Make Vista Home Basic becoming Home Premium!

Y_Shun

10 May 08, 16:57

1) Enable Aero Theme
Start -> regedit -> and startup the Registery Editor

Find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" then "Software" then "Microsoft" then "Windows" and then "DWM".

Double click on "Composition" type "1" in the "Value data" field and click on the "OK" button.

Double click on "CompositionPolicy" type "2" in the "Value data" field and click on the "OK" button.

Close the Registery Editor.

Start -> cmd -> and startup the Command Prompt

Type in "net stop uxsms" and press enter

Then type in "net start uxsms" and press enter.

Close the command prompt.

2) Visual Task Tips

3) TopDesk

4) Vista Glazz

Alucard101

11 May 08, 00:33

Good find,any other changes other than visual?

Liangtai22

11 May 08, 00:48

cannot leh got system error 5 in cmd after second line

Y_Shun

11 May 08, 01:04

pai seh typo here

Type in "net stop uxsms" and press enter

Y_Shun

11 May 08, 01:05

For me, I only did 1) and 3)...

kenn3th

11 May 08, 09:24

Alternative u can try this:

Those with Home Basic Fret Not!
Make It Behave Like Home premium with these softwares

Applications needed:
VisualTaskTips - Thumbnail view of the windows in the taskbar.

Taskbar Shuffle - No hotkey, no extra steps, rearrange the programs on your

Windows taskbar by simply... well, dragging and dropping them! Neat concept, huh?

Taskbar Tools

TopDesk - FLIP 3D and Alt+Tab Alternative to Vista. Home Basic just got better

Enable Aero (NOT Glass) in Home Basic

Regedit:
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM/

Composition = 1
CompositionPolicy = 2

Right click Command Prompt and run as admin:

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

it's quite useful for people who want Aero Interface in vista basic but without the transparent effects.

After Installing and following the tweaks you should get.

To Get The Glass + Aero Effect

you will need to install

1)Windowfx enhanced : http://rapidshare.com/files/18037021/WindowFX_Enhanced-latest_FRESH.zip

and

2)Vistaglazz:
http://www.download.com/VistaGlazz/3000-2341_4-10671200.html

Most are freeware so it's free, but use it at your own risk.

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