"Glass" look in Vista

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It depends if you have a video card that supports it or not. What video
card do you have?
 
I'm running it on my laptop so there's a builtin Mobile Intel
915GM/GMS/910GML Express, it's 128 MB vid card.
 
I'm not certain that currently supports Aero Glass, but it might later down
the line. Wait for someone else to come along on here to see if you can,
but I don't think at this point and time that graphics chipset supports Aero
Glass. There's probably some cheat to force it to work, but I'm not sure
how.
 
I have that same chipset in my laptop (Dell Inspiron), it's not a DX9
chipset and so will likely never support glass.
 
I have a NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL and the glass effect is not turned on, I have
a relative with the exact same but theres is on. Is there some way its by
default turned off and I can turn it on somehow?
 
I have a NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL and the glass effect is not turned on, I have
a relative with the exact same but theres is on. Is there some way its by
default turned off and I can turn it on somehow?
 
Right click the Desktop, select Personalise. Click on Theme (I think) then
from there, select the Windows Aero option. In the preview it'll look the
same as Aero Basic, but that should still work if you apply then OK it.

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Hi kpwood

If you cannot turn on glass with selecting the "Aero glass" theme because
it's not avialable on your machine, you may have a graphic card who is not
supported by glass functionality. However, there is a workarround:

It's a hack, so no warranty at all... :-)
Sometimes it makes systems CRAZY slow... and it may not work on all systems
too...

In the registery search for

HKLM\Software\Microsoft

generate a new subkey DWM in it. In this subkey, generate a dword named
EnableMachineCheck. This switch enables / disables the hardwware
compatibility check for the glass interface. 0 means no check, 1 means
compatibility check. If this switch is 0, VISTA does not perform a check and
you are be able to switch the Glass function on.

After this modification, reboot the system. You shut now be able to select
VISTA GLASS as theme.
 
also, if you have nVidia card you could try www.laptopvideo2go.com. They
folks create an INF card so we can use nVidia's latest driver with any OEM
cards. Thus, you can get the beta nVidia Vista driver and use it. I imagine
it could work on any OEM card, not just for laptops. It's a thought.


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