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My Windows Vista cant view tranperanly n the latest tweak vista cant open with this build of windows...

pls help me

To force transparency do the following:

1. Click Start, Run.

2. Type "regedit" (without the quotes).

3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft

4. Create a key called DWM.

5. Inside of that key, create a new DWORD value called EnableMachineCheck, and set it to 0

6. Create another DWORD called Blur, and set that to 0

7. Create another DWORD called Animations and set that to 0.

If you force this glass will most probably run slow since your graphics card isn't fully supported. If it runs fine then you might want to add blur effects and animations. Just set your Blur DWORD to 1 and your animations DWORD to 1.

Hope this helps.

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u guys no need to find any patch... i dy know the way to enable DWM in 5270

old registry:

HKEY_local_machine/Software/Microsoft/DWM

-Animations (dword) (1)

-AnimationsShiftKey (dword) (1)

-Blur (dword) (1)

-Glass (dword) (1)

-UseAlternateButtons (dword) (1)

-CheckMachine (dword) (0)

New registry key:

HKEY_current_user/Software/Microsoft/DWM

-Animations (dword) (1)

-AnimationsShiftKey (dword) (1)

-Blur (dword) (1)

-Glass (dword) (1)

-UseAlternateButtons (dword) (1)

-UseMachineCheck (dword) (0)

after add in those key...jus restart n u will DWM...

pls take note tat CheckMachineTime changed to UseMachineCheck

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u guys no need to find any patch... i dy know the way to enable DWM in 5270

old registry:

HKEY_local_machine/Software/Microsoft/DWM

-Animations (dword) (1)

-AnimationsShiftKey (dword) (1)

-Blur (dword) (1)

-Glass (dword) (1)

-UseAlternateButtons (dword) (1)

-CheckMachine (dword) (0)

New registry key:

HKEY_current_user/Software/Microsoft/DWM

-Animations (dword) (1)

-AnimationsShiftKey (dword) (1)

-Blur (dword) (1)

-Glass (dword) (1)

-UseAlternateButtons (dword) (1)

-UseMachineCheck (dword) (0)

after add in those key...jus restart n u will DWM...

pls take note tat CheckMachineTime changed to UseMachineCheck

CHRIST does this forum need a spell checker...

Firstly, You shouldn't even be using it if your not an official tester. I could even barely understand what you posted. Also, there is a reason why your card isnt spitting out glass, its probably not a DirectX 9 native video card, and its probably a crappy 32MB onboard..

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CHRIST does this forum need a spell checker...

Firstly, You shouldn't even be using it if your not an official tester. I could even barely understand what you posted. Also, there is a reason why your card isnt spitting out glass, its probably not a DirectX 9 native video card, and its probably a crappy 32MB onboard..

sry...i know my english not so good...n im from other country...

im vista beta tester...my card could not enable glass bcoz im using non LDDM graphics card...not DirectX 9 ok? n im using 128MB ATI 9200SE...not onboard 32MB

if u don like tis thread...u can jus keep silent...don try to post something else at here

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sry...i know my english not so good...n im from other country...

im vista beta tester...my card could not enable glass bcoz im using non LDDM graphics card...not DirectX 9 ok? n im using 128MB ATI 9200SE...not onboard 32MB

if u don like tis thread...u can jus keep silent...don try to post something else at here

hm, sorry about that then, you might be able to get glass using those reg hacks, might not be pretty, but its worth a try.

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CHRIST does this forum need a spell checker...

Firstly, You shouldn't even be using it if your not an official tester. I could even barely understand what you posted. Also, there is a reason why your card isnt spitting out glass, its probably not a DirectX 9 native video card, and its probably a crappy 32MB onboard..

wow from your posts, you seem like a really nice and friendly person.

if this person is or is not an offical tester, why the hell do you care?

usually when i do not understand something, i move on, not make nasty comments.

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CHRIST does this forum need a spell checker...

Firstly, You shouldn't even be using it if your not an official tester. I could even barely understand what you posted. Also, there is a reason why your card isnt spitting out glass, its probably not a DirectX 9 native video card, and its probably a crappy 32MB onboard..

Perhaps a grammar checker as well.

'Isnt' isn't a word. 'Its' is a possesive form of it. I'm sure you meant it's - the contraction of it is. You should change the order of the words 'even' and 'barely' for better clarity.

Sorry, just trying to use the same measure.

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The taskbar can be made transparent with transbar.

And the whole windows can be made transparent - but not just the titlebar.

WB5 does just the toolbar. If you convert a .msstyle of the theme you want to a wb theme, you could probably mod it and make it the perfect tranmsparent. Plus, there's hardly a noticable speed difference. You can even put the window over a visualizer in iTunes and it won't slow down, it's quite fun.

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