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Windows 8 is pig ugly!
marlman
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Just updated one of my computers to Windows 8. I wanted to try it out.
Everything running ok but beware it takes a lot of getting used to.
But the main thing that hits me is how ugly it all looks. Who in their right mind decided to get rid of Aero and Glass?
I know there are a few workarounds but still not the same still I suppose I will get used to it.
Everything running ok but beware it takes a lot of getting used to.
But the main thing that hits me is how ugly it all looks. Who in their right mind decided to get rid of Aero and Glass?
I know there are a few workarounds but still not the same still I suppose I will get used to it.
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Undoubtedly under the hood it will have improvements, but looks wise it certainly seems a step back from Windows 7.
I don't think Classic Shell gives you back the Aero Glass theme, does it?
That's what the OP mentioned.
Well I seem to be using Aero Glass right now. Classic Shell gives you a huge array of customization settings and that is one of many.
Can't guarantee that everything works as in Windows 7 because I skipped pretty well straight from XP to 8 but all the main things mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Aero Glass seem to work, even the drag to half-screen, and shake to minimize all other windows kind of things. Window and start menu borders etc. can have their colour anything you like via standard control panel personalization settings.
You can even visit the new Start Screen with a single click, if you really must - or better still access all the Apps via the restored Start button and a cool "Apps" menu button right next to the Programs menu button. Apps will sticky onto the Start menu too, if you use them.
Aero is the rendering system from Vista and 7 (which is still present in the background in 8), but 'Aero Glass' is the particular theme that gives you transparent blurred window borders, and a properly transparent taskbar, and most importantly, a shadow round the window border that makes it stand out from the desktop and other windows.
No screenshot of Classic Shell on Win8, that I have seen has shown that
If it could give me that I'd install it in an instant, even though I don't personally miss the start menu.
Do you remember what the problems with Windows ME were, because visual appearance wasn't one of them.
ME had serious stability and reliability issues. Whatever issues can be levelled at Windows 8, that is not one of them.
No, the window borders are opaque, although the Start Menu is semi-transparent and so is the taskbar. But you can have them any colour and intensity you like to make them stand out. The options are Full Glass, smoked glass or Aero and I can see now why none are called Aero Glass. I read somewhere that Microsoft took out or killed part of the code.
The other Aero features seem to be there though.
Using it at the office poses no problems, It's quite easy to whip around it with a mouse once you have it sussed..
Can't say it's anyway 'Ugly' though, I don't notice aero or no-aero on a daily basis I doubt many do in reality, unless they are specifically looking for it.
http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php
You may as well stay with Windows 7!
Why didn't they just make it look and work like windows 7 and have the Kiddie pleaser interface as an option for them to select if they wanted to have no taste?
Ah now I would have haggled with the salesman and said "Install Windows 7 or give me a discount so that I can!"
MS decided Aero and Glass were "cheesy," (their words) so dumped them.
The latest "Metro-ised" Visual Studio is ugly too because MS thought chrome was "distracting," but it can be improved with a bit of tinkering.
Personally, I think Windows 7 is their best-looking OS ever.
Yeah I like the look of Windows 7 and it runs very fast on my entry level Core i5.
:D:D...
The huge differences between the UIs of different programmes and even between successive versions of the same one are often greater than between windows desktops through the years yet result in less comment.
I tried it out just before it was released - I am not exaggerating when I say it was the worst operating system I have ever had the displeasure to use! It it so unintuitive that it beggars belief that someone allowed it to be released!
It will probably go down as Microsofts biggest flops.
I use Windows 7 and it's a joy to use.