Posted December 26, 2013
crparson: How do you disable visual themes and desktop composition in windows 8.1? No help from google search.
According to Microsoft themselves, the Desktop Window Manager is always ON, there is a post lower down in that article that may be helpful in turning off the DWM but it may cause problems. [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848042(v=vs.85).aspx]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848042(v=vs.85).aspx[/url]