How to Enable Glass-Effects on 5048

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Nextstep OS X

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I wish i could install Longhorn, but I run too many apps and will surely run into trouble. Also VMware seems to have trouble running Longhorn and i am sure cant run all the neatO Speaciale FX's!

Oh well, will intall Beta 2 of Longhorn next year. A feature complete beta 2 and use it as (or try to) my main PC OS. (having everything back up of course)

At least I have Tiger, this year will be tiger year. Hopefully next year Longhorn (if they can make release by december 2006)

or will 2006 be OS X 10.5 year....???

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PureLogic

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I wish i could install Longhorn, but I run too many apps and will surely run into trouble. Also VMware seems to have trouble running Longhorn and i am sure cant run all the neatO Speaciale FX's!

Oh well, will intall Beta 2 of Longhorn next year. A feature complete beta 2 and use it as (or try to) my main PC OS. (having everything back up of course)

At least I have Tiger, this year will be tiger year. Hopefully next year Longhorn (if they can make release by december 2006)

or will 2006 be OS X 10.5 year....???

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I don't think Apple will release a new system before 2007. Unless they really have set their minds to blowing Longhorn away, if you know what I mean. It probably really depends on how many "shocking" new features Longhorn will have (especially the ones everyone can see without being a developer) that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger doesn't have yet.

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PyX

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My thoughts are not positive, not positive at all. This is a painful build to have to deal with after a year of waiting, a step back in some ways. I hope Microsoft has surprises up their sleeves. This has the makings of a train wreck. I'll have more on that later.

  --Paul Thurott

Hmm, interesting, for he is thinking exactly like me I believe.

Beta 1 is due in about 2 months (June 25th 2005?), then we shall see if they managed to put some pieces together. My bet is still that they won't. :no:

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AminoSC

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thought you might all like to know that the glass effects run quite nicely on my pc and that is athlonxp 1800+ 1gb ram, geforce fx5200 (agp 8x). quite a good performance increase on what i got in 4074.

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I have the same GPU (fx5200) and am getting very smooth transitions and the glass effects are working perfectly. I'm using the fx5900 lddm driver.

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AminoSC

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This build was not meant to impress you.  What part of that don't you understand?

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We may as well give up. The morons will never understand. They shouldn't be allowed on computers much less have a copy of Longhorn.

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AminoSC

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I have an ATi Radeon 9250, and I know it says 9800 for DWM, but is there naything I can do to make it run DWM with my card?

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Force your card to use the 9800's LDDM driver, reboot.

Then type C:\windows\system32\uxss.exe in the "run" box.

Don't close the error msg that comes up, just pull it to the side so it doesn't get in your way.

Voila!

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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There is a way to enable the cool DWM effects without having to meet the hardware specifications.

Here's how you can enable the DWM Effects in Longhorn Build 5048, bear in mind that results may vary depending on your hardware configuration  :

Go to start, Run, and type regedit

Browse to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Here, you will need to add two DWord keys: MILExplorer and MILDesktop, give them both a value of 1

---RESTART---

Now, whenever you want to start the DWM engine... do the following (you could make this a shortcut or batch file for quicker starting up each time :)  )

Go to Start, Run, and type cmd

In the command prompt window type cd\ .. this will take you to the root.

Then type cd windows\system32\ this will take you to the system32 dir.

When you are in the System32 directory, type the following:

rundll32.exe udwm.dll DwmClientStartup

Enjoy teh 1337-ness! :laugh: 

I have the batch file but I can't upload it to Neowin. I'm using a P4 2.60GHz, 512MB of RAM, and a GeForce FX 5600 256MB DX9 card. At first the transparency might not work, if that happens restart your computer.

Courtesy of JCXP.net.

I'm not sure if this is legal or not. To mods: If my post is illegal in anyway snip anypart of it that is illegal. Click here to go to the exact page and get the batch file here.

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eminem213486

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wow, holy ****z.. im surprised at how good dwm runs on my laptop. the dell 6000 celeron m with INTEGRADED graphics... intel said it would be longhorn ready but damn.. i get all the effects n stuff guys. with the default driver installed by longhorn 5048. im one happy camper :D

btw, all i did to enable it was the reg patch from winbetas DWM page on their review, and start it using c:/windows/system32/uxss.exe. the effects show up instantly. now to test my desktop machine :p

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eminem213486

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haha i made a vid guys.. check it out http://bitterapple.mine.nu/lh5048dwm.avi save target as... dont stream plz..

edit: omg dont all go at once.. i got 19 sends going... jeez. it only makes it slower for everyone :laugh: glad to see interest though.

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cpu killer

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http://home.comcast.net/~bitterapple/lh5048dwm.wmv

there it is. reeencoded to wmv and on a faster server. sorry to the people who were dling and gotta do it again.

btw, u can stream this one, its fast.

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What are your specs and what steps exactly did you take to enable that? Amazing. It's so sluggish on my 9700.

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eminem213486

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my specs are on my sig. its the laptop

dell inspiron 6000

1.5 ghz celeron M

512mb ram, 6 gig (backup hd i had lying around)

intel integraded graphics 900

i know im amazed it runs so well. on intels site it says the chipset and graphics board are longhorn ready but damn...

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cpu killer

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my specs are on my sig. its the laptop

dell inspiron 6000

1.5 ghz celeron M

512mb ram, 6 gig (backup hd i had lying around)

intel integraded graphics 900

i know im amazed it runs so well. on intels site it says the chipset and graphics board are longhorn ready but damn...

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Wow, I defientely did something wrong. Did you enable it via uxss.exe or DwmClientStartup?

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eminem213486

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i did:

type services.msc in the run box on the start menu.

double click the entry for "User Experience Session Management Service" set to "automatic"

add:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DWM]

"EnableMachineCheck"=dword:00000000

reboot.

do: start-run - c:/windows/system32/uxss.exe

done... those are the steps, exacly as i took...

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