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Aero Glass/Transparent window borders in Windows 8?

How do I get the transparency Aero theme in Windows 8 like as in Windows 7? My graphics card driver is up to date but I dont see any "Aero" theme when I go to the Personalize menu.

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Charles
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Aero has been removed in Windows 8. Microsoft states it is because transparency is no longer cool and Metro is all about simple shapes and clear colours. But I guess the decision was made to not have a shader running all the time just for that bit of transparency effect as it tends to drain the battery faster.

Joey
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Use Aero8Tuner. It lets you get transparency but it is not so usable.

Aero8Tuner

Elmo
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However MS removed the feature of Aero in Windows 8 but you can still enable it by tweak in Windows 8 RTM. Before we proceed

Note: Please create a restore point or a backup of registry in any kind of buggy situation.

Press the Win+R and type

regedit

now navigate to the following key path

Computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM

Now select the key ColorizationGlassAttribute and double click on it. Now change the value from 1 to 2. Close the registry editor.

Now open the task manager and under Processes tab find the Windows Processes and select the Desktop Windows Manger and click on End Task.

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Now a popup dialog will appear then mark the option Abandon unsaved data and shut down and click OK.

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Congrats you have aero effect on your system now. But carefully it is buggy ao use it at your own risk.

Source is this YouTube video

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