Vista aero glass, hot or not?
Whether or not you run Vista Aero Glass on your system depends on if you hardware is actually capable of running it smoothly and on personal preference. It mostly comes down to personal preference.
This article
compares Vista Aero Glass to Jessica Simpson, pretty to look at, good for a few other things but dumb as dirt. I find it difficult to call a GUI “dumb†the GUI itself is not dumb; however, the core of Vista can be quite irritating with all its confirmation dialogs and security warnings which have nothing to do with the GUI, Aero Glass. Turning off User Account Controls can solve a number of those problems but some programs will not function correctly if you do so.
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