James Bannan06 June 2007, 4:26 AM
Aero Glass might be nice, but you can get sick of some of its features. Here's how to disable the annoying bits without fully dropping back to Aero Basic.
I’ve been using Vista with Aero Glass enabled for quite a while now, and even though I quite like it, there’s no doubt that my system is working that much harder to maintain the visual feast.
So if your system isn’t quite coping with Aero Glass, or it makes you feel like you’re in the bottom of a goldfish bowl, there are ways to trimming down the effects without having to drop back to Aero Basic.
You can cut the eye-candy while still retaining access to some of the more useful features like flip 3D and taskbar thumbnails.
As with everything in Vista, there are a few ways of accessing the display and theme properties, but the best way is to get into the System Performance dialogue window.
Either:
a) Right-click Computer, select Properties, select Advanced System Settings and then the Settings button under Performance. Or,
b) Click Start, and in the Search field type in SystemPropertiesPerformance and hit Enter
 Vista Display Performance |
Here, you can turn on and off just about any visual setting while maintaining Aero Glass.
The most obvious setting is to untick “Enable transparent glass”, but other options like “Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing” will give you better responsiveness as well.