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"Hack to Force Enable Aero in Windows 7
Windows 7 has a nice little Windows
Aero troubleshooting tool to find and
fix problems with transparency and
other visual effects, and then enable
and turn on Aero support (and also
Aero Peek) in Windows 7. If the tool
does not work to enable Aero feature
in Windows 7, the trick to force
enable Aero in Windows Vista may still
work in Windows 7.
Follow these steps in the instruction
below to force enable Windows Aero
Glass Transparency effect on system
with video card (graphic accelerator
adapter) that does not meet the WDDM
(Windows Display Driver Model )
specifications, which provides
functionality required to render the
desktop and applications using Desktop
Window Manager, a compositing window
manager running on top of Direct3D
9.0Ex, and provides device driver interfaces required by Direct3D 10
runtime used in Windows 7.
Open Registry Editor (RegEdit).
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM
If the DWM registry key is not found, right click on Windows and then
select New -> Key to create new branch
and name it as DWM.
In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit value)
named UseMachineCheck, and set its
value to 0.
In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value
named Blur, and set its value to 0.
In the right details pane, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value
named Animations, and set its value to
0.
Restart the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager in Services in
Control Panel (type Services.msc in
Start Search), or run the following
commands in a command prompt with
administrator privileges:
net stop uxsms
net start uxsms
Attempt to enable and apply Windows Aero in Windows 7. Restart the
computer if required.
The trick above also may work to
enable Aero on Windows 7 and Windows
Vista installed on virtual machine
(VM), especially in Virtual PC 2007.
VPC 2007 uses S3 as virtual display
adapter, which is capable of running
Windows Aero. When the guest Windows 7
or Vista OS uses software-based
hardware check after hack above, it
will find only S3, couple with actual
Aero-capable video card, may allow
Aero to run in VMs as in real physical
machine.
Source"
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