How To Disable Aero on Windows 7 or Vista

By 27/01/2012How To

You really need a decent video card when using the Windows Aero Glass interface in Windows 7 or Vista. So, you won’t be able to use it on an old *clunker* PC. For those of you who are more worried about your computers performance, sometimes squeezing every last drop means you’ll have to disable Aero

How to disable Aero on Windows Vista

To do this just right click on your desktop and choose *Personalise* – click the *Window colour and appearance* link.

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Then in the next screen, click the link for *Open classic appearance properties for more color options* which will be near the bottom

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By choosing Windows Vista Basic in this screen you should be able to disable Aero altogether

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How to disable Aero for Windows 7

First, you’ll need to right-click on the desktop and choose *Personalise* from the menu.

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Then you can simply scroll the themes down until you see the Basic themes.

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 And choose Windows 7 Basic.

That’s it, but please call our computer repairs geeks if you have any questions.

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