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Enable Vista Glass on Compatible Hardware
Published 10/18/2006 in Windows Vista User Interface Tweaks by Steve Sinchak with 113,053 views

If you have a video card that is using WDDM drivers and supports DirectX 9c but is not allowing you to use vista glass, there is a cool trick that you can use to force Aero to run. Follow the steps below:

  1. Click on the start button and key in regedit and hit Enter.
  2. Navigate through, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows and DWM.
  3. Set Composition to 1 and CompositionPolicy to 2.
  4. Restart the DWM by restarting the Desktop Windows Manager Session Manager service. This can be done in services.msc or by typing net stop uxsms and net start uxsms at command prompt.

Once the service restarts you will have glass!

 
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Pranav
How to undo this change..??
295 days ago
Brittany
When I go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, I don't see anything that says 'Software.'
222 days ago
Zen Yui
This was perfect, thanks!
151 days ago
Thank you. This allowed me to use the Windows 7 theme I downloaded for my Vista.
109 days ago
mb
This worked for my wife's Sony VAIO VGC-LT15E that Sony stated was not Win7 upgradable. The only thing it needed was a video driver. This regedit worked for Windows 7 Professional.
104 days ago
Kashyap
Hey Steve, this does work for Win Vista as mentioned by others, but its not working for my Win 6.1.7600..... :(
104 days ago
Safi
i have AGP Ati Radeon but it dosent work..
104 days ago
Andre Hough
I bought windows 7 basic today. It sux that it does not the aero compatibility and no themes. It does not state anywhere on the box that it does not have it. That is completely unfair and misinterpretation as that is one of the things about windows 7 that sells it is the cool new look.Is there a way to fix this?
101 days ago
Bleah
System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.
85 days ago
miss reyes
hey thanks!! it didnt work in my command prompt but i restarted it from the services.msc way and it totally worked. but the problem is now i have to do that every time i want the aero and glass effect. any way to make it permanent so i wouldnt have to do that each time?
61 days ago
 
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