User:Lucas Brooks/RealAero

RealAero is a reconstruction of Microsoft's private DWM theme for M7 builds of pre-reset Longhorn. Currently only the x86 retail compile of the WinHEC build (4074) of Longhorn is officially supported, although the theme file may work on other Longhorn builds. RealAero is based on TrueAeroPlus by the same author and some resources are from TrueAero and/or TWIWMTB.

Basic Features
RealAero aims to be as close to Microsoft's private Aero theme as possible, so the following exclusive features of the private Aero theme are also in RealAero:

Advanced Features
The full RealAero package contains a patched  that gives more Aero features and a setup script that installs the package like how Microsoft installed their Aero package for their demo builds. Below are some advanced features of the RealAero package: If you would like to install the full package, please make sure you do so on a clean install of the unmodified Longhorn build.

Source Code
Source code of the RealAero theme is also included. While all modifications were done by resource replacement and hex editing, a decompiled version of the theme is provided for reference. It cannot be recompiled using the leaked version of Microsoft's Theme Packer because Longhorn uses a completely different theme format. Maybe in the future Longhorn Theme Dumper (another project by the RealAero author) will support recompilation of Longhorn themes.

Installation
You must modify the Registry to allow the Aero theme to be applied. Open Registry Editor, browse to, create a   called   and set its value to   (or   in hexadecimal).

Version 0.2 (pre-release) - 2021-11-10

 * Theme
 * Package

Version 0.1 (pre-release) - 2021-10-23

 * Theme
 * Package

TrueAeroPlus (unsupported) - 2021-05-26

 * Theme