Finally Got Aero Glass Back in Win 8.1
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
own agendas at the customer's expense.
The two things I like most about Aero Glass are that it makes it much easier to focus on the client area (where all the work is done), and the drop shadows help better differentiate multiple windows on the desktop.
After having helped test the betas, I've been testing the release intensively for a week now, with zero glitches.
It's donationware, and can be downloaded here:
http://www.glass8.eu/
There's an active discussion on this product here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170850-aero-glass-for-win81-11/
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
Configure The Windows 8 "To Work" Options
It's not "adware", but it's essentially "nagware" in that it will remind you via an occasional pop-up message and a desktop watermark that you may donate to the author to support the project's ongoing development. It may also pop up a debug logging
window, but I think that may be able to be disabled through a registry setting.
From what I've read in the forums, some find these "nag" reminders problematic, though when I first tried the software out early in its development cycle I found them easy to ignore. I was concentrating on whether it really
works - and it does.
By the way, you can easily test it out in a throwaway environment - for example a Virtual Machine, such as provided by VMware. I did.
Once you donate five or ten Euros you can get and save a "donation key" that's apparently tied to your disk drive serial number. After doing that all the reminders are stopped - it is silent and just works beautifully.
I find Aero Glass for Win 8.1 version 1.2.5 to be 100% stable. My system ran 27 days straight under hard use between the last two Windows Update cycles without a problem of any kind. The author seems keen on making it totally
bug-free.
By the way, it is still being developed. The author has currently got a beta test version of a GUI configuration tool out for testing and comments.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
Configure The Windows 8 "To Work" Options
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https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
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Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
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4. SuperDuper!
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Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
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Hi,
I finally got iphoto to open. I removed my old library of 2500+ pictures to the desk top and created a new library (after five hours of trying to get it to load my old library). Now I troed to imprt pictures from my old library and it is saying that the file could not be loaded because it is an unreadable file type or that the file does not contain valid data.... now what should I doHi Kim,
the steps you took seem like they are right, but let's go over them again to make sure.
Close iPhoto
Drag iPhoto Library folder from the Pictures folder to the desktop
Launch iPhoto and at the prompt, choose to create a new library
Name the new library
Go to File/add to library and navigate to the library on the desktop and choose it
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2. The files are corrupt
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