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The Windows Vista Aero glass interface will only work if you have a high-powered video card. For the select few of you that do, you can also disable it so you can act like you don’t really care about cool stuff. (But you do)

You might also have some performance reasons for disabling it… to do so, just right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize. Click the “Window Color and Appearance” link:

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Then in the next screen, click the link near the bottom for “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”

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Now you should be able to disable Aero altogether by choosing Windows Vista Basic in this screen:

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