Aero Glass 1.3 For Windows 8

Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x This utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames.

• Apply glass look to windows borders
• Blur the content behind the borders to improve UI experience
• Change amount of transparency in Control panels directly
• Change inactive windows borders color
• Skin windows borders (add glow, shadows etc.) without changing Windows theme
• Fully native including MSStyle themes and DWM API compatibility
• Low resources usage

Glass look

• Your windows will be rendered with transparent borders. This look allows you to see what is behind the border. The key element is the blurring of content behind the glass borders to prevent it from being too clear and disturbing. The result is very smart window border!

Fully native

• The utility is completely integrated into Desktop Window Manager without breaking any system protection or modifying system files. All rendering is done via native Direct3D device. Any colorization settings adjusted in Windows Control Panels are respected. Use color intensity slider to adjust the amount of the transparency. No custom skinning engine used. Due to the native nature of this utility your Windows theme is composited together with the glass effect. All features controlled through DWM API (e.g. DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow or DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea) are supported including the taskbar or custom Start menu blur effect.

Low resources usage

• This library tries to utilize all DWM resources as much as possible to minimize RAM and VRAM usage. No redundant objects are created, no background service is running. The result is light-weight library which behaves exactly in the same way as Aero Glass in Windows 7 did. No performance degradation!

Theme your windows

• You can change the look of your windows borders completely without touching your Windows theme or using unsigned theme. This allows you to bring back several effects such as window shadow, caption glow effect, rounded borders or simply change the appearance of caption buttons. You just modify single bitmap in your favorite image editor and everything will look as you want!

What's new in this version:

• internal changes to be consistent with Aero Glass for Win8.1 code
• fixes to allow on-the-fly preview from prepared GUI application
• CustomThemeResource settings name changed to CustomThemeAtlas

Download: Aero Glass 1.3 For Windows 8 | 1.7 MB (Open Source)
Download: Aero Glass 1.2.1 For Windows 8.1 | 1.8 MB
View: Aero Glass Homepage | Release Notes