How To Enable or Disable Windows 7 Glass Aero Transparency Feature
Windows aero transparency, also known as glass effect, which was introduced with the Windows Vista gives a new fresh look to your desktop. In order to enable Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect on your machine, your machine should have enough graphics power.
If your system meets Windows 7 Aero minimum hardware requirements, then the default Aero theme will be activated with transparency (glass) effects. If you would like to disable the transparency effect, you can follow the steps given below:
1. Right-click on Desktop and select Personalize.
2. In Personalization window, click on Windows color link or button located at the bottom to open Window Color and Appearance.
3. To disable transparency (glass effect) just uncheck the box named Enable transparency. And to enable the same, just check Enable transparency box.
4. Click on the Save changes button and exit the window.
5. That’s it.
Note that Aero is not included in Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 7 Starter. Also check out Windows 7 Aero hardware requirements.
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Weather Center is an awesome application to view the current weather conditions in a jiffy. The tool displays the current temperature in the system tray area and is fully customizable.
Upon running the tool for the first time, you will be given an opportunity to to setup the tool by entering your current location. Once done, you can view the current temperature in system tray area and also can view addition information such as dew point, sun rise time, sun set time, humidity and more by opening Weather Center window.
Key features:
- Up-to-date weather information
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Rafael Rivera and Zheng have released a handy application for Windows 7 called Geosense, a Windows Sensor, that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Geosense is available for both x86 & x64 versions of Windows 7. You can download the setup file from the link mentioned below. More information is available at the Geosense download page.