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Students are not allowed to change the Windows-Design to Aero. So it ist not possible to use Affinity because there is no way to bypass the aero-Design. Is there any possibility to ignore the aero-Design on Windows 7?

 

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yes there is a way, to override the error message, you can use --no-dwm-warning on the command line.

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A command line change can be done by making a shortcut to the Affinity executable and adding the parameter "--no-dwm-warning" to the exe in the shortcut's properties dialog.

Edited by myclay
added image for clarity.

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It's strange as that warning window looks to be already in Aero mode.... Even with the glass effect.

if you could access to performance settings (in system, advanced properties, if I recall well), visual effects, and just activate "desktop composition" , that and "use visual styles in windows and buttons". I believe is all needed. The strange thing is that in this screenshot it looks already activated....

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Yep, that is quite strange, as it looks like Aero is enabled...

Anyway, running with the --no-dwm-warning flag as described by @myclay is completely unsupported. Copy and pasted from my previous post on the subject:

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When you disable Aero (or Desktop Window Manager Composition, which is what we're really interested in), Windows will fallback to using a legacy driver model, which can lead to rendering and performance problems. This only affects Windows 7, as from Windows 8 onwards, DWM Composition is always enabled.

If DWM is enabled, then we should work out why you're getting that error message. If it isn't enabled, it probably should be...

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