Disable Aero on Windows 7 or Vista The Windows Aero Glass interface for Windows 7 or Vista requires a decent video card, you won’t be able to use it on an old clunker computer. For those worried about performance, sometimes squeezing every last drop requires disabling Aero.
Disabling Aero on Windows Vista You might also have some performance reasons for disabling it… to do so, just right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize. Click the “Window Color and Appearance” link: Then in the next screen, click the link near the bottom for “Open classic appearance properties for more color options” Now you should be able to disable Aero altogether by choosing Windows Vista Basic in this screen: Disabling Aero for Windows 7 First, you’ll want to right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize from the menu. Then you can simply scroll the themes down until you see the Basic themes. Disable Aero Shake in Windows 7 One of the interesting new features in Windows 7 is the way you can grab a window by the title bar and “shake” it back and forth to minimize everything else. It’s a fun feature, but just in case you want to disable it we’ve got the solution for you. Disable Aero Shake Manual Registry Hack Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key: block quote HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows block quote end Once you are there, right-click on the Windows key and create a new key called Explorer. Now right-click on the right-hand side, create a new 32-bit DWORD with the following settings: • Name: NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts • Value: 1 Once you’ve created this, you should log off and back on for the change to take effect. hope that helps: Srikanth To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
