Aero Titlebar will be available on XP!

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I'm sorry, but there is a difference between transparent titlebars and a fully 3D accelerated GUI with Pixel Shader effects.

I really think people are going overboard with this.

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your correct they are. the effect in longhorn will be so far ahead of this. and its built into the system at no cost (well a little) to the cpu and ram you dont need to install something extra. not only that but windowblinds cant get the full glass we all saw in windows and IE7 in the 5203 screenshots. if you look back you will notice windowblinds is only able to do the boarder and the titlebar. not the entire thing.

but a good try on stardocks part for people unable to upgrade.

Why?  It will work in XP.

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see the above post i quoted and my responce. there is still plenty of reason to upgrade.

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Well, svchost.exe on my comp (which holds the theme engine) was over 44mb when i used WindowBlinds (4.5.1)

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My svhost.exe only took 11MB here with WindowBlinds running (and with the Themes service turned off). You might want to check your svc. Try this, open a dos box and type tasklist /svc. You will see info about svchost.exe. My two instances of it are used for Dnscache and webclient :)

And for those who concern about performance and resource...

The performance on this is (on my laptop here) as good as your typical skin. Just requires that your video card support alpha transparency which anyone not running a prehistoric system should have no problem with.

I don't think any of us here still using 900Mhz processor and a build-in graphic card :p, do you? J/K

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very pretty, no doubt. How much extra CPU/Memory does such stuff take (I have never tried WB)?

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It depends on the skin you're using. If you use simple/static skins, memory usage will be very low maybe below 1MB (mine 504KB). If you use complex or an animated skins, the memory usage will be higher.

And as stated by Co_Co, CPU usage is 0%

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Oh the plus side, it doesn't appear to require a pixel shader, either. Good for people who want their desktop to look good but who only have (say) integrated graphics (think work machines). And very good for those people who have a 256Mb machine that they don't want to/can't upgrade.

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* Sorry if this news is already been posted before.

Developers of WindowBlinds reported that they have succesfully add Aero-Glass style titlebars support for Windows XP. This feature will available soon in WindowBlinds 5.

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Unfortunately it doesn't appear to blur what's underneath like LH does.

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It sure looks cool in a screenshot, but isn't this a significant drain on processing power?

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I will wait for the lawsuit MS files against WB. Looks gr8 though….

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WHAT?

If that was the case MS would've filed a lawsuit against Stardock back in 2001 for making WB able to use their own VSes in XP. Did it happen? No. In fact the opposite occured - they worked together.

I can see the same happening for Longhorn.

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