Comments on: [Update] How to Enable / Activate Aero Theme in Windows Vista Home Basic Edition?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:47:18 +0000

- This is real - it's working!!! - I've patched Aero Theory - it's transparent now - on Home Basic SP1 OEM!!! (With Vista Style Builder)
- And the Aero VG was transparent already (almost the only theme that actually was transparent on Home Basic )
- Thanx!!!

By: MasterDelta

MasterDelta — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:34:17 +0000

THIS DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE.

By: krish

krish — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:42:59 +0000

Doesn't work for me. tried both the patched VS and hex editor method.
these are my specs:
Vista Home basic 32-bit sp2
running on Vostro 1500 with NVidia 8400m GS.

By: almost

almost — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:25:15 +0000

yeah my bad....had to enable show window content while dragging and it works now.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:10 +0000

Almost, that isn't to do with the visual style. It's to do with your graphics card.

By: almost

almost — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:40:15 +0000

that already patched aero.msstyles really works but it has a very ugly bug. when you resize or move a window horrible lines appear(with negative colors). I really hope this is gonna be fixed

By: NoOne

NoOne — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:47:17 +0000

Might as well just pay the extra money for Vista Home Premium if you would put out 20 bucks. The glass isn't really even necessary since Vista provides a non glass-like aero feature on basic now. You can change the color of the frame borders and the windows are treated the same as aero because they no longer create a trace like before or on Windows XP when an application froze and was moved around the desktop area.

Trust me, the glass isn't that great and it runs the CPU about 5% higher. It's up to you though.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:31:07 +0000

tried it and it works.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:58:13 +0000

I've tried this and it works... sort of xD now I have the blur effect on non-maximized windows.

I have three "Windows Standard" options in the classic view. One gives me the effect on maximized windows with the windows 7 task bar. The second gives me the effect on non-maximized windows with vista taskbar, and the third gives me the effect on maximized windows with vista taskbar.

So I guess I must have done something wrong with some 7 conversion theme xD

Any idea on what could I do to make it work?

Thanks

By: fediaFedia

fediaFedia — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:52:49 +0000

Hey Vishal, its been updated, there is no need for VSB now.
I'm sure this new patch will be extremely popular, coz there are a lot of notebooks sold with home basic