:
As others have mentioned already, this is the debug console from BM's debug version of aeroglass. To elaborate on what BM said by there's nothing to fix, this is normal functionality for that dll and it causes no problems with your computer aside from an extra window opening up. As a work around I've found that you can technically close it without closing your app(s) by opening the task manager and ending the conhost.exe process after the window appears; you can open your apps afterwards and it shouldn't pop up again (confirmed for the system settings app though not for anything else).
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4 hours ago, fricku said:
That works if you already have Aeroglass installed.
I downloaded the files as you did and installed them in a new folder and ran the old aeroglass schedule.bat to get it going, which worked to some extent. At least aerohost is running. Transparency is all wrong at the moment.
As far as I know, what the installer does is technically the same thing schedule.bat does, create a task to hook the dwm and aerohost processes albeit rather simplistically in the case of the bat file (installer also allowing the option of protecting the task and adding modernframe.dll). As for transparency, that may have to do with the registry settings for AeroGlass as well as whatever theme atlas you had previously. That being said I am sorry for your loss and downgrade to windows 10, I myself just finished reinstalling the thing after it decided it wouldn't boot anymore.
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23 minutes ago, fricku said:
I'm running build 10586.589 64 bit and when I try to run the installer, "setup-w8_1-1_4_6.exe", I get the Error: This program does not support the version of Windows your computer is running.
I had this same problem, what worked for me was downloading the files (http://glass8.eu/files/win81_x64_1.4.6.7z) and replacing them rather than using the installer.
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All you can do for the time being is wait until the symbol files for the updated Win10 to be uploaded to micro$oft's servers
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The files have been uploaded to the servers (though in my case not every PC was able to download them); here are the files if you still need them
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1 hour ago, JoshuaVL1988 said:
Ok for some odd reason that specific .rar file keeps freezing 7zip. It doesn't open properly and I keep having to use the taskmanager to end it. No idea why it's doing that...
Try this, its all the files I had in the rar file but not compressed this time
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2 hours ago, JoshuaVL1988 said:
Anyone know where the .png files for the clsharp .layout files are? I got the clsharp.png.layout, clsharp_v2.png.layout, clsharp_v2_flat.png.layout, and clsharp_v4.2.png.layout files but apparently i failed to notice that the actual .png files for them weren't included in the .zip file. Can someone please link the .png files? [RS1 compatable versions, plz]
I don't know if the original creator of clsharp ever updated them to work with newer builds however if you have the layout files modified to work with RS1 then the png files should work regardless. I've attached the png and layout files for you here, they should be compatible with RS1 however I did not include clsharp_v4.4 as it is not compatible with RS1; unfortunately as I am not the original creator I don't know how 4.4 works to get it working with RS1.
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1 hour ago, JorgeA said:
FWIW, I'm running Classic Shell version 4.2.5 on the Win10 AU.
--JorgeA
Why classic shell 4.2.5 and not 4.3.0?
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3 hours ago, Mostly Harmless said:
is it normal that dwm.exe uses 14-15% cpu? I guess not. Never noticed before.
Same as Joppy, I see 0% cpu usage for dwm.exe and it uses about 33-37 MB of RAM for myself. Oddly enough explorer.exe uses up more of my RAM at 72-80 MB (and around 3% cpu) despite not utilizing it.
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@JorgeA I've noticed that you can turn off the debug windows by closing the consolehost process in the task manager, not sure if it'll work though since I've really only tested this on the one pc I've "upgraded" to the anniversary build.
3 hours ago, NoelC said:Interestingly, if I do nothing after startup/logon, in about 5 minutes the ModernFrame debug window opens all by itself with the title C:\WINDOWS\system32\ApplicationFrameHost.exe, implying Windows starts up the App environment even though no one asks for it (or wants it). Probably there's something in the system that, if its network probing parts aren't cut off, would try to download ads.
@NoelC that's interesting actually, have you been able to locate what exactly starts up the app environment after logging in? I've tried to get this to occur since reading about it but to be honest I've been unable to replicate this issue. Perhaps in this case no news is good news?
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What do the services even do or provide? Are the services worth doing that amount of work to fix micro$oft's screw up? (As a side note I disabled those services and so far I haven't run into any problems)
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13 hours ago, carlitosoo555 said:
other theme atlas compatible with the anniversary update, like clsharp?.
Currently you'd have to modify the layout files yourself using BigMuscle's win8rp or NoelC's RoundedCorners layout if you want other themes.
As you can see clsharp is working after modifying the files for it. The layouts I'm using for clsharp should be attached if anyone wants to use them.
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2 hours ago, NoelC said:
Actually I do see a glitch...
Aero Glass doesn't seem to want to auto start on bootup/logon.
