Aero Glass 1.5.9.1345 | 1.5.10.1515 | 1.5.11 | 1.5.12 | Portable

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29 July 2019, 15:16

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Aero Glass integrates into the the Desktop Windows Manager without compromising any system components. It uses the native Direct3D device to render the effects and colors. You can change the transparency and base colors directly from the Windows Colorization Control Panel.

This utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames

Apply glass look to windows borders
Blur the content behind the borders to improve UI experience
Change amount of transparency in Control panels directly
Change inactive windows borders color
Skin windows borders (add glow, shadows etc.) without changing Windows theme
Fully native including MSStyle themes and DWM API compatibility
Low resources usage

Key Features

Glass look

Your windows will be rendered with transparent borders. This look allows you to see what is behind the border. The key element is the blurring of content behind the glass borders to prevent it from being too clear and disturbing. The result is very smart window border!

Fully native

The utility is completely integrated into Desktop Window Manager without breaking any system protection or modifying system files. All rendering is done via native Direct3D device. Any colorization settings adjusted in Windows Control Panels are respected. Use color intensity slider to adjust the amount of the transparency.
No custom skinning engine used. Due to the native nature of this utility your Windows theme is composited together with the glass effect. All features controlled through DWM API (e.g. DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow or DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea) are supported including the taskbar or custom Start menu blur effect.

Low resources usage!

This library tries to utilize all DWM resources as much as possible to minimize RAM and VRAM usage. No redudant objects are created, no background service is running (Win8 only; Win8.1 version needs light-weight background process to correctly load user's settings). The result is light-weight library which behaves exactly in the same way as Aero Glass in Windows 7 did. No performance degradation!

Theme your windows!

You can change the look of your windows borders completely without touching your Windows theme or using unsigned theme. This allows you to bring back several effects such as window shadow, caption glow effect, rounded borders or simply change the appearence of caption buttons. You just modify single bitmap in your favourite image editor and everything will look as you want!

RePack by evgen_b

Already includes GUI (shortcut created in the program group of the start menu and control panel)
Already includes ModernFrame (original is set apart with dances with a tambourine). There is command line option not to install.
Already includes UxThemeSignatureBypass (original is set apart with dances with a tambourine). There is command line option not to install.
Correctly installed in Program Files (the original not learned how to do it — crap is installed in the root of the drive).
In version 1.5.1-1.5.7 fixed a problem with colors, see the FAQ.
In version 1.4.6 fixed problem with colors in Windows 10 RTM, and TH (at the same time and the GUI on these systems now works correctly), see FAQ.
In 1.5.2 fixed issues: in the original may not run Modern apps in the root of the disk file appears c:\debug.log.
In the plugin UxThemeSignatureBypass fixed problem which did not open package files, the Windows desktop (*.deskthemepack), see FAQ.
Some more important improvements, but it is not visible to the average user (for example, reboot in many cases is not necessary, but nevertheless desirable).
Installing to a compressed folder, the program on disk takes almost 2 times less than its real size.
Able to automatically set the atlases, symbols, etc., in addition they are already included in the Repack.
Version 1.5.2-1.5.9 support SecureBoot (to run Aero Glass as services), these versions also added a small control console.
Run the Repack in the command line with the-help parameter to see all options «quiet» run the installer.
Version 1.5.5-1.5.9 — allows you to apply unsigned themes from a new Modern panel Personalization (the original does not know). There is command line option not to install.
Version 1.5.5-1.5.9 — allows you to return to the control Panel Personalization (classic). The original can not. You can disable it.