Re: How to enable full Aero in LH 4074?

In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: WindowsNeptune

First of all you need some decent 2003 era hardware or an old virtualization software (VMware 7.1.4 should be ok)
=> I could never get this working in a newer version or when the VM was in VMware 6/7 compatibility mode.
When using VMware you have to install that driver pack first indeed.

Here are some commands I use to enable full aero glass (in combination with this I also use the MILExplorer registery key set to 1)
You can copy them in notepad and save as a bat file:

@echo off
%systemdrive%\windows\i386\sbctl.exe start
rundll32 %systemdrive%\windows\system32\uxdesk.dll,DwmStartComposition
%systemdrive%\windows\i386\sbctl.exe stop
tskill explorer.exe
%systemdrive%\windows\i386\sbctl.exe start

Maybe you wonder why I start & stop sbctl.exe prior to starting it again, well this is for fixing the broken glass border around the windows. Otherwise the lower border part would only be a shadow and there was no glass texture (when using the modified BOFH aero theme).

Well, thank you for your help, but it still doesn't work.
Maybe I should install VMware 7 and try again.