Hidden 3D animations in Windows Vista

10Jul2007 Filed under: Fun and funny, Microsoft, Tips and Tricks, Windows Author: Kitkat

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Since I got my Windows Vista laptop, I have been tweaking and playing with it like a new babe. The Windows Vista operating system is so lovely although sometimes I find the added security features quite annoying. Recently, I found that there is this Windows Vista utility which is meant for benchmarking your system called the Windows System Assessment Tool.

Usually, you would run it through the Control Panel. Go:
Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools

Check out my laptop’s performance. Not very good right… all because of the poor graphics capabilities.

Windows performance

OK, this may sound like boring and useless. But, you may not know that you can actually get this tool to display some really cool 3D animations. To do this, you need to get to the command prompt and run the following commands. If you have problem running them, most likely you need to elevate your privileges.

Let me show you screen shots of these 3D animations. The commands to run them are below of the screen shots.

3D Aurora
winsat aurora

3D Windows Vista
winsat d3d -texshader -totalobj 15

Windows Vista 3D
winsat d3d -objs C(20) -texshader -totalobj 50

Vista 3D effects
winsat d3d -totalobj 20 -objs C(20) -totaltex 10 -texpobj C(1) -alushader -noalpha -v -time 10

Hidden Windows Vista
winsat dwm -glassw 20

By the way, if you are thinking of getting a new laptop preloaded with Windows Vista, you might want to check out the latest offerings from DELL. Michael Dell is kind enough to send me brochures every couple of weeks, lately seems like it’s more frequent. Every now and then I will get a new brochure in my mailbox. I quite like the Inspiron 1520 notebook which goes for RM2999. This price is very reasonable looking at the features packed machine which comes in 8 vibrant colors and with an integrated 2 mega pixel webcam. If you are interested here are the specs in brief:
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.50GHz
- 1GB DDR-2 SDRAM
- 80GB SATA HDD (should upgrade this if you want to keep lots of porn videos)
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
- 15.4 WXGA Display
- 1 year completecover support!

Dell is not paying me for this promo here… just a suggestion if you are thinking of getting a new babe.

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4 Responses to “Hidden 3D animations in Windows Vista”

Howard Duong
July 17th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

Cool! Can those be used as screen savers? I noticed that they mis-spelled “turning” with two “n”s when I mistyped something.
Kitkat
July 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

Yes, but not all of them. There is a screen saver named aurora, try that one. It’s pretty cool.
Howard Duong
July 19th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

I have the aurora set as my screen saver but it’s colours on a black background and not that one. That one would be more consistent with the login and shutdown screens since it has that “bar” along the bottom. Is there a place where I can find a screen shot of the login and shutdown screens background without all the words and stuff to use as my wallpaper?!?
Ricardo
August 9th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

Howard Duong,

Yes it’s possible to get all the nice pictures of the logon screen and the winSAT screen.
To get the winSAT picture you must extract 4 pictures out of the
%windir%\system32\WinSAT.exe file.

To get the pictures from the logon screen you must just copy it from
%windir%\system32\oobe\msoobe.jpg