I'm not really too sure how you can't repeat it... it does take a few windows to cause it though. The bug isn't context-based so the Vista version is irrelevent. It's logic based. What you are asking it to do it put the window to the "back" of the stack of windows, then animate it away. This only works with maximised ...

I'm a developer at CodeGear (a Borland company) working on Delphi. We've had to do work in Delphi's VCL application framework to correctly support Vista's minimize/maximize behavior and we've also noticed this same problem. I'll be blogging about the changes we made over the coming weeks in case your ...

Hello :) I think I've noticed a bug in Aero... Let's see if I can explain steps to reproduce:Open up a few (like 3 or more at least) windows to get a few entries into the task bar.With one of the windows maximized, try restoring/minimizing another by clicking repeatedly on its task bar button.Often here, I see the Aero "zoom" ...

Ars Technica picked up a report on a study on Windows Vista performance that was conducted at Principled Technologies, a technology assessment company in North Carolina. There's lots of good data in the study about the performance of Windows Vista on a handful of different hardware platforms. One of the highlights for me was reading that they ...

If you're a system builder or just building a pc for yourself, and you want to make sure that your PC can run Aero, you'll be interested in this document. It describes the heuristics the operating system uses to enable Aero, and outlines some troubleshooting steps for getting Aero up and running if it doesn't work for you as expected.

Someone posted a question via the blog recently asking about how Windows Vista supports high DPI displays. Here's a quick summary of how it all works: You can find the DPI settings in Windows Vista by right click'ing on the desktop and selecting ''Personalize'', and the clicking ''Adjust Font Size (DPI)'' in the task list in the green column on ...

Several people here and elsewhere have been asking why the Aero Basic window frame looks like it does, and why it is different from the Aero frame (especially the caption buttons).    I won't give the technical explanation for every single detail here (that would be extremely boring), but I'll try to give you some answers. ...

One of the reasons we created this site was to give some insight into feature design decisions or why features look like they do. Without further delay, here’s some insight into why the Aero Wizard title bar is so big. A standard window has what’s called a “Non-client area” and a “Client area.” The ...

Every once in a while I get an e-mail from someone asking about the Advanced Appearance dialog. This dialog, which is now part of the Personalization CPL, allows users to change system colors & metrics for various pieces of the UI. All of the users ask some form of this question “I want a red active window border! When I change any of ...

One of the major aspects of Aero is the visual appearance of Windows. There are many components to the visual appearance and learning all of the components can be quite confusing. Since I started working on Aero, I found that many people inside & outside of Microsoft misuse terms such as Themes, color schemes, classic, etc. and it causes a ...