Enabling Aero and Glass Effects on Vista Home Basic

For enabling Aero you can do the following steps

Regedit:

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/DWM/

Composition = 1
CompositionPolicy = 2

Right click Command Prompt and run as admin:

net stop uxsms
net start uxsms

For enabling glass there is no hacks till found, one workaround is to use the free utility Glass2K from the below link

http://chimetv.com/tv/products/glass2k/Glass2k.exe