Comments on: Disable Aero on Windows 7 or Vista

By: Audun

Audun — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:47:28 +0000

I only disabled it because it’s really annoying.

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:04:07 +0000

Running games with Aero on in the background actually slows down the performance. If you run fullscreen games you can actually see Windows switching off Aero before going full screen. You can try alt-tab’ing and see it get turned back on

For people that for example play WoW in a Window you can see for yourself that it slows performance. in the WoW directory, right mouse click on wow.exe, turn off desktop composition in compatibility and try wow in windowed mode. See the performance, now turn it back on and run it in a window. Notice the performance decrease?

Running a Windowed game with Aero on slows down perfomance. Full-screen games should/will auto turn off Aero theme when going full screen and turning it back on when exiting it.

By: DXS101

DXS101 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:58:48 +0000

for the people that think turnin off aero don’t do anything your a retard ha,
also no one really cares about your pc specs like really?
And windows rating sucks dick u can have a quad core 1tb HDD with highest transer rate and a quad core video card. With 1 gig of ram and get a ratin of 3.0 cause it just goes off the lowest rating doesn’t average out.

By: Reginald Perrin

Reginald Perrin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:45:42 +0000

WARNING: IF you select High Contrast Black (in Vista), it also changes your print settings. There is still no fix for this. Try printing some simple text in wordpad. It is a nightmare. Win95, Win 98 and XP do not have this conflict.

By: wtf

wtf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:28:51 +0000

@ Like ubr, whats the matter with you?

By: madmanjohn

madmanjohn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:10:58 +0000

ive never been a dedicated follower of fashion- yeah it looks slick, for a minute, and then i get sick of trying to figure out what im trying to see behind the window im in. There are significant improvements to be gained in ANY AGE COMPUTER by disabling aero. I work with computers 12 hours a day, and the only thing i see aero being any good for is your optometrist will think its wonderful in about 3 years of higher than normal useage.

ms should spend more time wiser on less frills and more performance, each one of those areo themes carries its own sounds, its own graphics, not to mention all the stuff it takes to run it. frankly id rather have the crap off my hard drive- just that much less crap to index and run thats unneccesary.

truth be known, about 60% of what comes in windows is unneccesary- if i want something, ill choose my own app.

By: Neo

Neo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:29:48 +0000

Aero is such a hog on lower end gfx cards, but shouldn’t pose a problem if the video card is GTX275-ish / ATI HD4870×2-ish. I have HD 4350 in my system, which is woefully inadequate to suffice a full-fledged Aero theme with flip3D, let alone running Quake Wars in windowed mode. I personally feel that I don’t miss Aero when I’m using Windows Classic in Vista; it’s stylish enough for me. I toggle off Aero when I intend to run games or other gfx intensive apps.

By: LIKe ubr

LIKe ubr — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:02:12 +0000

LOL, people getting 3.0 on there average computer score in windows. THATS WHY, disabling aero on that will help. But with me, my average is 5.9, and i have dual gtx 280 and a quad core and 6gb of DDR3 ram so it really wont do anything for me.

By: Relapse

Relapse — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:04:18 +0000

I turned aero off and went to vista basic theme and noticed a huge speed improvement on my laptop

By: india

india — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:36:23 +0000

bla!! never got the hype over it.. how to get rid of it completely? it never interested me. i have all my visuuals adn themes turned off anyway. dont even pay attention to that stuff ..*shurgs*