Anybody run vista's aero glass theme on their mini?

i'm thinking about getting a mini, but i want to be able to run vista's aero glass. i believe the video card is supported, but i wanted to hear about any personal experiences.

I'm running Vista Premium (on a separate partition w/bootcamp) on my Mac Mini 1.83 with 2 GB of memory with no problem at all. Aero glass, no problem.
Vista actually sees the GMA950 integrated graphics card as 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM, instead of 64.
Mac Mini 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Running Vista Premium w/bootcamp

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I really love the "Aero" glass theme that is in Windows Vista and Windows 7. I was wondering if it's possible to suggest this to a Mac OS developer or Apple? I know this is a copyright issue with Microsoft owning this trademark. But, please make this theme available in Mac OS. I love both operating systems equally, but Apple softwares, such as "Messages/iMessage", Final Cut Pro, Garageband, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, Logic Pro, etc. make me want to switch from Windows to Mac OS. It's too bad the "Aero" is proprietary to Microsoft.
Here is the link to the "Aero" glass theme I'm talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero
Please make this feature for future releases of Mac OS. Otherwise, I'm sticking to Mountain Lion. Please write back. Thanks!

I'm running Vista Premium (on a separate partition w/bootcamp) on my Mac Mini 1.83 with 2 GB of memory with no problem at all. Aero glass, no problem.
Vista actually sees the GMA950 integrated graphics card as 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM, instead of 64.
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CS5.02 w/MPE turns off Aero Glass

I have a new Dell Precision T5500 workstation(X5560 CPU, 12GB Ram, PNY Quadro 4000, Win7 Ultimate 64-bit) running CS5 MC. AE looks and works great. PPro CS5.02 loads and looks correct but, once a project has loaded with the Mercury Playback Engine(MPE) enabled, all Aero Glass effects for Window Color and Appearance get switched off. Resulting in what looks like the default Windows 7 Basic properties and color scheme(Baby Blue with no transparency).
PPro captures,edits and outputs fine. And once PPro is exited, the Win7 desktop, visually, returns to my "normal" saved Theme. While PPro is running, the Win7 Personalization page shows that my saved Theme is loaded. Clicking it's icon to reload the settings doesn't cause any visual changes. Selecting the Window Color icon brings up the Window Color and Appearance tool which has a message stating that Windows Aero is off, etc.
If I remove the Quadro 4000 entry from the cuda_supported_cards.txt file, essentially disabling the hardware MPE, Aero Glass stays on while PPro runs. Except now I have to render effects since Premiere is using the software MPE.
The NVidia driver is from 10/16/2010( 8.17.12.5993 ). Everything else on this machine(HW/SW) is up to date and is working great. I haven't been able to find any mention of this anomaly here or on other CS5 or NVidia related forums. Has anyone seen/heard of this? Is there somebody else using the Quadro 4000 with CS5?

Thanks, I checked out the search results of the link posted.
I grabbed and ran Microsoft's Mats_Run.aero.exe tool. Funny thing, even with Premiere running that tool still says there are no issues with my system. Plus I don't get a systray message saying something to the effect of "aero is turned off" like other folks report in the MS Answers forums when things like this happen. Anyway, like I said previously, I can live with this "feature" while I'm using PPro and so far with my hardware, my AE usage hasn't been effected.
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My Dell Vostro (running XP SP3) neither recognizes my iPad 2 nor my iPhone 4 correctly! I followed the troubleshooting guides and installed the latest iTunes. Both devices are recognised by my desktop PC running Vista using the exact same cable etc.

Hello all,
my Laptop (Dell Vostro - running XP SP3) neither recognizes my iPad 2 nor my iPhone 4!
Both devices are working correctly with my desktop PC running Vista with the same USB cable!
I followed trouble shooting guides, checked that the drivers are present, installed, removed and reinstalled the latest iTunes (in the correct order together with the other Apple software components) etc. but nothing works! The interesting thing is that when I plug the iPad or the iPhone in the laptop's usb-port for a second Windows correctly shows the devices either as iPad or iPhone in the "Device Manager" with an exclamation point !!! But then after a split second Windows allways switches the devices to Digital Camera and the correct iPad or iPhone disappears !!! => That is why I guess that this is a driver problem!
Does anybody have any idea what else I can try?
Is there a manual way to install the drivers for the iPad 2 or iPhone 4?
Many thanks for your ideas and suggestions
Edgar

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I have a laptop an hp dv6700, running vista the dvd drive is missing how do i get it back?

