Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Enable Aero Effects in Windows 7 even on unsupported Graphics cards

Aero Glass Transparency Effect one of best features of Windows Vista is also extended to Windows7. However the hardware requirement to enable aero in windows 7 is much higher then average users can have.
 
We might have some users who even after installing Windows 7 are disappointed by the fact that their graphics card is very primitive or low and they get an error message saying that Aero Themes are not supported by your Graphics Card.
 
What can be the solution? Change your graphics card ?? Noooo... not at all why to spend so much for that... So here we are showing you a small registry tweak which will enable all the Aero Themes, Glass effects etc even on your primitive graphics card...
 
Herez how you go:

1. Click on Start. In run or search box type regedit

2. Now Navigate to the following registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM

3. In the right details pane, create the following three DWORD (32-bit value)entry
    
    UseMachineCheck, and set its value to 0

    Blur, and set its value to 0

    Animations, and set its value to 0
   
4. Close Regedit

5. Click on Start and type CMD with administrative Priviliges 
   (Imp : for this Right click on cmd and select run as administrator)

6. Now type following command

    Net Stop uxsms

    Net Start uxsms

   Above command will stop and start Desktop Window Manager Session Manager.

7. Now Attempt to Enable Aero by right clicking on desktop-> Personalize ->Windows Colors

8. Enjoy!! Aero effects !!

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