Make vista non aero look like vista aero

[Panarchy]

How do I do this?

I have been trying to do this for a while now, please help!

I am using Vista Home Premium... the basic theme suck

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Windowblinds will give you all you want. That is about the only way...

Also look up glass2k <-- Google is your friend.

[Flexipoint]

And TopDesk

[Panarchy]

I already have things that emulate the other things, but WindowsBlinds doesn't have any themes that make it look like aero...

[eggie]

I think there is also a registry hack that you can use in order to force aero to run, you may however need to search the forums to find the hack that you want.

[fizban2]

registry hack doesn't work anymore, if you want aero on, you will need to have a video card that can handle aero, no way to make it emulated, there are apps out there that can give you a glass appereance but most seem to work only on XP.

[eggie]

How come it won't work anymore has MS disabled it somehow?

[war59312]

Was a feature, and it was removed, was meant for testing only by private and TAP beta testers.

Edited April 27, 2007 by war59312

[cluberti]

How come it won't work anymore has MS disabled it somehow?

It was only meant for developers and testers to run Aero on non-compliant hardware for testing. Generally, if Aero won't enable on your card, it's because it's GPU or RAM just isn't up to the challenge of hosting DWM (and I do mean challenge). Anyone who ran forced Aero on Beta and RC builds with old video cards can probably attest to this.