annoyances.org/exec/software/myexpose, and shown in Figure 5-5.
If you find the aforementioned title bar buttons??”minimize, maximize, and
close??”too big (or not big enough), you can resize them. Open the Personalization
page in Control Panel, click Window Color and Appearance, click
Open classic appearance properties for more color options, and then click
the Advanced button. From the Item list, select Active Title Bar, and then
use the Size control to the right to shrink or grow the title bar. The preview
shows the classic interface only, so take your best guess, and click OK to see
how it looks.
See ???Improve Battery Life,??? later in this chapter, for another tool you can
use with Glass.
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Part 3a: Vista Home Basic
Vista Home Basic doesn??™t support the Glass interface, and this is intentional;
why else would you pay extra for Vista Home Premium?
Now, there are a number of hacks floating around the Web that promise to
bring Glass to Home Basic with nothing more than a change to the Registry.
Unfortunately, these were all written for the beta and CTP (Consumer Technology
Preview) versions of Vista that made the rounds in 2006. Unfortunately,
the Glass interface is simply not present in Home Basic, but that
doesn??™t mean you can??™t still come close.
Following the steps in ???Part 2: Software,??? the best you can get in Home
Basic is the Windows Vista Basic scheme, which looks strikingly like Glass,
sans the transparency effects.
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