{"id":895,"date":"2009-07-23T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2009-07-19T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T20:49:54","slug":"vista-without-aero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/vista-without-aero\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista without Aero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I switched my Vista laptop from using Aero glass (which it is capable of) to the classic Windows 98 theme that I've been using (with few modifications) for over a decade. That one simple change made the machine quite significantly faster - that much faster that I decided to keep glass off despite it being that much prettier. I think part of the reason is that I tend to keep a lot of windows open at once, many of them maximized. Because the Desktop Window Manager keeps the bitmap for each open window, this uses up quite a lot of memory.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately disabling DWM still doesn't give me back the ability to use full-screen DOS applications, which is something I occasionally miss. Still, I can use DOSBox for those tasks now.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I replace my laptop, I'll have to try this experiment again and see if the performance difference has become negligable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I switched my Vista laptop from using Aero glass (which it is capable of) to the classic Windows 98 theme that I've been using (with few modifications) for over a decade. That one simple change made the machine quite significantly faster - that much faster that I decided to keep glass off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}