Could you point how to deactivate the "Aero" feature from Win7?

Hi Experts

Could you point how to deactivate the "Aero" feature from Win7?

To gain memory on an old PC that runs as a file server I'm planning to do that.

Thanks in advance.

Windows Server 2008Windows NetworkingWindows 7

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Eduardo Fuerte

8/22/2022 - Mon

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Omar Soudani

2/27/2019

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John

2/27/2019

Agree with the above. You are looking for the Classic Theme (Basic).

Then, in Advanced System Settings, you can uncheck most of the Performance Settings. Here is an example.

Eduardo Fuerte

2/27/2019

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Just in my case is Win7.

John

2/27/2019

Same settings. The method has not changed between settings. There is no need to uncheck these on a fast machine

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Mahesh

2/27/2019

In the above performance options, select "adjust for best performance" and it should deselect all checkboxes automatically and eventually remove all AERO effects as well

Suhaib

2/27/2019

Hi
all the above is true, you can also select "Windows Classic" from Personalization to get the appearance as for windows 2000/98.
see the following screenshots.