Aero Glass gone when I changed to RC2, build 5744

[Guest]

Hi,
Read the following post.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...-15AF7EC6783B&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

 

[Guest]

Sorry about the link. Look for a post on 10/10/2006 titled
"Aero not enabled after installing RC2"

"This workaround worked:

1. Ensure that you have the following registry value set to :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\Composition set to 1 (32-bit DWORD)
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPolicy set to 2 (32-bit DWORD)
2. Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with administrative privileges:
- Type 'net stop uxsms'
- Then 'net start uxsms'

Some people say that the issue is on systems with 512 Mb RAM but I have 767
Mb..."

Anything less than 1GB of RAM.

 

[Jeff]

Or,
You might wanna try something simple; I had no Aero either, and just by
running the Aero assesment; it corrected itself.
Simple; maybe you tried that already though; just a thought.
Fixed no Aero for me.

Jeff

 

[SpeedKing]

128Mb and upwards card do use system memory as well when they need it.
Even in XP.
I have a 250Mb card and it takes 512Mb to use when needed.

 

[Rick]

Thank You for your help. The link throwed me off since I'm reading this
from Live Mail news. After I got logged onto the MS Communities I could see
what your were talking about.

I needed to only change the registry setting listed below. The other
registry setting was already set as suggested.

HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPolicy set to
"2"

Mine was set at "0".

I ran the command prompt as Admin and when I restarted the DWM services I
had the glass effect.

Thank You very much..

 

[Guest]

Thank You for your help. The link throwed me off since I'm reading this
from Live Mail news. After I got logged onto the MS Communities I could see
what your were talking about.

I needed to only change the registry setting listed below. The other
registry setting was already set as suggested.

HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\CompositionPolicy set to
"2"

Mine was set at "0".

I ran the command prompt as Admin and when I restarted the DWM services I
had the glass effect.

Thank You very much..

 

[Rick]

I had aero glass effects when I ran 5728 and pre-RC1. After I did a fresh
install I don't have the aero glass effects available anymore. My video
card is now rated at 2.0 and it was either a 2.6 or 2.9 in previous
versions. I also noticed that the video card is now robbing 64KB of system
memory and I didn't see that in previous versions. I'm am using a PNY
FX5200 128MB and it supported Aero Glass previously. What happened? Is
there a setting I need to change. I have the newest video drivers from
Nvidia.