NoelC Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Aero Glass for Win 8.1 is working fine after the July Windows Updates. -Noel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo76 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Thanks Junior, I didn't see this until now, I have my preferences set to receive email notification of a response. Or maybe for some reason your reply is not one that I would be notified of? Anyway, I downloaded the version for my 64 bit updated 8.1, opened the zipped folder, clicked on the "exe" file inside, I saw a window blink on my screen and nothing happened. Clearly I'm not a high level user, as only then did I go back to the website and see that I should have downloaded the "installer" version. Two questions:1) is there anything I need to undo as a result of having clicked that aeroglass.exe, and2) I read the other day (somewhere) of complications when using the installer version, but can't find what or where. Does anybody have experience with that download, with any warnings or advice? Thanks!Do a system restore to the time before you attempted to use it. Then follow the instructions from http://www.glass8.eu/ It easy to get it working. I been using it on Windows 8.1 64-bit for ages with no trouble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starseed Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Thanks to all of you! @junior, this is a pretty new computer, and I did a zillion thinks since the last restore point (one day I'll think to create restore points before doing experimental and/or stupid things) so I'm thinking of just removing the 4 leftover aerohost files I found using search.OFF TOPIC related story: I actually did decide to do the restore earlier, and was glad it failed once I realized all the work I would have lost, however I wanted to mention why it failed. I forgot to disable AVG, which got me to thinking: how many years will Windows refuse to add a note to the restore wizard to "turn off virus protection before conducting a restore". It goes through most of the restore before finally realizing it can't finish. This time I was glad however! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmuscle Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 Executing system restore is very odd idea when nothing is broken. Aero Glass itself does not add or modify anything in the system except the things that you do manually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfshadow Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I forgot to disable AVG, which got me to thinking: how many years will Windows refuse to add a note to the restore wizard to "turn off virus protection before conducting a restore". 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 (edited) Thanks to all of you! @junior, this is a pretty new computer, and I did a zillion thinks since the last restore point (one day I'll think to create restore points before doing experimental and/or stupid things) so I'm thinking of just removing the 4 leftover aerohost files I found using search.OFF TOPIC related story: I actually did decide to do the restore earlier, and was glad it failed once I realized all the work I would have lost, however I wanted to mention why it failed. I forgot to disable AVG, which got me to thinking: how many years will Windows refuse to add a note to the restore wizard to "turn off virus protection before conducting a restore". It goes through most of the restore before finally realizing it can't finish. This time I was glad however!I know this is not a system restore forum, but system restore does not affect documents and such. Also, I have never had a problem on Windows 8.1 using system restore with virus protection turned on. Of course, I use the built-in Windows Defender along with Malwarebytes Antimalware Premium and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit (free.) In any case you would not need system restore for Bigmuscle's Aeroglass because all you need to do is delete the folder! By-the-way, who is this Junior guy? Edited July 9, 2014 by dhjohns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quanzi1507 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 By-the-way, who is this Junior guy?Guess he mistakes your title (Junior - since you've only 69 posts so far) for your name 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 (edited) ...once I realized all the work I would have lost... May I suggest getting an external USB drive and instituting nightly VSS-integrated system image backups (doable by scheduling a wbadmin command). 1 - You'll have your system backed up in case something bad happens. 2 - You'll automatically have volume snapshots made every night, any one of which you can choose to restore data or your entire system from. -Noel Edit: Stupid forum changes b ) (without space between) to b) Edited July 9, 2014 by NoelC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 (edited) ...once I realized all the work I would have lost... May I suggest getting an external USB drive and instituting nightly VSS-integrated system image backups (doable by scheduling a wbadmin command). 1 - You'll have your system backed up in case something bad happens. 2 - You'll automatically have volume snapshots made every night, any one of which you can choose to restore data or your entire system from. -Noel Edit: Stupid forum changes b ) (without space between) to B) Is that why it is called wBADmin, in case something BAD happens? Edited July 9, 2014 by dhjohns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I like that. When something bad happens, minimize your chances of loss of data. wbadmin start backup -allCritical -vssFull -quiet -backupTarget:G:\ This takes a long time to copy all the data on your critical volumes the first time, then becomes incremental thereafter. The Volume Snapshot Subsystem, responsible for making shadow copies, is one of the things Microsoft got very right. At the moment I have 23 shadow copies of my 2 TB system volume on my 3 TB backup drive, any one of which can be used to do a bare metal restore or provide files for restoral through a 3rd party tool like Z-VSSCopy. Additionally, as a side effect of the backup, I have 9 nightly restore points on my system volume itself. Ask yourself, can you restore any and all data from any time up to 3 weeks ago? -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Edit: Stupid forum changes b ) (without space between) to B) In this case it is not - just for the record - specific to the current stupid board software, but it is a more generic issue with (still a "bad") implementation of "BBCODE":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCodespecifically not inserting them into square brackets (but a number of other board softwares use this "simplified approach" causing exactly this issue). On other news, that the IP Board software (and the chosen CKeditor component and their interactivity with BBCODE) cannot be defined if not as "terrible" or "awful" is by now re-known and confirmed by everyone:http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/382067-ipb-bbcode-and-concerns-about-its-future/let's hope that in the next 4.0 version the good invision guys will be able - as promised - to put together their act. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starseed Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I have so much egg on my face I'm thinking of frying it up for breakfast (late breakfast!). First, not realizing that we all have names in the blue bar (well hidden, eh?) and, well, the rest shows my lack of technical savvy. I found no folder for Aero Glass, just a couple files left over from my dumb attempt to install by clicking the .exe (aerohost) which I mistaken called, in an earlier post, aeroglass.exe. (the first egg). I'm still having a bit of trepidation as I have a special talent for making the simplest things go wrong when it comes to all things install/uninstall/restore/reinstall. Usually because I either mistakenly follow user group guidance, or just get "good try" guidance. Thanks again to y'all... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I have so much egg on my face I'm thinking of frying it up for breakfast (late breakfast!). First, not realizing that we all have names in the blue bar (well hidden, eh?) and, well, the rest shows my lack of technical savvy. I found no folder for Aero Glass, just a couple files left over from my dumb attempt to install by clicking the .exe (aerohost) which I mistaken called, in an earlier post, aeroglass.exe. (the first egg). I'm still having a bit of trepidation as I have a special talent for making the simplest things go wrong when it comes to all things install/uninstall/restore/reinstall. Usually because I either mistakenly follow user group guidance, or just get "good try" guidance. Thanks again to y'all...Just do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudalz Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 I'm getting a new convertible laptop (one that you can detach the monitor from, and use as a tablet). Can I install aeroglass on it? Would it work while the machine works as a laptop? (When used as a tablet, obviously it won't work as it will be using the metro interface.) Would there be any issues when detaching or reataching the screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveo76 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I'm getting a new convertible laptop (one that you can detach the monitor from, and use as a tablet). Can I install aeroglass on it? Would it work while the machine works as a laptop? (When used as a tablet, obviously it won't work as it will be using the metro interface.) Would there be any issues when detaching or reataching the screen?It will still work. You have to at first configure aeroglass to run on battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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