What does compatibility option "Disable visual themes" do?

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Published on 2013-12-30T07:08:12Z Indexed on 2014/06/10 9:29 UTC
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"Disable desktop composition" flag disables Aero (transparent glass border) effect for the duration of the application's run, which seems like all there is to "visual themes", but toggling the "Disable visual themes" option doesn't seem to do anything. What exactly are these "visual themes"? How does disabling them affect the system?

From what I can guess, a "visual theme" is a custom window border style around window content area created using hooks and WDM API calls, though I am prepared to be corrected.

I'm talking about the checked option:

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