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[Krad]

1. I work at a company and I am in control of an msdn/ Gold partner licence. I am allowed to use and have activated my windows vista 5270.

2. I got a dell 700m with onboard graphics... I have applied the tweak and all is well except the games. I am guessing the hardware check disables the scaning of the hardware totally, because when i go to run a game, it says i need to have at least 16m colors to play. There is no right click option to play with these settings.

Does anyone know how to circumvent this issue. I like glass and want to play spider solitare!

is there a registry switch that forces 32bit graphics?

My temp solution-

Enable UseMachineCheck logoff, then log back in to play games. and vice versa.

[killtoskate1217]

Windowsblinds can make the vista effect on XP. But not that reg. tweak, and not standing on your head. kthx

[xspazx]

Guide to viewing the aero experience the basic reason that microsoft is still working on this os.

besides all that crap posted above heres how to get glass enabled on all machines of a lesser breed works on all video cards / processor / ram combinations in all machines built in lets say the last 3-4 years to be safe.

>install vista (of course it won't work on xp anyone with an actual msdn invite should know that)

>next make sure your video card drivers are updated your gonna have to go online to find these vista might not recognize your hardware

>now right click the blank desktop

>go to: Personalize

>go to: Change theme

>go to: Classic

>you'll see why later it looks ugly for a few min. but trust me do it.

>Right click the taskbar

>customize startmenu

>find the show/hide run option select show (steps 4 5 6 included cuz it's prob. good to have run showing anyway)

>type "regedit" into run's text box

>click run

>go to: hkey_current_user -> software -> Microsoft

> now go to: edit -> New -> Key

>name the key (in all caps) DWM

>right click anywhere in the right pane except the word at the top

> go to: New -> DWORD

>name the DWORD UseMachineCheck

>now right click this DWORD

> go to: Modify

> make sure data value is set to "0" as in the numeral zero

> click the close button in the top right hand corner kinda looks like a highlighted red x

> enable aero theme

> oh no it didn't work on my machine!

> switch between aero and classic till it does!!!

>still doesn't work

>Resart

>now just to let you know it's gonna be really slow on some machines

>the best way to view glass go buy an nvidia 6200 vga capable graphics card or better

>up your ram if you like 1gb+ works best

>new processor maybe...

>it's up to you

>i bid you ado

>oh and stop downloaded pirated versions of build 5270 damn!

[Darkdashing]

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..

assume much?