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I think I found a workaround for the opacity to stay as defined in AeroGlass GUI after restart. Go to "Personalization" and select Aero Lite theme. Then set all the parameters in the GUI. Restart and the values are kept (after you say "cancel" to the message about symbols). As a matter of fact, the Clsharp_4.4.png theme atlas doesn't work for Aero Lite theme. Only the atlas I extracted from the Aero Lite works. And all windows have a millimeter wide glass frame (including modern apps). You can go back to Aero theme. The settings defined in the GUI are still kept after restart. For this theme the clsharp_4.4.png atlas works and there is no frame. Warning: don't try the Colored theme. Got my system stuck. Had to go into the safe mode and run the Windows repair... Why is this happening? Your guess is as good as mine or maybe better. Something to do with this theme being obsolete (it's pretty old if look at it's date). Looks like MS just spit in there own well... Just buy this for what it's worth. I feel like an id*** since I have no idea what the MS guys are doing to the theme mechanism every new build...

That sentence just lacks "Mr. Anderson" at the end: So allow me to quote Mr. Anderson:

Agreed - a multi-level approach seems prudent indeed. I also have set up a deny-by-default 3rd party firewall configuration, so any "new and improved" telemetry is going to fail, and I'm going to know about it. The DNS server I'm using is Dual DHCP DNS Server, available as an open source project here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-dns-server/ As you described, it can be run on the same system it's being used on. I had to tweak the source to be able to handle a large wildcard blacklist, but it was pretty straightforward to do. At some point I'll join the developer team for the package and submit my changes. -Noel