Vista: Enable or Disable Aero Glass Transparency Effect

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Vista is sexy because of its new aero glass transparency effects. Here is how to enable and disable this new eye candy.

Eye Candy! The new transparency (or glass effect) in vista is amazing.

To Enable or disable this effect:

1. Right-Click on a blank area of desktop
2. Select Personalize from the context menu
3. Click Window Color and Appearance Option

4. Here you can check if you want to Enable Transparency or not.
5. You can also disable the whole aero glass theme from here. Just click the Open classic appearance properties for more color options link.
6. Select a non-Aero theme and click OK.

These effects require pretty heavy video card specs… If you can’t get it working, it might be time to upgrade your system.

Examples and screenshots of these effects can be seen here.

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11 Comments -

1. Alan said on October 18, 2008

   how can i download vista theme

2. genious said on December 20, 2008

   thanks, i went back to windows classic look. system is very fast now.

   thanks for your help.

3. Diane Rustand said on December 23, 2008

   I was unable to disable the Eye Candy in my Microsoft Vista program.

4. Dan said on May 7, 2009

   =o
   I Have Vista Lite.
   I Cant put.

5. Tommy said on June 20, 2009

   Thanks working very nice post

6. jung said on June 24, 2009

   Does powerword 2007 pro work with Vista 64 bit, Have any one installed this?
   if so, email jungm565@comcast.net

7. idk said on July 4, 2009

   I dont see Transparency in Window Color and Appearance

8. Anonymous said on September 2, 2009

   Well Goooollleeee Sarge, that was easy as pie.

9. Name said on September 17, 2009

   Thanks dude, this works great!

10. Soccermaniaccjl said on June 16, 2010

    Changing from windows aero to vista basic theme made dwm.exe go from 62,148k to 1,100 k in memory usage.

11. Anonymous said on June 16, 2010

    Yeah, very impressive.

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