Aero

My dad has Vista Home premium on his pc.
What is Aero , and what does it do.
I am on his pc now and I don't know what to look for or at,to recognize what
it is.
TIA
Snuffy

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Carl G

Are the borders of your windows translucent? That's Aero. When you mouse
over an icon on the taskbar, does it show up an little image of the window?
That's Aero. If you click the 2nd default button from the start button,
does it show all your windows angled on the screen? That's Aero - and you
can use the wheel on your mouse to click through them.

Those are a lot of the easy to see Aero things. Not any really big deal, as
Microsoft would have you believe.

Dale

"Carl G" <cgerving@msnDOTcom> wrote in message
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> My dad has Vista Home premium on his pc.
> What is Aero , and what does it do.
> I am on his pc now and I don't know what to look for or at,to recognize
> what it is.
> TIA
> Snuffy
>
> --
> Carl G

Hi Dale
Yup you are right.I sure wouldn't buy Vista JUST for that.
I run XP and have all the windows flash turned off. But this isn't
mine.haha. Dad loves it.
thanks again
Snuffy

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Carl G

"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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> Are the borders of your windows translucent? That's Aero. When you mouse
> over an icon on the taskbar, does it show up an little image of the
> window? That's Aero. If you click the 2nd default button from the start
> button, does it show all your windows angled on the screen? That's Aero -
> and you can use the wheel on your mouse to click through them.
>
> Those are a lot of the easy to see Aero things. Not any really big deal,
> as Microsoft would have you believe.
>
> Dale
>
> "Carl G" <cgerving@msnDOTcom> wrote in message
> news:%23X0bSvMSHHA.3428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> My dad has Vista Home premium on his pc.
>> What is Aero , and what does it do.
>> I am on his pc now and I don't know what to look for or at,to recognize
>> what it is.
>> TIA
>> Snuffy
>>
>> --
>> Carl G
>

Technically, Aero is the process that renders graphics on the graphics card
gpu rather than using the cpu. This is a more efficient process that puts
your graphics card to work and allows your cpu to spend more time processing
your data.

Aero is often associated with the glass borders and live previews, but that
is just a byproduct. While the glass borders could be made using older
hardware and without Aero, Aero provides a way to do this more efficently.
In fact, you might notice a speed decrease if you disable Aero. Please note
that you can disable transparency without disabling Aero.

The glass is just eye candy. The true innovation is in Aero. So it is
something new - but most of it is under the hood work. You shouldn't buy
Vista for the glass borders. Buy it for the better security though user
account control, internet explorer protected mode, address space layout
randomization, patch guard, firewall, windows defender, the new bundled
application such as movie maker, dvd maker, meeting space, and media center,
and for Aero.

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"Carl G" <cgerving@msnDOTcom> wrote in message
news:eEbgQ%23MSHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi Dale
> Yup you are right.I sure wouldn't buy Vista JUST for that.
> I run XP and have all the windows flash turned off. But this isn't
> mine.haha. Dad loves it.
> thanks again
> Snuffy
>
> --
> Carl G
>
> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> news:uZNQK1MSHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Are the borders of your windows translucent? That's Aero. When you
>> mouse over an icon on the taskbar, does it show up an little image of the
>> window? That's Aero. If you click the 2nd default button from the start
>> button, does it show all your windows angled on the screen? That's
>> Aero - and you can use the wheel on your mouse to click through them.
>>
>> Those are a lot of the easy to see Aero things. Not any really big deal,
>> as Microsoft would have you believe.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "Carl G" <cgerving@msnDOTcom> wrote in message
>> news:%23X0bSvMSHHA.3428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> My dad has Vista Home premium on his pc.
>>> What is Aero , and what does it do.
>>> I am on his pc now and I don't know what to look for or at,to recognize
>>> what it is.
>>> TIA
>>> Snuffy
>>>
>>> --
>>> Carl G
>>