I use Windows 10 Pro. Dell xps 9550 laptop old laptop 5 years old.Few years ago I had this message at startup each time. I basically ignored it for many years. Then I think someone told me to download something or remove aero glass and I no longer got that message at startup anymore. But maybe a year later or so, I got a very similar message and it shows up each time i turn on my windows ten pro laptop.Basically it showsRed X Mark dwm.exeAero Glass For Win 8.1+ Incompatibility issueYour system version is not supported by this version of Aero Glass. Continue Anyway?Retry/CancelSo each time this happens, I click CancelThen It ShowsRed X Mark Aero Glass For Win 8.1+ Incompatibility issueAero Glass does not know how to hook your version of DWM (0x7FF3).Do not report this because this is not a bug.Retry/CancelI click Cancel
Aero Glass for Win8.1
I remember few years ago I had this same error message each time i start up my laptop. I fixed it by doing something but a while later on, I got this message again.I also have ton of lagging on my laptop. Could this be a reason? I remember I installed aero glass a while back because i wanted the windows to have that transparent look like windows 7 because when i first used windows ten... i wasn't a fan of how it looked.I think someone told me the reason i get this message is because there is no longer support for aero glass for windows ten. So does this mean I either have to get this annoying message each time or remove aero glass?
Those files show words like minidump etc. I guess its because of tons of errors? Thing is everytime i started my laptop i had that aero glass compatibility issue message for years. So i close and cancel each twice each time i turn on laptop... so that probably caused it? I remember sometime a year or two ago, i fixed this issue by downloading something. But then months later, same message at startup. So i just basically ignore it the entire time i turn on my laptop each time and cancel it.
If you have installed Aero Glass for Windows 8 to enable Aero glass and enjoying the same, you might want to hide or disable the warning message. Fancesco, a member of MSFN community has developed a small utility to hide Aero Glass warning message and it supports the latest version of Aero Glass for Windows 8.
Microsoft introduced Windows Aero as the premium visual experience in Windows Vista. It featured a translucent glass design with subtle window animations and new window colors. Microsoft cited the following as the main features of Aero theme,
Now, there is an unofficial tool called Aero Glass which enables glass look to windows borders. It is quite famous among tech enthusiasts. Now, the developers behind this tool has announced that Aero Glass will be coming to Windows 10 as well. It will look like the above image.
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers that meet certain hardware and software requirements, the Windows Aero theme is used by default, primarily incorporating various animation and transparency effects into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista, users can customize the "glass" effects to either be opaque or transparent, and change the color it is tinted. Enabling Windows Aero also enables other new features, including an enhanced Alt-Tab menu and taskbar thumbnails with live previews of windows, and "Flip 3D", a window switching mechanism which cascades windows with a 3D effect.
This is a boolean property (1/0) that enables or disables the Aero Glass effect for a form. The GLASSMARGINS property must have been set before this property can be used to enable glass rendering.
Aero Glass, is a modified version of smoked glass featuring modified background texture and adjustments to the username and picture elements.Along with matching the color of your Taskbar/Windows Theme, this skin currently has the following Options:-Two Columns-No Icons in Second Column-Show User Picture-Show User Name-Small Icons-Reduce Glass Color-Center Username-Taskbar On Top-Dark Side Column-More Transparent-WhiteBackground
...All of them work as advertised, but that's it. I'm using your link in your first post in this thread to download the Aero glass.skin. Am I perchance getting the wrong file--an older file prior to the option, perhaps?
theres 2 things i can think of, maybe your copying it to the folder and still using the origional (try changing the skin to aero_glass_copy or whatever it is)or your copying to the wrong directory? default would be : C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\Skins
Which is what was weird about my former problem. Using Ff, I'd attempt to save the aero glass.skin download right over the old version in the c:\program files\classic shell\skins directory. I'd actually watch the operation complete. (But it never did.) When I finally just copied it on over there to overwrite the old file I finally got the administrator prompt and was actually able to overwrite the file for the first time.
sadly yes it is windows 8, they removed a bunch of the aero stuff, i can only guess to make things run smoother (why else would they ditch a perfectly good feature)and for now there is a 'buggy' workaround ( -to-enable-aero-glass-style-transparency-in-windows-8/), and hopefully a better one soon (preferably by Microsoft), ill see what i can do about increasing the transparency of the skin though since apparently some transparency shows through..
The trick to a real Aero glass is the blur filter. The "workaround" only makes the window frame transparent, but not blurry. The only program I've seen that does some blur on Win8 is ViStart, and it does it by capturing the image behind the window and then blurs it in software. However this doesn't work in many cases as it is not a real-time blur.
If a skin has glass, I'm trying to fake it by remapping the alpha using a non-linear curve (a power of 0.2 to be precise), which makes the alpha go up faster in the beginning and then level off near the end. I adjusted it to give a good transparency for the built-in skins. It may not work well in all cases. Maybe the best solution is to have 2 sets of backgrounds (for Win7 and for Win8) and switch them with a setting. I can look in future versions to add a hidden setting that is automatically set based on the OS version.
The reason for the non-linear curve is that with proper glass (Win7) a fully transparent image shows as a blank glass slate. It is a somewhat blueish (depends on the glass color) and blurry background. It is basically what you see in title bars on Windows 7. Since I want to reuse the same background for both Win7 and Win8, I had to do some shenenigans.
It is not just the background. In case of a glassy skin like yours the whole menu needs to do the same because on Win7 the whole menu is blurry. So I'm doing the curve as a post-process after the whole menu image (text, icons, everything) is composited.
The way the glass color is mixed with the background color doesn't depend on the alpha channel of the background image. It depends on the R and G channels of the mask bitmap.You can make a 100% opaque menu that is 100% glass color.
Some Windows 8 users do not mind the new functionalities that come with it, but miss the Aero glass effects and overall look of WIndows 7. No options currently exist to get all those neat translucent effects back, but several apps are available that partially restore them. UxStyle is a free application that allows your system to install third-party themes. Deviant Art also offers a Windows 7 theme in the form of a downloadable zip file. Despite warnings that say otherwise, the theme will work for Windows 8.1 as well. 2ff7e9595c
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