I just took a look, and I really can't see any difference between the window shadows on my Mavericks machine and my Snow Leopard VM. The Mavericks shadows may b

I just took a look, and I really can't see any difference between the window shadows on my Mavericks machine and my Snow Leopard VM. The Mavericks shadows may be ever-so-slightly stronger. You may be thinking of Yosemite, which definitely toned down the shadows a bit as part of flattening everything.