DWMColorMod: Free Utility for Windows 7 to Customize Aero Glass Appearance

Windows Vista and 7 come with Windows Aero theme which provides awesome glass like transparency effect in a program window. You get blur effect, reflection effect which make the whole window appearance very stylish.

By default Windows doesn’t allow you to highly customize Aero glass appearance. Although you can enable/disable the Aero glass transparency or customize color intensity, hue, saturation and brightness using Desktop Personalization window but there are many other things which you might want to customize like reflection intensity, color levels, etc.

Today we are going to share a free, small and portable tool “DWMColorMod” created by “SamusAranFreak” @ DA for Windows 7 users which allows you to customize almost everything related to Windows Aero interface.

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This tool allows you to customize:

  • Color levels
  • Saturation
  • Brightness
  • Reflection intensity
  • Color intensity
  • Transparency

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You get sliders to customize everything so it becomes very easy to change the stuff according to your requirements. Simply adjust the desired thing by moving the slider and it’ll apply the effect immediately. If you don’t like the effect, you can restore default settings by clicking on “Revert changes” button. So its absolutely safe to use.

You can download it using following link:

Download DWMColorMod for Windows 7

Published in: Software, Windows 7

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. I assume that the maximum value for Aero brightness is 120, not 100.
    I chose 100 to be the maximum value of the trackbar, thus the app crashes on launch.

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