Already have an account? Sign in here. MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue. The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. How do I uninstall Aero Glass for Win 8. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted March 7, Before installing Windows 8. Or draw windows without borders? That just doesn't make sense to me Show 3 more comments.
Active Oldest Votes. This will disable all visual effects associated with the old Aero theme. Improve this answer. Add a comment. Windows 8 isn't supposed to be supporting the aero interface. Kevin Scharnhorst Kevin Scharnhorst 7 7 bronze badges. I can't believe my eyes. Did they just throw corporate customers out the window? How can you do anything productive Office? Visual Studio? Microsoft might have merged DWM with another service during refactoring though.
Eventually the saga reaches Windows Vista and the introduction of Aero, a user interface that espoused shiny, glossy, translucent, specular surfaces above all else. As you can see above, the Windows 8 desktop is flat, square, white, and really rather beautiful.
Gradients are gone, glows are gone, rounded corners have been squared, and transparency is severely curtailed only the taskbar is slightly transparent now. Even drop shadows — an operating system stalwart that has haunted us since Windows XP — have been almost completely gutted. As for why Aero is being removed, the reasoning is probably twofold. First, while the Desktop paradigm can never be shoehorned into a Metro-style touch-friendly interface, these changes definitely go some way towards unifying the Desktop design with the Metro Start Screen and apps, Windows Phone 7, and the Xbox.
There is no reason the start screen couldn't have been a giant full-screen glass panel. The Windows 8 start menu was old-news to me, considering I invented it back in when I was still an undergrad.
In my graduate work, I formalized the design with "scenario-based design" methodology and presented it to my class, as well as to Lockheed Martin in who incidentally wanted to patent it, but I wouldn't let them, explaining that I had already shown it to many people and wanted it to be free. It came complete with a full-screen display of icons based on what was in your quicklaunch folder that could be expanded in width to display additional information about each shortcut.
I used the F8 key with a global hook to activate it since I couldn't hook the Windows key in Win XP , and to start a search, all you had to do was start typing.
After each letter typed, it would refilter the matching icons, by looking for the letter sequence anywhere with the shortcut name, filename, or shortcut description, so that typing "IM" would match "AIM" as well as "GIMP". After each re-filtering, the non-matching icons would smoothly fade out in place, and the remaining icons would smoothly animate to regroup, in order, in the center of the display.
I have this all documented and graded long before Windows Vista even arrived, and even presented it at Lockheed Martin in as I said.
So as far as I'm concerned, Windows 8's start screen is nice, but it actually botches the idea I came up with long before. If you read my scenario-based design specification a formal specification from Authors at PSU which I adopted for my design , it details exactly why every aspect of this full-screen tile system with morphing "live" icons is most efficient, as well as more suitable for a touch display.
But again, Windows 8 got the details wrong, so it's not that great or usable. For example, in my system, the icons remained in the same places so that your spacial memory could allow you to quickly touch the same spot every time at a given resolution.
Anyway, I'm glad they at least moved in that obvious direction, but I've demonstrated and reasoned that it could be done much better. Nice try. Bottom line, removing a feature does not count as a performance improvement. How about removing the entire OS, that would free up a lot of processor cycles!
The Glass effect was important. The blurring was functional and aesthetically pleasing and calming. I have zero interest in Windows 8 at this point. Microsoft wants people to move away from the start menu and desktop, glass aero, gadgets, custom themes, startup and shutdown sounds and more cool stuff, honest,y Microsoft shouldn't do what they want, they should do what customers want. I might as well downgrade to windows 7 via Linux. In reply to Sn0whacker's post on January 22,
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