Windows Vista Blog

How To: Speed up Aero

January 8th, 2008 by SysAdmin

The Transparent Glass feature in Windows Vista may look nice and pretty but it sure can slow down your computer if your graphics card isn’t up to par.

A way to speed up Vista and still get the benefits of Aero is to disable the Glass Transparency effect.

How to disable glass Transparency in Windows Vista

• Right click an area on the Desktop and then click Personalize
• Choose Windows Color and Appearance
• Uncheck Enable Transparency.
• Click OK