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Hack: Vista Aero in Home Basic

by Alpesh Nakar

Vista Aero, that glassy effect on your Vista, is not available on Home Basic version.

There is a work around to that. I cannot test this, since I do not have the Home Basic version. But, you my dear reader can test and let me know if you have Home Basic version of Vista.

Workaround:

Change the values of two registry keys and restart Windows Vista.

  1. Open the registry by pressing Windows + R,
  2. Type regedit, press enter
  3. Navigate to the key Hkey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ DWM \ and change the value of the entry Composition to 1 and the value of CompositionPolicy to 0.
  4. Restart

 

  1. Select the Aero interface by right-clicking on the desktop
  2. Select Personalize from the menu.
  3. Switch to Colors and Appearance
  4. Click on Classic Appearance Properties
  5. Choose Windows Vista Aero from the menu.

 

That’s it!

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6 Responses to “Hack: Vista Aero in Home Basic”

  1. zak Says:

    This hack works but the Live Thumbnails and 3D Flip dont work witht this hack …
    If you can Find a work around for that then please post it soon

  2. jack g Says:

    that does not work
    i downloaded a thing called vista glazz and made the gass work when maximised
    is there a way to make it work when the windows is restored down
    and tell me how to make the live thumbnailes and flip 3d work aswell

  3. Alpesh Nakar Says:

    I will snoop around. I don’t have home version anymore! :-)

    Stay tuned

  4. eric Says:

    doesnt work. probly because of a win update :(
    no transparent windows, nothing!

  5. akash Says:

    this method is stupid. this person is unnecessary trying to gain attention.

  6. Zahar k Says:

    doesnt work i tryed it what doas “…value of the “ENTRY” Composition to 1 and the value of Composition Policy to 0.”

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