Is there any way to prevent an application's ability to disable desktop composion (Aero glass effects)?

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I use an old version of PowerDVD to play my old HD-DVD discs.  Unfortunately, the application was made back in the days where display cards didnt have enough GPU power to handle Aero glass while playing HD-DVDs.. so, the app just blindly disables Aero glass effects for my WindowsBlinds theme.

This is a long shot, but I was hoping someone knew where applications access in the registry to tell the system to turn off/on desktop composition.  I might be able to limit permissions in that part of the registry.  I already have a feeling that this may not be possible (for whatever reason) since if it were possible, someone would have done it a long time ago instead of suggesting the super clunky "restart uxsms service" work-around.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't think so.  I have Microsoft's FSX [flight sim] that disables Aero too .... and I haven't heard of any work-around...;)

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder if it's a compatibility setting - there's a toolkit somewhere which lets you fiddle with application compatibility settings that come with Windows (and can also be added by application). This is in addition to what you can tweak via the 'right click properties' tab. (though mentioning that, you might want to see what right click properties exist for your program - I believe there is a 'disable aero' option - perhaps set a compatibility of Windows 7 (why does this option exist) and then make sure disable isn't checked. Might work, might not...

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