[bigmuscle]

Blackbird256, on 23 May 2013 - 08:55 AM, said:

BM is there any way for you to add the W7 compatibility option Disable desktop composition? I understand it's probably not high priority for you right now, but it would be great if you could look at it sometime later. I have plenty of games that don't play nice with it on.

I think this is beyond the scope of this application and I admit that I don't know how to achieve this. If I kill DWM, it is restarted immediately. If I force it not to be restarted (or frozen immediately after startup), the screen won't be drawn at all.

WindowsOS, on 23 May 2013 - 06:23 PM, said:

Hey BigMuscle, when are you going to start working on Flip 3D for Windows 8. At this point, I am stuck with this imitator called WinFlip. Download securely at http://winflip.en.so...ic.com/download

This is low priority feature so if it happens, it will take long time...

[WindowsOS]

bigmuscle, on 24 May 2013 - 10:23 AM, said:

I think this is beyond the scope of this application and I admit that I don't know how to achieve this. If I kill DWM, it is restarted immediately. If I force it not to be restarted (or frozen immediately after startup), the screen won't be drawn at all.

Actually, I was able to kill DWM by using PsSuspend to suspend WinLogin.exe (which suspending prevents DWM to restart) and then killing it. I highly recommend using Windows 7's explorer since the start screen (which uses DWM to animate) covers the Primary Monitor in Windows 8's Explorer when you kill DWM. Here is the Bat file code:
To Kill:

@echo off
echo DWM KillCode for Windows 8. FOR TESTING PORPOSES ONLY!
pause
pssuspend.exe winlogon.exe
taskkill /IM dwm.exe /F

To Resurrect:

@echo off
pause
pssuspend.exe -r winlogon.exe
dwm.exe

Source Video:

Attached File(s)

•  Aero Glass Snip16.PNG (59.43K)
  Number of downloads: 18

This post has been edited by WindowsOS: 24 May 2013 - 01:34 PM

[ORelio]

Nice trick, WindowsOS!

[Lunos]

WindowsOS, on 24 May 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

bigmuscle, on 24 May 2013 - 10:23 AM, said:

I think this is beyond the scope of this application and I admit that I don't know how to achieve this. If I kill DWM, it is restarted immediately. If I force it not to be restarted (or frozen immediately after startup), the screen won't be drawn at all.

Actually, I was able to kill DWM by using PsSuspend to suspend WinLogin.exe (which suspending prevents DWM to restart) and then killing it. I highly recommend using Windows 7's explorer since the start screen (which uses DWM to animate) covers the Primary Monitor in Windows 8's Explorer when you kill DWM. Here is the Bat file code:
To Kill:

@echo off
echo DWM KillCode for Windows 8. FOR TESTING PORPOSES ONLY!
pause
pssuspend.exe winlogon.exe
taskkill /IM dwm.exe /F

To Resurrect:

@echo off
pause
pssuspend.exe -r winlogon.exe
dwm.exe

Source Video:

How did you get the W7 Basic theme in W8? D:

ON:
How can i use this? ...

Cya~

[Lunos]

WindowsOS, on 24 May 2013 - 01:33 PM, said:

bigmuscle, on 24 May 2013 - 10:23 AM, said:

I think this is beyond the scope of this application and I admit that I don't know how to achieve this. If I kill DWM, it is restarted immediately. If I force it not to be restarted (or frozen immediately after startup), the screen won't be drawn at all.

Actually, I was able to kill DWM by using PsSuspend to suspend WinLogin.exe (which suspending prevents DWM to restart) and then killing it. I highly recommend using Windows 7's explorer since the start screen (which uses DWM to animate) covers the Primary Monitor in Windows 8's Explorer when you kill DWM. Here is the Bat file code:
To Kill:

@echo off
echo DWM KillCode for Windows 8. FOR TESTING PORPOSES ONLY!
pause
pssuspend.exe winlogon.exe
taskkill /IM dwm.exe /F

To Resurrect:

@echo off
pause
pssuspend.exe -r winlogon.exe
dwm.exe

Source Video:

How did you get the W7 Basic theme in W8? D:

ON:
How can i use this? ...

Cya~

[shaneblack]

I'm having a problem with the opacity option, its not doing anything. I tried every setting like native blur and using different DX versions but nothing seems to work. Blur works, but not opacity. No matter where a slide the slider it dosent work. If I'm correct the more opacity the more transparent the windows are, and the less opacity the more solid they are. This isn't the case and I just get the same results in transparency everytime no matter how much blur I use or what settings I change. If someone could help I'd be really happy.

[ORelio]

Opacity slider from AGTweaker is for an old version of Glass, use Color Intensity in Personalize panel instead.

[WindowsOS]

Lunos, on 24 May 2013 - 07:08 PM, said:

How did you get the W7 Basic theme in W8? D:
ON:
How can i use this? ...
Cya~

For compatibility reasons, the Windows 7 Basic theme still exists in all of the default Windows 8 themes, including the Release Preview and Basic theme. You can see the W7 Basic theme (With Aero opening animation) when you run a program in Windows XP Compatibility mode. To use it, all you need to do is to copy pssuspend.exe to the System32 folder and run the batch file script as a Administrator. Remember to use the Win7 Explorer located here: http://www.msfn.org/...-for-windows-8/ I think this might work with Win8 Explorer if someone can find a way to get out of the Start Screen after DWM is killed.

ORelio, on 24 May 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:

Nice trick, WindowsOS!

Thanks, but I cannot take all the credit. therealcartoonmonkey on YouTube made the video, and possibly the trick. I just perfected it.

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•  Aero Glass Snip17.PNG (29.18K)
  Number of downloads: 21

This post has been edited by WindowsOS: Yesterday, 12:14 PM