I've searched for something like this in the past but wasn't successful.
A short search now yields this results:
http://saarineames.deviantart.com/art/Classic … Final-343638171
http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Luna-port- … -Aero-136960235?

I suppose you want something like Classic AE?

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I hate Windows 7's Aero theme, and I use classic whenever possible, but I've noticed that I can't enable desktop compositing when I'm using the classic theme, so as a result I'm getting choppy rendering on Foobar2000's visualizers. 🤣 This irritates the shit out of me, because I remember it looked just fine on XP, which had no real form of desktop composition AFAIK.

Anyway, has anyone ever managed to hack together a solution to enabling desktop composition with the classic theme on Win7? I'd be eternally grateful if someone knew a solution to this problem.

That's because when you disable Aero, the GUI defaults to GDI+ instead of DWM. GDI+ is strictly 2D. Also, you will get vsync tearing. The only OS that has vsync functionality with GDI+ to my knowledge is Windows XP. Not even XP x64. I use x64 and put up with the tearing.

I don't really care about tearing, my Xubuntu 14.04 install exhibits horrible amounts of screen tearing, at least with FGLRX. I've tried forcing v-sync before, but it adds these incredibly annoying delays whenever I scroll down a webpage, so I've decided to put up with the tearing instead.

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I've searched for something like this in the past but wasn't successful.
A short search now yields this results:
http://saarineames.deviantart.com/art/Classic … Final-343638171
http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Luna-port- … -Aero-136960235?

I suppose you want something like Classic AE?

Classic AE *almost* does it for me, but it still has those horribly stretched out window buttons, and unnecessarily thick titlebars. I might give it a shot though just for the hell of it.

http://www.rawcomputing.co.uk/windows7/win7tips2.html ?

I don't care about the size of the buttons because to me that's entirely visual: I never hit those buttons by accident anyway.

In terms of space wasted on window decorations, my Win7/Win8 setups are very close to my old XP setup.