Who says Windows Vista Home Basic doesn't have aero glass?

How to enable Aero Glass on Vista Home Basic.

Regedit:
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM/

Composition = 1
CompositionPolicy = 2

Right click Command Prompt and run as admin:

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

Done!

Here is proof.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/814544...

"Windows Me II aka Windows Vista."

nothing new: with a little 'tweak' you turn any xp home CD into a full xp pro disc, incl. gpedit, remote desktop, etc.

yet more bloat installed by windows, just in this case MS is disabling the 'component' :-)

for a reason: home basic is just an exuse of an OS for companies such as HP/Compaq to sell cheap low memory boxes to customers who don't know better. with aero, home basic would not meet those pathetic 'minimum' system requirements.

however, using vLite on vista ultimate to get rid of the bloat turned up some interesting results. not only that the whole shebang fits on just 1 CD, such an installation has proven to use just little over 200 MB RAM (WITH aero enabled). so, yes you can 'use' vista ultimate on systems with only 256 MB ram (in fact, this is less than a fully blown, untweaked XP installation :-). well, it's not exactly a great experience but with 512 MB and a decent vid card it's performing well enough.

but hey, it can't be in the industry's interest, having a new version of windows running on 5 years old hardware, no, the bloat has to be 2 years AHEAD if it's time ... and that's why we don't see the "customized" installation :-)

Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

That will be my next project use vLite and uncheck everything and make a test dvd copy of Vista and see how much faster it is.

"Windows Me II aka Windows Vista."

"Who says Windows Vista Home Basic doesn't have aero glass?"

While the hack you posted may enable standard Aero (with a supported hardware), it doesn't enable glass (transparency) & AFAIK there is no hack to natively enable glass in Home Basic.

I'm sure some hacker will program it. Just like one hacker found away to put media center on windows 2003, lol go figure, of course this guy was a former MS programmer

"Windows Me II aka Windows Vista."

I did step one by changing the compositions.I don't know much abouit computers waht commnad prompt do I right click on, do i find that on the desktop, or my computer or control panel.