Web Talk

One of the biggest innovation in Windows Vista is its nice glassy theme also known as Vista Aero Theme. This theme adds fresh air to our Windows letting us work, thanks to its performing features, in a more productive way. The other side of the story is that this nice candy theme consumes a lot of resources from our computer making it, in more than one case, quite sluggish.  Of course you can disable it through the normal Vista settings, but this procedure is a bit annoying and time consuming, above all if have to turn Aero theme on and off many times a day. Let’s see how, with a nice trick you can create a couple of  shortcuts to disable/enable the Aero theme at will.

Enable Aero Theme shortcut

1. Right-click your mouse in any empty part of your desktop.
2. Now select New and choose Shortcut. The shortcut wizard should appear.
3. In the empty box type: Rundll32dwmApi#102
4. Give a name to the shortcut such as Enable Aero.
5. Click Finish.

Disable Aero Theme shortcut

1. Right-click your mouse in any empty part of your desktop.
2. Now select New and choose Shortcut. The shortcut wizard should appear.
3. In the empty box type: Rundll32dwmApi#104
4. Give a name to the shortcut such as Disable Aero.
5. Click Finish.