Comments on: Hack to Enable Windows Aero in Vista Home Basic Edition

By: S-Dev

S-Dev — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:12:47 +0000

PEOPLE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!

By: Iknew=it

Iknew=it — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Well is anyone going to publish some screen shots like that girl curious asked (?) because this feature won’t work, we need help and proof. Thanks.

By: Curious

Curious — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:27:19 +0000

This alteration still does not work. And it’s pretty silly to pay $70.+++ for premium just for the glass browser when HB should have it anyway. Please someone show steps for real in screenshots. Press [fn + prt sc] then paste into MS Paint, upload to image shack for free to show us how to over power the great microsoft ripoff. Thanks so much.

By: vgamesx1

vgamesx1 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:43:29 +0000

Thanks, reinstalled vista HB and didn’t have the aero glass effect on windows any more. This relly helped a lot.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:49 +0000

Just in case, I have a screenshot “http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3935/valuesvistaaero.jpg”

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:16:29 +0000

This feature doesn’t work. I could not find a “Date” to change, only a “Data” value set to change, but those have already been labeled as 1 and 2. Any chance you can publish a screenshot to where to “edit” a this “date” for [name]“Compositión” [type] dword: [data]00000001 (1) and [name]“Composition Policy” [type] dword: [data]00000002 (2) Please?

By: sam

sam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:15:18 +0000

i also tried it but in command prompt it displayed access is denied please help me out

By: Oguzhan

Oguzhan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:56:52 +0000

The best solution is: “Install Vista Home Pre” Come on, it’s not a big deal. You can download the Vista from torrent and activate using patches in Mydig.

By: verminw

verminw — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:57:59 +0000

i did everything that was told to do, but i didn’t work. So i did what it said on the comments [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM]
“Composition”=dword:00000001
“CompositionPolicy”=dword:00000002
save as name.reg and import it, but then it tells me that it will restore over the password DWM. and it will eliminate all the values and sub passwords of this password (DWM). will it eliminate any of my data? or will it delete anything? or will it just do it and work? any answers.

By: kedar

kedar — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:18:41 +0000

CRAP, WASTE FUCK

By: karan

karan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:24:34 +0000

t 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.

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.

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.

Remember, this hack still requires you to have hardware capable of running Aero (in other words, a good graphics card), and don’t go to Microsoft expecting support if things go wrong.

By: doxxy

doxxy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:58:23 +0000

this works really good although i got it from a different site. its alot more complicated than it should be and all you really get is the ability to change to color of the open windows. you dont get any other extra stuff like enviro999 said. it does make it different colors instead of that ugly light blue.
alos you people that say it doent work the only thing that changes is the ability to go into control panel>appearence and personalization>personalization>window color and appearence. you really dont get enything else

By: Poseidon

Poseidon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:15:27 +0000

Wooot, danke

Besitze Vista Home Premium 64 Bit, endlich hab ich meine Aero-Benutzeroberfläche

THX

By: Teegan

Teegan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:08:22 +0000

Does not work. Thanks for nothing.

By: Enviro999

Enviro999 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:09:21 +0000

In some cases, like with me, I had Aero on home basic already. It just depends on if your computer is “Vista Ready”. It isn’t a hack. Also, the whole process up above is useless. Just go to classic view in the colors and apperence and select Windows Vista Standard. The picture will show the Vista Basic Theme, but you get Aero, No hack. But, you really can’t call it Aero because it doesn’t have transparency, Flip 3D, the little things at the bottom when you float over the tabs, and the really cool animations.

By: White Hawk

White Hawk — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:45:53 +0000

Adam, nobody who spells ‘you’ in that manner has a right to call bull on the aspersions I have cast on the level of intellect demonstrating by the average poster… but I digress.

It would appear that despite this hack having previously worked for me, it no longer appears to work for anybody else – perhaps as a result of patching, service packs, etc…

It is still possible to install dreamscene for other versions of Vista, however, by downloading the specific DLLs through BitTorrent. Search using your favourite torrent tracker, but do exercise the usual cautions regarding malware/viruses…

I shall test this method again the next time I have access to a (*shudder*) Vista Basic installation.