Aero Glass - Is it Usefull?

[Colin Barnhorst]

Aero is the default theme. Like Luna on XP. Glass is the special effects,
like transparency. You can have Aero on a Kenmore washing machine but you
need a "WDDM compliant card and driver" to get Glass.

 

[jonah]

Nothing happens.......

You are always talking about Aero, about Glass and about Aero Glass.
What are these things?

Its just pretty 3d effect windows with glowing colours and the "glass
bit" is I assume the transparency allowing you to see through the top
window to whats underneath. There is also a function to twist the
windows in 3D.

Its all for looks not function, very impressive but is of no real
value. If your hardware is not up to it you will only get the normal
interface which is little different from XP.

Don't worry about it you are not missing anything massively important,
figuring out how to make Vista do your bidding is the important bit
and reporting bugs to MSFT.



Jonah

 

[Chad Harris]

Good point Jonah. Well said. If it hadn't been so late at the meeting I
went to the other night, I would have had a good time with the MSFT turkey
they sent from Redmond (way below the usual engineers that speak) and his
bullshit.

MSFT will do anything it can to stifle talk that brings up the screwing of
their OEM named partner customers.

The test you will never get a softie to take for money or anything of value
is you against the Softie trying to fix a blue screen no boot--you have the
MSFT media and the softie has the crap they and the OEMs screw their
customers with.

MSFT has a slide circulating right now on Vista that states "Industry
Forecasts" 475 million PCs first 24 months; Upgradable Installs 200 million
PCs meaning the OEM preinstalled boxes whose users get totally screwed
unless their smart enough to tell the OEM named partner "Give me a retail
DVD" or I won't buy from you or else to buy from an Independent System
Builder.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

I rarely talk about Aero Glass. It's an eye candy marketing tool that is
getting way too much hype which has nothing to do with skill or software
reliability--it's basically a function of your walking into a store or going
on line and buying a video card adequate to show it.
You can google it and get a slew of sites that discuss and feature it.

MSFT would do much better taking their Aero Glass developers and putting
that man power into getting many more features stable like System File
Checker given that the Redmond softies are paying/hiring developers $3-4000
per day to debug Vista--something you won't see a lot about on Connect.

CH

 

[José]

If you find the Aero Glass user interface annoying, orif it is slow on your
computer configuration, simply press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to turn it off. Press
this key combination again to re-enable it.

Nothing happens.......

You are always talking about Aero, about Glass and about Aero Glass.
What are these things?

 

[rockwell]

Just installed Vista, no issues. But the Aero Glass look, I just don't see
any value.
Tell me what advantage there is to Aero?

None. It uselessly slows down your machine.
It's just eye candy.

 

[rockwell]

I totally agree with this Chad, <snip>

Jonah

Definately agreed, couldn't have said it better myself. Glad to see not
everyone is a MicroSheep!

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I am torn on this one, its useful in its beauty, but it does not serve a
direct purporse in terms of the user interface. There are some aspects that
users may find productive such as Taskbar thumbnails, Flip, Flip 3D, also,
its puts more focus on the content of a window. One thing I never liked
about XP was all the blue, even while you were typing a document or reading
something, the blue window frame was always in the corner of your eye. AERO
from my experience has reduced that. Also, I need to a purpose for my video
card, I don't do gaming, so AERO is putting it to good use.

 

[José]

Aero is the default theme. Like Luna on XP. Glass is the special effects,
like transparency.

I'm unfamiliar with Luna too, although I've been working with XP from
the first date of issue.

Anyhow, I see no transparency, the task bar is opaque, and nothing
happens when I hit Ctrl Shift F9

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

What you are looking for then is "(Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)" following
the name of your video adaptor. Look at the upper middle of the Welcome
Center or in the Device Manager (expand the Display Adaptors entry). If you
do not see the text then your video adaptor or its driver (or both) do not
support Glass. There are many other ways to see if Glass is on, but if you
close all programs and still do not see transparency in the Task Bar you
most likely aren't going to get Glass.

 

[John Barnes]

You keep disappearing and appearing like a magic rabbit. Welcome back
again. Just curious about Aero. Usually when certain programs run Aero
disappears entirely. Other programs it stays on IE windows, but the task
bar goes solid. Is there any rationality to this behaviour?

 

[Stephan Schaem]

I am torn on this one, its useful in its beauty, but it does not serve a
direct purporse in terms of the user interface. There are some aspects that
users may find productive such as Taskbar thumbnails, Flip, Flip 3D, also,
its puts more focus on the content of a window. One thing I never liked
about XP was all the blue, even while you were typing a document or reading
something, the blue window frame was always in the corner of your eye. AERO
from my experience has reduced that. Also, I need to a purpose for my video
card, I don't do gaming, so AERO is putting it to good use.

Technicaly you can build an explorer/window system that look 1:1 like Areo,
perform the same,
and dont need a graphic card older then one in the late 1990s...

But microsoft need to feed decades of legacy code and cant do that without
major cpu and GPU power

Stephan

 

[Chad Harris]

Jose I read all your posts that proclaim how much you aren't familiar with
how many things. I have an Rx: Google them. You can search Aero Glass here
and learn whatever key combos you need to invoke Aero Glass and you can
search it on the web and find whole sites dedicated to it and all the
spinoffs and projected spinoffs. MSFT loves to interest users in
superficial items that sell boxes and require very little user knowledge and
add zero to the actual functionality of the OS, so you can be sure a ton
will be written about Aero Glass.

Fixing System File Checker, well that's too much like a real Windows problem
for Redmond to be bothered with. Besides Sinofsky had to pull 300 engineers
because the European Union has their hands deep into his pocket after VP
General Counsel Brad Smith told them to go screw themselves.

CH