http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Enable Vista Areo in Windows Vista Home Basic en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:30:36 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2835 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:13:45 +0000 Antman 2835@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yeah no worries. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2834 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:11:59 +0000 supermansghost 2834@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@Antman:</p> <p>You are right... I didn't realize it was a direct copy/paste job. That's definitely not cool.</p> <p>Guess I should check before replying... </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2833 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:11:04 +0000 michael 2833@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I did indeed copy this article. I will in future give credit. ;). Hence how I learn things. :P Sorry :(</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2832 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:08:05 +0000 Antman 2832@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>That wasn't really my point. If you're gonna copy and paste an entire article from somewhere else you could at least credit the original poster. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2831 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:04:52 +0000 supermansghost 2831@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Antman,</p> <p>That tip has been around on every site everywhere for about a year now, so there's no saying who first figured it out.</p> <p>Personally it didn't work for me. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2830 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:59:43 +0000 Antman 2830@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Michael, did you get your tip verbatim from this article, or did you write another artical five or more months ago and this guy copied you?</p> <p><a rel=nofollow href="http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/enable-vista-aero-in-windows-vista-home-basic/">http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/enable-vista-aero-in-windows-vista-home-basic/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2819 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:29:36 +0000 Scott 2819@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>This truly is a great workaround and Article worthy. Let's hope some members with Home Basic try this fix and report back. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2818 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:16:36 +0000 michael 2818@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I believe Aero is not included in HB by default because apparently it's one of the goodies you pay extra money for.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2817 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:08:37 +0000 Antman 2817@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Wow! If that's all people need to do then why on earth isn't Aero included with Basic in the first place? Great tip Michael.</p> <p>On an unrelated topic I'd just like to say that after I finally managed to get my XP Pro/Vista Business dual-boot configuration working a few months ago I've used Vista only two or three times. I find XP to be quicker for every task and I can live without Aero if it means I can get things done quicker. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/enable-vista-areo-in-windows-vista-home-basic#post-2786 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:38:17 +0000 michael 2786@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Microsoft decided that The Aero interface would not be available for Windows Vista Home Basic users. I personally dislike the new trend to offer several versions of a program with different functionality naming them basic, premium and ultimate. It confuses consumers who have enough troubles to work with the operating system less alone deciding which of the many versions of Windows Vista would suit their needs.</p> <p>It is apparently not a big problem to enable the Vista Aero interface in Windows Vista Home Basic even though it is officially not included in that version. All you need to do is to change the values of two registry keys and restart Windows Vista afterwards. Open the registry by pressing Windows + R, typing regedit and hitting enter afterwards.</p> <p>Navigate to the key Hkey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ DWM \ and change the value of the entry Composition to 1 and the value of CompositionPolicy to 0. </p> <p>Now you can select the Aero interface by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Personalize from the menu. Switch to Colors and Appearance and click on Classic Appearance Properties.. and choose Windows Vista Aero from the menu.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p>