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by Liquid_Fire 1523 days ago
Are you talking about the compositing? I haven't used Vista, but I definitely remember that in Windows 7 you couldn't use the glass theme unless hardware acceleration was working, because it relied on compositing on the GPU.

Windows XP supported partially transparent windows, but I'm not sure if this required hardware acceleration or there was also a software rendering fallback.