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dAKirby309 — Get Aero Glass for Windows 8 (Fully Native)
Published: 2014-02-03 01:22:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 11644; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 389
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It's finally here! I am showing off the newly perfected Windows 7/Vista-styled Aero blur effect for Windows 8/8.1! A developer that goes by the name "BigMuscle" has been working on this for months, and with all the trial and error put in, here is the result! And the results are fantastic!
Development Thread/Q&A: www.msfn.org/board/topic/17085…
Download here: www.glass8.eu/
Enjoy your computer's new look! Have fun!
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Microsoft should incorporate this into windows 10 in some way as an option. I know little people who like it without the transparency. And it does look good with the flatness
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Fully agreed! There are I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Windows users who like the transparent look, including me! It really does flow really nicely with the flat, modern style MS went for in Windows 8. The main reason they removed Aero in Windows 8 was to make Win8 available to a much wider range of computers than 7, which required a decent graphics card in order to run to its full extent.
They NEED to make it an option in Windows 10 as it will be a welcome addition for many, and there are millions of PC's that can run Aero very well. While some don't want it, many do! So being an option would be great!
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嗯，我不知道是什么问题。
寻找在页面右上角“回复此话题”。
顺便说一句，希望帮助你理解。很抱歉，如果这是不好的中国
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How do you hide the CMD app from the means of switching to it? Aka. Alt+Tab and Task Manager...
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Umm.. I'm not sure what you're asking here, sorry.
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People have been able to hide away the DWM window from the taskbar in some screenshots...
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WARNING
Aero Glass by Big Muscle may "corrupt" memory and potentially lead to a BSOD system failure. This is usually when using intense applications that use alpha channels, so do NOT run this with Photoshop, Paint.NET, GIMP, and other similar programs unless you are prepared for crashes and problems.
Back up your work and consider creating a system restore point before installing and using Aero Glass.
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Good suggestion. That is what I've done. But I've had no need for it! It's very stable.
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This third party DOES corrupt memory, I suggest removing it
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its good .....but in my case the effect stayed for a short period of time and then *POOF!* the effect is gone
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It worked for me for about a week and then it randomly stopped working for a bit... then it started back up again a while later... perhaps try re-installing, see if that fixes it. :/
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This has come a long way since the 1st alpha build Big Muscle released over a year ago. All the optimizations put into this project after months of beta testing (both Windows 8 and 8.1 builds), I recommend it for anyone to use just to have that legacy feel in place.
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Thanks, good luck with it!
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It works fine. Only the donation splahscreen and the watermark are annoying. But i understand that the developer will earn a little money for his work. Looks like a advanced version of BorderSkin.
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Yea, the donations window is pretty annoying, popping up at random times... the watermark doesn't bother me too bad though, at least you can only see it when on the desktop. But either way, he did a great job on this thing and deserves some donations! So it's all good.
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it works well and looks pretty nice. thanks a lot!
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Tried it, works really good, but I've noticed a considerable increase of DWM's memory usage. In the end, I decided that bloating up my system for the sake of aesthetics makes little sense.
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Hmmm, strange. For me, the resource usage is very minimal, only like 5-7 MB being used up, which is almost nothing... perhaps something is interfering with the Aero effect? Maybe try and talk to the developer about that. :/
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It's great that the version for 8.1 has finally hit RTM so to speak. I had used his application for a while with Windows 8. I donated so I could get a key and get rid of the watermark, but I've ran into an issue claiming a key--awaiting a response from Big Muscle.
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Great! 
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yeah i like it and just donated to him for a liscence.key file.
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after the reboot with the licence key, all of the windows have a very much windows 7 look and feel. well worth the 3euro / $4.15 usd.
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Glad to hear!
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it says on the purchase key page something about 2 liscences, also i noted that the windows went from a win 8 "flat aero" for un-liscensed to the windows 7 "styled ?" look. i will post a screencap for you to see. also, the debug.txt file said that when it found the liscence key it downloaded a "symbols" debug file from Ms's site, i think this is the Aero Blur that you see in 7 and not in 8.
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