Do you want to change the color theme to improve performance?

[puddenn]

Hey guys, so this window sometimes pops up and minimizes any full screen app im using. Im on Windows 7 x64. For now I tried "disable desktop composition" on the apps I have problems with but I dont know if that works so I was gonna ask you guys if you have any ideas

 

[file3456]

Have you read through this?

It might be everything you tried, but maybe not the registry setting.

 

[LMiller7]

Whether or not these settings will make any difference depends almost entirely on your hardware. On a reasonably modern system they are unlikely to make any difference. On an old low spec system that would be different.

 

[puddenn]

Have you read through this?

It might be everything you tried, but maybe not the registry setting.

THANK YOU Simpilot. You know I have been trying to disable this stupid thing for years with registry edits and what not, none of those seem to work but thanks to you I found a workaround today


Im gonna line it out here for everyone whos having the same problem as I did


So what this entails is making .bat files to easily switch themes. In my example I would disable Aero before playing a game and enable it after for example


Now it seems like just stopping and starting the aero service seems to work as well so you could shorten these commands down and skip the themeswitcher program if you want but I just dont trust Windows to not **** up so Im gonna take the long route


First of all you need to get this program Winaero Theme Switcher (at the bottom of the page)



Then you need to install it, and put the installation folder into your system path. Start by going to your installation folder and copying its path. Then go to Control Panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Advanced tab>Enviroment Variables then under System Variables scroll down to Path, click edit. Use your right arrow key to go as far to the right as you can then put a ; symbol at the end (if there isnt one there already) then paste your copied path after that symbol


Now you are able to use themeswitcher in cmd, congratulations! What I did now was right click my desktop, go to Personalize. Then I selected 1 Aero theme, scrolled up clicked save theme and named it "Aero1" then did the same thing with a basic theme and called it basic1


When this is done the themes get saved in C:\Users\(yourusername)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes so copy the themes you created from there and paste them in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes


Now it is time to create the files that will switch themes automatically for you


Make a new text file. Paste this into the text file echo OFF
net stop uxsms
themeswitcher.exe basic


Then save the file, rename it from .txt to .bat (Make sure you have disabled hide extension for known filetypes in Control Panel>Folder Options>View tab)


And now you have made a file which will turn off Windows Aero and enable a basic theme. Congratulations!


Now lets make a file that will turn on Windows Aero again. Same procedure create a text file and paste this into it echo OFF
net start uxsms
themeswitcher.exe Aero1


Done and done, now you can put these files on your desktop, maybe change the icon to something a little smoother than a cogwell and you're ready to go


Like I said earlier in theory the .bat files could just contain the text echo OFF
net stop uxsms



and

echo OFF
net start uxsms


respectively but Im personally not trusting Windows not to **** up enough so Im using the Theme Switcher program.. Now I havent tried this fix out yet but it SHOULD work in theory. I will update this post in case it doesnt. Also you can disable desktop composition in any games that you run as well by finding the exe and clicking Properties then ticking the "Disable Desktop Composition" box. This should act as a fail safe in case this method fails, doing this however you would need to enable the aero theme afterwards again but that should be easy now shouldn't it

 

[file3456]

You're welcome. I hope it works out for you.

By the way, and in case you don't know. This symbol ; is a semicolon And this would be a colon :

And many people don't know this is a tilde. ~ and its say key can produce an accent mark. `

In case one needs to know what a symbol is, just enter it in Google or Wikipedia and it'll say. Or roman numerals like, IX. Ix - Wikipedia