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Get/Enable Glass/Aero in Vista Beta 2 on a Toshiba M200

Posted in Microsoft, Misc, Windows Vista by Kristian Kristensen on the June 24th, 2006

I’ve installed Vista Beta 2 on a seperate partition on my tablet. However, I haven’t been able to get Glass (the transparent windows), which comes with the Aero apperance/theme. That was until I read Scott Forsyth’s blog. He describes some of his difficulties in enabling Blass on Vista Beta 2, and refers to this article on Neowin, that describes how to disable the check that determines if your hardware is good enough for Glass. After following Neowin, and entering the “Visual Apperance” item on the “Personalize” menu in “Control Panel”, I could select “Windows Vista Aero” in the box, and lo and behold I had glass!
I looks great! Really smooth, and Flip 3d (WinKey – Tab) is very cool!

The success didn’t last for long however, apparently my hardware isn’t fast enough, or I used to many system ressources, so Vista disabled Aero/Glass – the DWM process which Aero uses occupied around 150 megabyte of RAM.
But I’ve felt Aero/Glass, and now I cannot go back. I look so forward to the release of Vista.

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  1. josh K said,

    on July 7th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Thanks! This is the help I needed! While I am not getting a degree in computers, I am pretty good but could not get glass to run. I see now that it must be looking down on my sorry geforce 3 graphics card…but it loves my 4400+ x2 cpu! thanks again

  2. Kristian Kristensen said,

    on July 25th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    Glad I could help!

    From my experience glass seems pretty unstable/unusable unless you have the correct hardware which is supported in the current beta. It¨ll change of course. Still it would be nice to have it now :-)

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