DeepVista is a program that demonstrates a simulation of the Aero Glass effect of Windows Vista within Windows XP. It was written at a time (August 2005) when only one other program was even attempting a similar demonstration. Furthermore, at the time there was no other program for Windows XP demonstrating the effect along with a resizable window and the real-time blur effect. This is just a demonstration. DeepVista does not cause your other Windows XP applications to adopt the Aero Glass effect. For that, nowadays you can achieve a close system-wide approximation using WindowBlinds by Stardock.

Click here to download DeepVista 0.2
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Known Bugs

1. min/max/close buttons: up-state transparency is unreliable, goes pink
2. min/max/close buttons: z-order doesn’t behave, shows through windows
3. window contents left behind when clicking within overlapping DV windows
4. it can tend to look horrible on Win2K, so for now… XP’ers only please