This will cycle Aero Glass’s color over a period of time. I have my colors cycling right now, and dwm.exe’s CPU usage is only hovering at 1-3%, up from 0-1%.
If you have a laptop, and noticed that when transparency shuts off, it looks like crap, you can also set this to go to a different color than normal when on battery…..Or even set it up so that the color is based on your battery life. (The screenshot doesn’t show it, but I added another checkbox for this option.)

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Windows Vista relies heavily on it’s Windows Experience Index. This is used to determine what features will be loaded on install (like Aero) and may be used in the future by graphical applications like games to automatically adjust their settings based on the user’s hardware. Read the more »

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Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system with a user experience that adapts to take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware on which it is installed.

All Windows Vista Capable PCs will be able to run at least the core experiences of Windows Vista.

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It’s that time again–time to get your patches on, and to do so quickly. Microsoft yesterday hosted the biggest Patch Tuesday event of the young year when it posted 12 security fixes for 20 security flaws in its products. Seven of the patches addressed zero-day flaws that have been used to launch attacks across the Internet in recent weeks, and there was even a patch fixing Microsoft’s security tools, which could have automatically triggered the exploit with no interaction from the user.

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Washington - Once you get past Microsoft Vista’s attractive new interface, what’s left to wow you? Quite a bit, actually, although a lot of the improvements in Microsoft’s newest operating system are subtle.

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