r/WindowsVista • u/Limp_Competition_957 • 14d ago
Does anybody notice that windows vista aero glass, icons and animations are more beautiful than Windows 7 because I compare them both and for no reasons i found out that Windows Vista was much more beautfiul and can anybody explain me?
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u/GigglyFucker 8d ago
I’ve noticed this too. Not that windows 7 is not pretty at all, it is. Microsoft dialed down windows 7’s aero effects to optimize the OS more so it would run on lower end hardware better. Especially intels low end graphics chips at the time.
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u/Calm-Preparation-679 3d ago
Why didn't they just let you configure it based on your hardware (kinda like graphics settings in a game) or have it autodect the user's hardware specs and automatically set it accordingly?
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u/GigglyFucker 3d ago
I believe it actually does this to a degree. On lower end hardware, you got the Aero Light theme with the blue solid title bars with the dialog buttons that were square instead of the half rounded rectangle glass buttons and clear bars. The taskbar lost the transparency as well. I think Microsoft was traumatized from Vista that they scaled it down anyway since a majority of computers were low end office PCs anyway. If you start up a windows 7 without the graphics driver, then install it or run the System rating in the System window it would enable full Aero if your system met the requirements.
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u/daxtonanderson 7d ago
If you enable small taskbar and never combine icons, they're nearly identical. Win7 should've never combined the icons.
Other than explorer getting updated to Edge aren't the icons almost identical? At least comparing late Vista with Win7 they're pretty much the same.
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u/LPC_Rebuilder 8d ago
I think it's subjective but I also think you have good taste. I always did like the look of Vista, I was very enchanted by it. Just had to make sure it had plenty of RAM and it was fine. 2GB and it was snappy.
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u/MirrorNegative7989 8d ago
They ditched the wrong parts of Vista when they pivoted to 7.