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    <title>topic Re: Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility in VMware Fusion Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;That is an improvement.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Still have the black box artifacts I mentioned, but Win7 is back to normal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the help. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:10:21 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>billweber</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2012-10-29T05:10:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Windows-7-Aero-and-Office-2013-Incompatibility/m-p/2180088#M133213</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I originally asked this question in the Windows Community Forum, but it occurs to me that it might be related to VMware Tools and how they deal with Windows 7 Aero, so I'm copying the thread here.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class="msgBody wrapWord fullMessage"&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;So, I would like to run a Windows image on my MacBook Pro for backwards compatability.&amp;nbsp; Here is the image I've created.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;MBP OSX 11.8.2 with VMware Fusion 5.0.1&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Windows 7 6.1.7601 SP1 64-bit&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Office 2013 15.0.4420.1017 64-bit (Final)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;VMware Tools 9.2.1.818201&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;With Aero enabled, starting any Office 2013 application creates a&amp;nbsp; blank screen where you can see some artifacts when you mouse over them&amp;nbsp; and can close the app by clicking on the upper right hand corner&amp;nbsp; (presumably the "X" one would normally expect).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Disabling Aero produces normal Office functionality and of course makes all applications as ugly as the new Office.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Given the direction MS has taken on reducing functionality, I&amp;nbsp; understand if the answer to my question is MS wants you to disable Aero;&amp;nbsp; presumably so I'll get accustom to less functionality and be more&amp;nbsp; willing to downgrade to Windows 8.&amp;nbsp; But the blank screen&amp;nbsp; seems like a bug.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Do I have this wrong?&amp;nbsp; Is there a way to keep Aero enabled and still use Win7/Office15?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;What I am posting is a screen print of my MBP screen so you can see exactly what I see.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Office 2013 is the only program that has this problem.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR /&gt; I've noted it across two virtual machines running on the same laptop, both using Windows 7.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Here is Word off Aero.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Off%20Aero%201.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Off%20Aero%201.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Here is my desktop with Aero turned on.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/On%20Aero%20Desktop%201.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/On%20Aero%20Desktop%201.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Here is Word on Aero.&amp;nbsp; Note the artifact search window when I mouse over it.&lt;BR /&gt; The application is otherwise black.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Word%20on%20Aero%201.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Word%20on%20Aero%201.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; I also tried to use an Aero feature of switching to a application with&amp;nbsp; the preview showing.&amp;nbsp; It shows black as well.&amp;nbsp; Here is that image.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Word%20on%20Aero%202.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Word%20on%20Aero%202.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Excel on Aero has the same problem.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Excel%20on%20Aero%201.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/Excel%20on%20Aero%201.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; So does PowerPoint&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/PowerPoint%20on%20Aero%201.png"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/PowerPoint%20on%20Aero%201.png&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; On both Excel and PowerPoint, I moused over the search box dialog when I took the screen shot.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; What is potentially interesting is when the application starts I see the&amp;nbsp; splash screen and when it closes by selecting the hidden X in the upper&amp;nbsp; right corner, I see an animation of the screen minimizing.&amp;nbsp; It's very&amp;nbsp; notable because you see the theme colors of&amp;nbsp; the application, like Blue for Word, Green for Excel or Red for&amp;nbsp; PowerPoint.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; So, I'm not sure how helpful screen shots of a black screen can be, but there they are.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; To your question about compatibility mode, I verified that Windows 7 App&amp;nbsp; Compatibility is not turned on for this application, and I don't recall&amp;nbsp; turning it on for any other applications in the image.&amp;nbsp; The&amp;nbsp; verification I did was by viewing the application settings&amp;nbsp; from the Word 2013 Icon Properties dialog under the Compatibility tab.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; My laptop has a 2880x1800 screen, so I reduced the size of the images here.&lt;BR /&gt; When running in full screen, rather than a window, the results are the same.&lt;BR /&gt; All of the files are located here if you want the original images.&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/"&gt;http://ironbravo.com/public/20121027/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;BR /&gt; Thanks for your thoughts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_install/office-2013-windows-7-aero/af3323ac-11e0-4f62-ac4b-6d6171645baa#LastReply"&gt;http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_install/office-2013-windows-7-aero/af3323ac-11e0-4f62-ac4b-6d6171645baa#LastReply&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My reasoning is that this functionality seems to only be a problem for the virtualized image.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So I'm curious if others have seen problems with Aero in this configuration.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:36:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>billweber</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-10-28T05:36:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Windows-7-Aero-and-Office-2013-Incompatibility/m-p/2180089#M133214</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is because office 2013 needs direct x 10 which is not yet available in fusion 5. I believe this will be supported soon.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;workarond is to disable hardware acceleration.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For more details refer the &lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034553"&gt;KB Article &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;update : This is applicable for both fusion as well as workstation users.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Try any one of the workaround. I would suggest you to disable hardware acceleration in office apps rather than entire vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:11:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>avanish321</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-10-29T04:11:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Windows-7-Aero-and-Office-2013-Incompatibility/m-p/2180090#M133215</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I've implemented turning off 3D Acceleration in the Fusion settings for the virtual machine with some success.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It has gotten me to a comfortable middleground where I have a Win7 non-Aero appearance.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, thank you for that.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Two remaining questions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- I still have occasional black boxes that appear when my mouse changes from one shape to another.&amp;nbsp; For example, when mousing over a link, I occasionally get a small black box that then changes to the proper image.&amp;nbsp; Is this an artifact of sub-optimal performance?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- If the hardware (VMware SVGA) only supports DirectX 9, why does Microsoft fail to a black screen?&amp;nbsp; That still seems like a bug.&amp;nbsp; Is there something I'm missing?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the help. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:46:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>billweber</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-10-29T04:46:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Windows-7-Aero-and-Office-2013-Incompatibility/m-p/2180091#M133216</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Instead of disabling 3d acceleration in vm settings have you tried disabling hardware acceleration in individual office apps?   enable acceleration on vm.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:53:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>avanish321</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-10-29T04:53:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Windows 7 Aero and Office 2013 Incompatibility</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Windows-7-Aero-and-Office-2013-Incompatibility/m-p/2180092#M133217</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;That is an improvement.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Still have the black box artifacts I mentioned, but Win7 is back to normal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the help. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:10:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>billweber</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-10-29T05:10:21Z</dc:date>
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