Comments on: Easily Disable Win 7 or Vista’s Aero Before Running an Application (Such as a Video Game)

By: Thanks

Thanks — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:47 +0000

Thank you so much !

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:14:40 +0000

There’s is NO compatibility tab on the properties in Win7 64bit (RC).

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:04:11 +0000

For you virtualization weenies (like me), this works around the client screen re-draw issues within the VMware vSphere client running on Vista and Windows 7. Now if only VMware would FIX the client for real, so it doesn’t make all my other windows “ugly” while it’s running… [It'd be really cool to find a way to make this only affect the vSphere client.] Thanks Lowell!

By: Matt Fahrner

Matt Fahrner — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:34:15 +0000

Solved my problem with full screen PowerDVD (I only have a 64mb card, which is fine for general Aero, but would make full screen video choppy)…

By: Bruce Harr

Bruce Harr — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Thanks for this tip – I have tons of customers who will benefit from it!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:25:05 +0000

^^ will apply it tonight, as lately when playing WoW on vista-64 Ultimate SP1, i’ve geen getting appauling FPS when in raids. I have a nvidia 8800GTX, and on XP-32, i could happily play at 1650×1280, with all visual’s maxed out and still get 25-45fps when all hell is being let loose in a 25man raid. However now i seemm to get about 10fps if im lucky and thats when all effects are on low to medium settings

will repost if it fixes it

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:51:18 +0000

A lot of people run games in windows. I’m one of them. I already knew this, but I definitely don’t think some people looking to turn this off for windowed games is rare. It’s a useful tip.

Some games do automatically disable it even when windowed. WoW isn’t one of them.

By: PCgameRs

PCgameRs — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:15:34 +0000

good tip ! =) thx!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:02:53 +0000

This is a good tip. Despite aero effects being put on hold while running games and therefore not affecting performance, aero has still caused me a number of bugs in games regarding incorrect resolutions being displayed. I was having to manually turn off aero when i played most games otherwise i was getting the display shrunk into a corner of the screen or conversely was only able to see a quarter of the play area. I don’t no if this was also because i was playing through a digital tv via hdmi and tv resolutions caused problems but this tip has saved me a lot of hassle! Nice one!

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:39:58 +0000

HAHAHAHA! After reading this tip I instantly change my World of Warcraft shortcut to disable Aero…And now that I (accidentally) came to this page again…What do I see? Screenshot of WoW properties xDDDDDDDDD