I didn´t mean that it happens automatically like with 2009+vista.I meant that you can enable that to have aero enabled all the time but disabled for 3dsmax.
I think i didn´t express myself correctly there. I didn´t mean it like having aero enabled while using max.It´s only like the effect you got with 2009+vista, but forcefully activated. Edit: I just tested it and it doesn´t work anymore, i don´t know why, i´m 100% certain that it has worked before, maybe it´s my visual style…
If you go into the taskbar properties, you can set it to use small icons and to never combine taskbar buttons. That'll get it closer to looking like XP/Vista. I'm not sure if theres anything to be done about the small being too small, but it wouldn't take long to get used to anyway. For the quick launch, I think the…
I noticed that some games are faster with aero on - that is if you like playing games in windowed/windowed-fullscreen mode (the ADHD monkey inside me wants to alt-tab to Firefox but still see what's going on in the game ;) ). Anyway, for easy switching btw aero and basic - google for Aerofoil (free). Also nice for notebook…
I like pinning apps to the task bar, I also like that you can reorder them so Max, MotionBuilder and ArtRage all pop up in the exact same spots, they never are dependent on launch order which is nice if you switch apps using the taskbar. I also enabled the quick launch icons because I missed them. Google helped me do…