Aero Glass - Stunning!

[Joe727]

No doubt that Aero Glass is stunning. I have an nVidia BFG 6800 OC video
card, and the clarity and vibrancy in Vista compared to XP makes it seem
like I have two different monitors. There's that much noticeable
difference.

The "special effects" in Aero also are quite interesting. The neon blue
clock is terrific.

Joe

 

[Guest]

http://www.tweakvista.com/Article38975.aspx

Posted 5/14/2006 by Steve Sinchak
Would you like to add a shortcut to your desktop or quick launch bar that
launches the new Flip 3D tab replacement?

1. Right click on your desktop and select New and then Shortcut.

2. Copy and paste RunDll32 DwmApi #105 into the location box and hit Next.

3. Enter in a name for your shortcut and hit Finish.

4. Copy/Cut and Paste your new shortcut where ever you want.

troma adds:
Help & Support says.......
"To use Windows Flip 3D
Press CTRL+Windows logo key +TAB, and then use the mouse wheel to scroll
through the stack of windows one-by-one. Double-click a window to maximize
it."
this is kinda cool

 

[Joe727]

Thanks for that tip - very cool.

Joe

http://www.tweakvista.com/Article38975.aspx

Posted 5/14/2006 by Steve Sinchak
Would you like to add a shortcut to your desktop or quick launch bar that
launches the new Flip 3D tab replacement?

1. Right click on your desktop and select New and then Shortcut.

2. Copy and paste RunDll32 DwmApi #105 into the location box and hit Next.

3. Enter in a name for your shortcut and hit Finish.

4. Copy/Cut and Paste your new shortcut where ever you want.

troma adds:
Help & Support says.......
"To use Windows Flip 3D
Press CTRL+Windows logo key +TAB, and then use the mouse wheel to scroll
through the stack of windows one-by-one. Double-click a window to maximize
it."
this is kinda cool

 

[Guest]

This might sound stupid....but how do you actually turn the aero glass
feature on? I have had a good look around control panel and display settings
but cant seem to find anything. searching in the help found naff all as well.
Should it be on automatically?

 

[Guest]

Right- Click on your desktop , go down to " Personlize", A Window will pop
tht says ersonalize apperence and Sound Effects .. Find the Visual
Apperence tab and set it to" Windows Vista Aero".

 

[Guest]

Hey Rob,
I'm having trouble getting the glass to show up to. When i go to select the
Windows VIsta Aero scheme it's not even listed. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Yer I just tried what was suggested and its not listed on mine either, I am
using vmware workstation if that makes a difference. I didnt think it would
as i thought it just used the same graphics card you have in your real PC
(radeon 9550 256MB) so i thought it should have no trouble.

 

[Guest]

OK . I replyed but it did'nt show " I hope this is'nt a double post "
Anyhow when I first tried to get Aero to work It did'nt show either , What I
did was just reboot my computer and it showed up on the Visual Appearance
then. At first all i saw was Vista (Basic) for the Visual Appearance also.
P.S. Make sure you Have the video card drivers installed and that your Video
adapter supports Aero.

 

[Joe727]

Did you download and install ATi's Vista drivers?

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712

Joe

 

[Guest]

yup. setup said it was unable to find any ATI products, which is what brings
me to suspect that running it on vmware is causing the issue as it looks like
its not using my real graphics card. Anyone know of any way to tell vmware to
use it? im new to it. Just looked and its not listed in device manager.

 

[Joe727]

IC - can't help you since I am not using vmware. Why not just create a
separate partition? Runs fine on a logical partition.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/jbmsbink/VistaInstall.jpg


Joe

 

[Guest]

I tried that first, using partition magic to create a new partition on one of
my drives....it ended up making that drive say "corrupt file system" when i
tried to access anything on it. After running chkdsk /F it was sorted but I
then decided i would go for virtual pc/vmware as it seems a bit safer

 

[Joe727]

If you notice in the screenshot, the C partition is called WINDFALT. Right
now it's about 700 MB.

The only things on it are what 98SE, XP Pro, and Vista dump there such as
Boot, Command, ntldr, etc. It happens to be FAT32 because I still have 98SE
installed. If 98SE were not installed, it would be formatted as NTFS.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/jbmsbink/VistaInstall.jpg

Some other programs dump installation text logs there, but I delete them.

98SE is on E partition, XP Pro on F Partition, and Vista on N.

Did you create a separate small C partition like I did, or do you have an
Operating System installed on your C partition?

Joe