[yanike]

I'm gonna start posting programs on this first post that'll make Home Basic like premium with awesome 3rd party apps. All programs will work

Why is this better, because Home Basic doesn't cost much and doesn't take much to run. With these apps you get all the features like vista home premium and it won't slow down your OS or take up as much space.

Make Vista Home Basic better with these applications.

VisualTaskTips - Thumbnail view of the windows in the taskbar.

Taskbar Shuffle - No hotkey, no extra steps, rearrange the programs on your Windows taskbar by simply... well, dragging and dropping them! Neat concept, huh?

Taskbar Tools - Check this site out Nice free stuff!
TopDesk - FLIP 3D and Alt+Tab Alternative to Vista. Home Basic just got better

Make Aero Glass work on Vista Home Basic

FATSAC, on Jan 24 2007, 01:03 AM, said:

Enable Aero Glass

Regedit:
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM/

Composition = 1
CompositionPolicy = 2

Right click Command Prompt and run as admin:

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

Done!

First, welcome to WinMatrix FATSAC. Your first post was the best this year

Proof


HAHAHA! Thanks FATSAC! It worked in Home Basic
Official Tweak Vista

See Winmatrixians, Vista Home Basic is the best choice. Unless you need Vista Business on something along those lines. $99.95 (this includes everything) is all it takes and you get everything. So, why pirate? Buy It

graeme, on Feb 3 2007, 03:39 PM, said:

how do i navigate to HKCU/software/microsoft/windows/dwm ? sorry i am a noob

Start Menu> Click in the "Start Search" box> Type in "run">Click on "Run" under the list of Programs found>Type "regedit" in the text box and click "Open" or press "Enter" key.

When the "Registry Editor" opens up, click and open the following folders:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER" then "Software" then "Microsoft" then "Windows" and then "DWM".

Double click on "Composition" type "1" in the "Value data" field and click on the "OK" button.

Double click on "CompositionPolicy" type "2" in the "Value data" field and click on the "OK" button.

Exit out of the Registry Editor.

Start Menu> Click in the "Start Search" box> Type in "command prompt"> Click on "Command Prompt" under the list of Programs found> type in "net stop uxsms" press the "Enter" key> Wait for it to do its thing, then type in "net start uxsms" press "Enter" key.

Screen may flicker to set it up. Then right-click on your desktop and click on "Personalize" > Click on "Window Color and Appearance". You should be able to handle it from here

This post has been edited by yanike: 08 April 2007 - 11:20 AM

[Ultimate John]

If you can enable Aero in Home Basic then click here to have an animated wallpaper also.

[M.Sudoku]

Will you be able to use WindowBlinds to apply Aero theme on Vista Home Basic?

[yanike]

M.Sudoku, on Feb 1 2007, 11:01 PM, said:

Will you be able to use WindowBlinds to apply Aero theme on Vista Home Basic?

Read my top post

This post has been edited by yanike: 02 February 2007 - 07:23 AM

[yanike]

More softwares added

[taipan]

lol why spend more when you can download more

[FalseAgent]

taipan, on Feb 8 2007, 04:39 AM, said:

lol why spend more when you can download more

LOL!

btw, to run stuff you don't have to go to the run dialog box. Vista's new run is the start search...try typing in "regedit" in the start search

[zenon]

Err... just curious, how does Vista Home Basic look if it doesnt have the Aero theme? I mean I thought all Vista came with the Aero theme!

[sjc1963]

I tried this "patch" and it still looks the same as when I had it under Vista Standard. I'm using Home Basic OEM. Does that make a difference?

[lareeth]

sjc1963, on Feb 12 2007, 11:16 PM, said:

I tried this "patch" and it still looks the same as when I had it under Vista Standard. I'm using Home Basic OEM. Does that make a difference?

have you restarted since you applied?

[yanike]

sjc1963, on Feb 12 2007, 05:16 PM, said:

I tried this "patch" and it still looks the same as when I had it under Vista Standard. I'm using Home Basic OEM. Does that make a difference?

Dude! Vista sucks. After using it for abit and noticing half my stuff doesn't work and now it won't even start up, it's complete junk. I'm in the process of getting my money back. If you use XP stay with it. Also, give Linux a try. Microsoft released another NOT ready version(worse than ME) of Windows just to get money. Now, I got to figure out how to get back 50GB of memory locked up in the system.

Comment made before the lastest updates

Vista Rules!!!

This post has been edited by yanike: 22 March 2007 - 08:52 AM

[sjc1963]

lareeth, on Feb 12 2007, 07:30 PM, said:

sjc1963, on Feb 12 2007, 11:16 PM, said:

I tried this "patch" and it still looks the same as when I had it under Vista Standard. I'm using Home Basic OEM. Does that make a difference?

have you restarted since you applied?

That was not part of the instructions. Right after the command to restart DWN it says Done.

I just rebooted and no change.

This post has been edited by sjc1963: 13 February 2007 - 12:03 AM

[Freka]

muahaha but my pc came with vista home premium so im fine

[cmkumar2k]

good tips... keep coming more....

[Laughing Man]

Wait you can rearrange tasks on the taskbar in Vista Home Premium? I tried that on my laptop and it didn't work. o.O