Yorak Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Other than the square corners, nothing about Aero Glass in Windows 8 appears to be any different from Windows 7. It appears bigger than the default theme in Windows 7, but perhaps having the buttons squared as well as the window borders just gives it that illusion. Actually I love the fact that they squared everything. I hope it stays like that. I hate rounded borders on anything. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Actually I love the fact that they squared everything. I hope it stays like that. I hate rounded borders on anything. Agree 100%. I hate, hate, hate rounded corners. Mac OS X is the only OS I know of where they don't look like crap. I really hope the squares are here to stay. I'm going to hate it if they bring back the rounded corners by RTM. And, as I pointed out in my own topic, I really like the improvements they made to Windows Basic. It was horrible in Vista and 7, but it looks great in 8. And it even takes advantage of the DWM! I would actually willingly use it over Aero Glass, since there is no performance penalty anymore and I really like its minimalism look. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I couldn't get Windows 8 to run properly on my laptop... Couldn't get the video driver to install properly... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 and you go to the settings for them where lol As easy as 12345 :p Open Weather Application Hover over the bottom left area Click Settings On right charm will open , choose weather settings Change to Deg Celsius :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jme621 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 As easy as 12345 :p Open Weather Application Hover over the bottom left area Click Settings On right charm will open , choose weather settings Change to Deg Celsius :) when i click on the blue box that says weather it doesnt do anything, am i missing how you open it? or is mine broke? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 when i click on the blue box that says weather it doesnt do anything, am i missing how you open it? or is mine broke? beneath that is "Weather Preferences" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChuang Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I wonder where the metro ui background is stored. The green is not my cup of tea Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh the Nerd Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 when i click on the blue box that says weather it doesnt do anything, am i missing how you open it? or is mine broke? Make sure your resolution is 1024x768 or higher. Metro apps require this. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 As easy as 12345 :p Open Weather Application Hover over the bottom left area Click Settings On right charm will open , choose weather settings Change to Deg Celsius :) oh wow , i feel stupid now :blush: didn't know that work differently on different application/pages Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrum Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Here's my screenshots: http://expertvista.com/2011/windows-8-wdp-stranger/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594317940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jme621 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Make sure your resolution is 1024x768 or higher. Metro apps require this. Oh, maybe this is the issue, was testing it on netbook, thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted September 17, 2011 Author Share Posted September 17, 2011 oh wow , i feel stupid now :blush: didn't know that work differently on different application/pages BTW u can also do "windows key + i" to open up settings of any metro app Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeke009 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Other than the square corners, nothing about Aero Glass in Windows 8 appears to be any different from Windows 7. One big difference is that Aero works in vm's now! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jygoro Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 In Dxdiag it says aero is working with WDDM 1.1 but my graphics card is old (Radeon HD3450). Is there some graphics card that works with the new WDDM 1.2? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 One big difference is that Aero works in vm's now! Aero Glass has been supported in VMware Fusion since v3, so both Vista and 7 machines could have it. The improved Windows Basic theme uses the DWM, though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuto Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 In Dxdiag it says aero is working with WDDM 1.1 but my graphics card is old (Radeon HD3450). Is there some graphics card that works with the new WDDM 1.2? My geforce 560 ti works with WDDM 1.2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerax Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 I wonder where the metro ui background is stored. The green is not my cup of tea In the shsxs.dll. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jygoro Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 My geforce 560 ti works with WDDM 1.2 Ok thanks. It seems there is no WDDM 1.2 for my graphics card then. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thartist Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Lets flaunt our screenshots :p And its my request to you all that lets have this thread even for the beta , rc and then later stages, it will be nice to see how Windows 8 developed through time in this thread. bogas04, you absolutely have to tell me where did you get that clock picture!! :woot: my brother has been looking for that picture in a desktop size for long and could never find it!! Is it one of Win8devpreview backgrounds now?! (thanks) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594318954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
exodan Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594319324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted September 18, 2011 Author Share Posted September 18, 2011 bogas04, you absolutely have to tell me where did you get that clock picture!! :woot: my brother has been looking for that picture in a desktop size for long and could never find it!! Is it one of Win8devpreview backgrounds now?! (thanks) This wallpaper is from Windows Personalization Gallery PS : My desktop has horizontally inverted picture :p (i do that on purpose , i like objects/source of light of right side) thartist 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594319808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted September 22, 2011 Author Share Posted September 22, 2011 The dark mode :D Obi-Wan Kenobi, JimmyJamesRoS and subcld 3 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594329614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 The dark mode :D *snip* my my ..... that is astonishing! subcld 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594329944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted September 23, 2011 Veteran Share Posted September 23, 2011 This wallpaper is from Windows Personalization Gallery PS : My desktop has horizontally inverted picture :p (i do that on purpose , i like objects/source of light of right side) Here's the link to the theme's page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/echoes-of-the-past-theme Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594333188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalalalalalala Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 this is my version... it looked better before i started changing it more to help some dude who asked me for X hex like alt+tab thing of course i found new hex codes and then i changed it to pink for my hex code tests but im lazy to fix it, but it doesnt look that bad subcld 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1025948-flaunt-your-windows-8-screenshots-here/page/2/#findComment-594334766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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