You can turn off aero glass and you can use a key combo to turn it off and
on.
If you find the Aero Glass user interface annoying, orif it is slow on your
computer configuration, simply press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to turn it off. Press
this key combination again to re-enable it.
Aero glass is just marketing to people who would rather that it look good
than work well. MSFT has done tons of focus groups where the result was
that the unwashed masses of MSFT customers that they consider
condescendingly as stupid and manipulable don't care whether something
functions well as long as it "looks cool."
If you do a careful analysis of most of the promotions that MSFT makes for
Office any version or Windows any version they appeal to lower common
denominators, are vague and devoid of detailed information on features, and
are presented in superficial generalities.
Some of us watched a really moronic presentation by someone "from MSFT" at a
joint AMD presentation and quickly realized he new next to nothing about
Windows. We were peppered by such crebreal insights as "Windows XP SP2 is a
really great operating system" and "Vista is really cool and will be a big
deal."
The OEM system builders that were a large part of the audience, hammered
him with questions like "Why are we required by MSFT to provide genuine
retail media and your named partners provide crap recovery discs and
partitions that just don't work"?
Answer: "Ya wanna buy 50, 000 OEM preinstalls of Windows and then we'll
letcha screw the public just like the large OEMs." Also amusingly MSFT's
new mantra at these events is "we're really going after people who sell
pirated software." Fact: You're going after the 1% of people you can find
mostly in the US despite your cloak and dagger hiring investigators to wait
in cars in European alleys."
To why is WGA calling home: "We're um considering what to do and it will
probably do this less." Questioner: No --you don't get it we'll just
remove the component that calls home with software that's all over the web.
At no time did it occur to the MSFT presenter that the OEM software crap
they hose the public with works for anything. One of the bright bulbs from
AMD chimed into a question about losing the media from the 300 named
partners and the OEM system builders replacing it that "when they lose the
recovery CD it's like the idiots lose a $100 bill." Far from it processor
boy, its actually that they lose a piece of worthless crap on a disc.
Aero glass effect much better than MSFT has in Vista and its spinoffs and
sequels Aurora, Diamond ect. have been available for several years via 3rd
party and they are all over the web. So are 3D effects that MSFT may never
include in the OS. The caviat is you have to watch their CPU use.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28854588/
http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board/showthread.php?t=17537
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