The Task Scheduler entry is in there, but apparently starting it before logon just isn't working. No dialog is popped-up. If I stop the Aerohost entry and start it again after logon, the Aero Glass effects start.
When this happens, only the first 3 entries show up in the debug.log...
[2016-08-15 10:28:12][0x5FC:0x600] Installing DWM hook...
[2016-08-15 10:28:12][0x5FC:0x600] User: SYSTEM
[2016-08-15 10:28:12][0x5FC:0x600] Module: C:\AeroGlass\DWMGlass.dllJust as a guess I'm thinking that the DWM debug window just can't open because no one is logged on.
I tried setting up the Task Scheduler entry as "Configure for: Windows Vista" and "Windows 7" without apparent effect.
Edit: Changing the Task Scheduler entry to run at the Logon of any user works around the problem, except that the colors are not being read correctly from the user-specific settings area.
However: UxThemeSignatureBypass doesn't seem to dredge up the proper settings for the title text background given that I have to start Aero Glass from the scheduler at login time.... Still working that out...
Edit 2: The old ModernFrame.dll is non-functional, at least with the Settings App, which is the only one I run.
Edit 3: Setting the AeroHost task to start up 10 seconds delayed seems to work around the problem with the failure to start. But the settings seem to not be loaded from the user area. I'm getting a bright blue and nearly opaque border, but after I run the AeroGlassGUI it corrects itself. Maybe this is the same problem MrGrim is having? I'll try to work around this problem by making the settings in the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM area]. I'm off to experiment with that.
-Noel
I had the same problem so I followed your configuration and met with the same problem of colors and other settings not being read correctly; however, unlike you, using AeroGlassGUI did not correct the problem. My workaround that seems to be working at the moment is to configure the Task Scheduler entry to run at the Logon of your user account rather than any user.
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Were you able to get anything else to work? So far I've only been able to get transparency and only that; nothing else works after a reboot.
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From the download page
Quote!!! DO NOT USE WIN8.1 INSTALLER FOR THIS DEBUG VERSION !!!
!!! DO NOT INJECT DWMGLASS.DLL VIA OLD APPINIT_DLLS REGISTRY KEY !!!
In other words the old method is not working and therefore shouldn't be used. You can still start it manually if you go into the task scheduler and tell it to run though.
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On 8/11/2016 at 0:35 PM, cc333 said:
I've given up. After Windows Defender decided to spontaneously demolish some of my files (coincidentally, the ones which were meant to make Windows 10 more sane)
12 hours ago, Techie007 said:That's nothing new. I've had Windows Defender/SmartScreen attack Classic Shell, IrfanView and Mozilla Firefox in the past, totally blocking installation (and for Firefox, the download as well). At least they were blocked and not removed. But it was very difficult for even a person as knowledgeable as myself to get past. I actually had to copy the installer over from another machine in the case of Firefox. Thankfully it hasn't happened since, but it makes me wary of what Microsoft is capable of. This is nothing like Norton, where with a quick right-click of its tray icon, I can suspend "protection" so that blocked software can operate and install, and then create whitelist rules so that protection can be re-enabled.
#WhenTheAntivirusBecomesTheVirus
This is certainly weird; even with all the upgrading and reinstalling of Win10 that I've done in the past year that's never happened to me. Maybe it has to do with the location of the files? I personally keep the files in a separate partition and disable defender to use a different antivirus (or none depending on what I'm using the system for) as soon as the system does its first boot.
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35 minutes ago, klasik said:
What are you guys think about this project?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/67952532/customatic-make-windows-10-look-and-work-the-way-y
Seems like they currently doing the same work as BigMuscle do?
It seems to me as though it is combining aspects of various programs (eg. AeroGlass+Classic Shell+Startisback+...) to create that program. I'd consider using it when its fully released but it might cause a lot of problems being that it would be broken almost constantly by Microsoft; would be interesting to see them try to maintain it though.
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10 hours ago, JoshuaVL1988 said:
Any info on the progress for Windows 10 RS1 compatibility in AeroGlass?
Unless BM has made mention of it elsewhere all we can do for now is wait patiently for BM to work his magic or revert to Windows 10 (ver.10586), 8.1, or 7 to get the glass effect/transparency back completely.
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11 hours ago, Dreamweaver01 said:
No longer pinned, I guess we're getting something new
Time to wait and see what goodies BM brings out
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It's up
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16 hours ago, NoelC said:
You do it - WE do it - because of a desire to know. Because of a desire to make decisions based on fact, not hype.
It's a rare trait.
Never change!
-Noel
I think you mean it's a (unfortunately) dying trait.
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Ironically I have a similar bug whenever I plug in a flash drive however, rather than displaying the size incorrectly a dialog appears saying that I cannot delete the file despite it behaving as though it did; and yes there is no program using the files... Win10 at its finest