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Classic and Basic Theme slower than Aero

Submitted by sebastian___ on November 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

The classic (and Basic) theme is slower than Aero, due to not being hardware accelerated I think. There's no reason this should be, especially when in XP was fast.

This would probably demoted for no reason, and I can hear the responses : "time to move on" and "let's force everyone use the new UI" and a sardonic laugh "hahaha"

But in fact it's a matter of user preferences. How would you feel if you will be forced to use a certain color for your car ?

Or should we force everyone to use a new and improved Digital Watch ? OUt with the old analog clocks ?

Add hardware accelerated Classic Theme.

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Discussion (1 comments)

sebastian___ wrote on May 8, 2010, 6:10pm

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A lot of graphics designers I know, just deactivate Aero and use Classic UI, because they think the graphics card will perform better with their 3d software.

But most of them don't know that doing that will just make windows slower - like having less frames per second.

I wonder if Microsoft have some kind of tracking statistics in place to determine how many people deactivate Aero.

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