Greetings this is my problem?
I have a beautiful HP Laptop the dv6700 Series, running Vista, on this Computer i have a DVD Player, with my media center, and the drive.
Now the drive is missing, and now I can not burn anymore DVD's, or play any of them either can anyone help me find a solution to this issue please?
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Okay, let's check the following:
>> Do you see the DVD drive listed in "Computer" explorer? double click on it to open.
>> Do you see the DVD drive listed in the device manager??
(Click Start and type "device" in the search field, then select Device Manager >> check for CD/DVD drive listing.)
>> Is the DVD drive listed in the BIOS?
(Restart Your PC and start tapping F10 key, once you are in setup screen go to boot options, check for the listed devices)
also please download and run this program:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us
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well, it is easy. i just wish it to sync in a manner that i do not get frustrated with it. it just does not like to sync when i open up itunes on desktop to update apps when they have updates. i have got to revert to plugging in the phone and ipad for it to sync and update apps. if you read through the whole thing you would have found it out. all i am saying is that itunes 10.6.1 and ios 5.1 have bugs and issues that make it hard for a iphone and ipad user to sync and update apps. itunes is slow to open with windows 7 as well as i did not mention that before but i have mentioned it in my other forum posts.
summary:
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Try this one and let us know whether it worked:
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Now released for Windows 8.1 by a good guy who knows what many people want on their Win 8.1 desktop. Thank God for 3rd party developers who understand what people want and need, rather than the greedy managers at Microsoft who push their
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After having helped test the betas, I've been testing the release intensively for a week now, with zero glitches.
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http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170850-aero-glass-for-win81-11/
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Windows7 upgrade on hp laptops running vista home basic

hi..
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ref:: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579(WS.10).aspx
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No manufacturer has announced a free upgrade program for systems running Vista Basic. All the offers are for Home Premium/Business/Ultimate. HP and other manufacturers aren't obligated to even offer these free upgrades. We expect them and welcome them,but there is no obligation.
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Windows without Aero Glass? its disgusting!
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I remember MS-Dos text mode applications like ‘Norton Commander’, ‘Norton Utilities’, ‘Dos Navigator’ and much more, presenting solid graphics (simple solid color as background, and white text in the front, using (some times) some characters as icons and
smooth animations for dialogs. – I remember ansi.sys as well!)
Windows 8 and 8.1 has the same graphics, same as DOS! except the solid background, which replaced by a gradient.
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Even in windows 95, 98 and XP, I used to change skins and themes with skinning softwares (like Windowblinds).
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We're ordering new laptops at my company and were so pleased with our recent T61P purchases that we are considering X300's for more portable devices. However, I was surprised to see that Vista x64 is not one of the installed OS options for the X300 (unlike the X61s where it is available).
Is anyone running Vista x64 or (better still) Server 2008 x64 on their X300?   I see that on the X300 driver download page there are some Vista 64 drivers available... are they enough? Any gotcha's?
Thanks in advance!

jtimouri wrote:
I am interested though other experiences with installing Vista 64, or some explanation of what it is about Server 64 that makes it better.
vista 64-bit installs just like vista 32-bit.   lenovo has all of the drivers available online or you can use TVSU to install them automatically.   vista works much better when installed clean so if you can get a hold of the "anytime upgrade" media from microsoft then you can follow this installation guide to cleanly install vista 64 using your vista 32 key and activation.
vista 64-bit is better because it supports more memory, is more stable, and is anecdotally 10~15% faster than 32-bit.   however, since vista 64 has to emulate a 32-bit environment using an emulation layer called "WoW" (windows-on-windows), 32-bit apps can in some cases run faster under vista 32 than they do under vista 64.   eventually all apps will be 64-bit native so what you're currently seeing is a transition period much like we had when windows went from 16-bit to 32-bit in the transition from 3.11 to 95.
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