Thanks for the reply. That explains what I am also experiencing with Windowsblinds losing transparency. Bummer, I didnt expect Aero features to work completely, but I figured with the same basic OS kernel and the same hardware I wouldnt lose features in WinFX and WB upgading to Vista.
Yeah, if this was a desktop, I would just upgrade the card (Wintel's goal anyway). But, this is a Tablet PC. I expected to not have Aero - I am fine with that, but I mistakenly thought I would have the same features with the same hardware on the newer OS that I had on the older one. I may just put the Tablet back to XP and upgrade my XP Media Center at home to Vista instead - although I like what MS did with the Tablet features in Vista. Hmmmmm... decisions...
My Gateway M275 running WinXP (Intel 82852/82855 Video) used to handle transparency effects very nicely. Upon upgrading to Vista, I expected to not be able to use the Aero flip and such, but I was surprised to find that WB can longer render transparency or blur effects. I am guessing this is a limitation of the Vista driver - is there any known way to get these back? I dont care about the Aero features much, but I would like to be able to run my WB skins that use transparency.
After upgrading to Vista, in WinFX, under performance advice, I get "Your drivers report they fully support the APIs required by WindowFX, but the registry appears to have this disabled" Is there a way to override this registry setting? I know I probably cant run Aero, but I would at least like to have the same functionality I had in WindowsXP. I also am unable to display any of the transparency features in WindowBlinds that I had in XP.
I have to agree with jaximflash. This is a private matter between the airlines and their customers. The FCC, as a government regulatory agency, has no authority to get into "comfort" issues with private businesses. If there is no technical interference issue, then their job is done. Yes, the market has spoken - and I agree with them, but it is the job of the private airlines listen and to regulate what their customers can do on their planes for the comfort and well-being of their custo
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Its funny, just a few weeks ago a professor at school mentioned that becoming a MS partner was the step before being absorbed. Let's hope he was wrong. Great Job guys!
There are good and bad aspects to Apple/MACs. The good is that they completely control what hardware can go in one and with a limited range of hardware available, they can achieve greater stability. The bad, or course is the limited range of hardware AND software available. No object Desktop of for MAC being the greatest drawback. OSX was a great move. Even more stability and harware accelerated desktop. Windows users still have a couple of years to wait for that. The whole th
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Maybe I just have no taste, but if I worked for Goodyear, I would appreciate the theme - it's a cool improvement over the standard windows interface - even if its not as cool as some of the stuff available here. I think its great seeing some people starting to see the commercial value to all this skinning stuff. Especially DesktopX - that utility has some powerful possibilities for commercial use. Congrats Stardock
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You are exactly right about a lack of creativity today. I don't think it is all about creative vs. minimalist. I have seem some very creative minimalistic skins. There's nothing that says a small daily use type skin couldn't have a throbber animation or fancy animated mouseover buttons or just a really creative look. I do think what we have seen is an evolution of skinning. At first, when skinning was new, authors really pushed what could be done with tools like WB. The results were brilliant, b
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