in the screenshots of vista beta 1, the windows were transparent.

I read tht you might have to install that stuff yourself and its on the cd in support/winfx and i did all that and i still dont see how anything can become transparent or anything.

Also it seems that all the icons are stuck on "large mode" i've tried unchecking that and it still has them as huge icons.

did you say CD? first off it should be a DVD.....

and my settings work fine after some basic tweaking and a restart.

yeah i meant dvd. Where do you go to mess with those settings? I cant find them anywhere. Not in the display, control panel. NO WHERE.

you need LDDM drivers to have transparency i think. i had to switch to xp drivers for my video card so i can play games and i lost the transparency

well here is this

http://www.mjone.com/screenie.jpg

i got shadows and translucent start menu now. haha I got that with simple program i had for XP called YZshadow. if your like me and Do not have agood graphics card to have the 3d effects, You might get that a try.

Kinda sucks not to have shadows under windows. Even xp had shadows i beleive.

it hardly uses any recources

http://www.osx-e.com/downloads/utilities/yzshadow.html

Does anyone know of a program to get the window borders and things translucent? hehe its funny how im on vista and i have to use programs that simulate vista's look

Edited October 19, 200619 yr by muggerfugger

Try this instead

These might also help

ATI Display Drivers

nVidia Display Drivers

i wonder if anyone knows how to make that awesome gui like the mac does at the top like in the pic that muggerfugger posted.

i wonder if anyone knows how to make that awesome gui like the mac does at the top like in the pic that muggerfugger posted.

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That's just a docking program. It's probably either ObjectDock or YzDock.

If you do not have a video card that can do DX9 effects in hardware you will not see glass effects.

If your DX9 video card does not have an out of the box LDDM driver you will not see glass effects.

NV6xxx and 7xxx cards do not come with an out of the box LDDM driver even though they can render DX9 effects.

You can download the Nvidia LDDM driver directly from Nvidia.

If you do not have a DX9 card and/or LDDM drivers you will not see glass, even with TweakVista. The option to enable glass on unsupported cards was for build 5048 in which they tried to constrain to a 9800 Pro or Nv 5600 or something.