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It only allows you to select one color because the GPU is responsible for the hue of the texture of the windows. If you are using Aero basic, it is the same as using a Windows XP visual style..the color is hardcoded.

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That is the problem though. Instead of optimizing the code, one could just rely on the fact that hardware will become more powerful in the future. It is an excuse if there is a good example of one.

Just look at a DX9 video game that requires 128MB VRAM and then compare that to blur and basic 3D effects of W7 GUI. Which is more impressive? Blurring effects are not really that performance costly and neither is a basic 3D effect - I have seen these effects in games requiring Pixel Shader Model 1.4...

Well, there's only so much "optimizing the code" can do about image sizes. On a modern high-res display a single window can take up 10MB.

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Put your computer in Power Saver mode, now, unplug the power cable, the color now is reset to the default, that's not a bug??

Is the same thing....

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This is the exact same as with Vista, nothing new. By now the need for an Aero-capable video card has been present since Vista's launch a few years ago.

Even the most basic Start/Home Basic versions of Windows 7 are able to run an Aero-based theme (just no transparency), so this has nothing to do with product versions or upgrades.

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Even the most basic Start/Home Basic versions of Windows 7 are able to run an Aero-based theme (just no transparency)...

This is my complain, they DONT!

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There's a terrible bug (or not) in Windows 7, and that is the discrimination to those who does'nt have a powerfull videocard

lol... The video Card requirements to run Aero perfectly smoothly are quite low, even very old video cards can run it fine. Basically any OEM pc made today even the lowest end can run aero and so can most pc's. It's only discriminating against people who have *ancient* video cards.

A dx 9 card with pixel shader 2.0 support is hardly a "powerful card" I can't remember the vram requirement but it's quite low.

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lol... The video Card requirements to run Aero perfectly smoothly are quite low, even very old video cards can run it fine. Basically any OEM pc made today even the lowest end can run aero and so can most pc's. It's only discriminating against people who have *ancient* video cards.

A dx 9 card with pixel shader 2.0 support is hardly a "powerful card" I can't remember the vram requirement but it's quite low.

Anyway, the problem affects HomeBasic/Started too, and affect everyone when "Power Saver" is active and the cable unpluged

Please try that, and you will see than when you unplug the power cable, the color will reset (Just when is on "Not transparency")

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Almost any graphics card that can handle Aero can handle transparency. I have a bottom end integrated ATI gpu and it works fine. I think the key reason why you are not seeing the transparency is because you have the color intensity too far to the right. Try moving the slider to the left some more and that should do the trick.

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Home Basic does'nt have any transparency.... And for what I'm telling you, neither has support for colors

Did anyone try what I said? Put computer in Power saver mode and then unplug the cable BUG

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Home Basic does'nt have any transparency.... And for what I'm telling you, neither has support for colors

Did anyone try what I said? Put computer in Power saver mode and then unplug the cable BUG

Yes, but this is not a bug. This a feature by design. First, it should be noted Power Saver mode tries to do everything it can to minimize power by throttling the peak cpu output and gpu performance. So when you unplug the power cable, it disables Aero to save more power by reducing the work load on the hardware and therefore reducing the potential cooling from turning fan on, etc. Unless I really need to stretch my battery to last 1.5hrs, I usually just use Balanced mode when unplugged for the reason of having Aero.

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Home Basic is called Basic for a reason - it's Basic. :p

i.e. Lots of features are missing - absolutely on purpose.

The only reason you'd ever have Home Basic on a system is because the system in question simply cannot handle the features of Home Premium, which is essentially Media Center and the eye candy which comes with both Media Center and Aero Glass.

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Home Basic is called Basic for a reason - it's Basic. :p

i.e. Lots of features are missing - absolutely on purpose.

The only reason you'd ever have Home Basic on a system is because the system in question simply cannot handle the features of Home Premium, which is essentially Media Center and the eye candy which comes with both Media Center and Aero Glass.

I am not even sure why we are even talking about basic as if its going to be released to masses as in the case of Vista. Basic is only for limited distribution for certain developing markets where low end hardware exists (or something like that). But even netbooks won't be using this since they will have their own optimized version. For the most part, all future computers with Win7 installed on it will have Aero enabled by default, not only as a requirement that OEMs are required to meet, but by the fact that all graphics options in the market these days are fully capable of handling it.

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Yes, but this is not a bug. This a feature by design. First, it should be noted Power Saver mode tries to do everything it can to minimize power by throttling the peak cpu output and gpu performance. So when you unplug the power cable, it disables Aero to save more power by reducing the work load on the hardware and therefore reducing the potential cooling from turning fan on, etc. Unless I really need to stretch my battery to last 1.5hrs, I usually just use Balanced mode when unplugged for the reason of having Aero.

Totally agree.

The point in 'power saver' mode is to squeeze as much extra juice out of the battery as possible, turning of aero glass etc should be appreciated by the masses as a good use of the technology.

And as the post above me says, Home basic wont even be seen by most people as it's intended for developing countries. So mute point.

And finally... to be honest, This don't look that bad...

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Windows Vista brought us a brand new graphics subsystem driver model witch would take a standard GDI calls and translate that using the Directx 9 API in to a 3d layer witch we see on are screens with the transparency effects and all the zippy effects we see this was done by driver model WDDM 1.0 now in windows 7 the same thing hppens only in DX10 mode thus lowering the requirement on how much Ram is being used.

so what we see is a 3D effect and canot be done in any other shader format only 2.0 or above and yes we know some have seen blur effects and stuff done before in games and while those effects are decent for back in the day they are not the same type those effects were a bunch of 3d illusions to pull it off with shader 1.4 or lower only with DX9 did we start to have these effects done by the hardware purely in code and not some fake effect .

last and not least dont confuse a windows XP transparency effects done using GDI+ - overlays with how WPF witch containers WDDM and WDM to pull these compositing effects off they are not the same . the new graphics system and d river model was set in place to allow MS themselves and 3rd party apps to have more control over how things look and give you a much higher quality desktop experience and windows 7 only furthers that with the use of WDDM 1.1 driver model

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Totally agree.

The point in 'power saver' mode is to squeeze as much extra juice out of the battery as possible, turning of aero glass etc should be appreciated by the masses as a good use of the technology.

And as the post above me says, Home basic wont even be seen by most people as it's intended for developing countries. So mute point.

And finally... to be honest, This don't look that bad...

screenshot.jpg

Now than u unplug the cable, go to "Perzonalize" > "Color" and choose the color than you already have, its the same power saver but with the color than you already choose

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