Aero Theme Disappeared

[snowburnt]

Hi all,

Last night I had a power failure and when I turned on my computer this
morning I had some hard drive problems. It wouldn't recognize my
profile, the event log said that I didn't have access to my ntuser.dat
file. I ended up copying my profile, deleting it and copying it back.
At about that time I noticed that my aero theme was gone.
I tried all the tricks I found by searching the beta boards, but the
Aero theme is no where to be found along with the aero color scheme.
I have a 3.8 rating and it was there before. Any ideas how to get it
back?

thanks!

 

[Disp350]

Check to see if the Desktop Window Manager Session Manager service is
running. I had a similar problem a few days after I got a new Vista PC. I am
not sure how it happened, but somehow this service was changed from
Automatic to Manual. Once I started it up, The Aero theme returned.

 

[snowburnt]

It's running but it isn't showing up still. I was able to find the
style file, and it looks fine but won't show up under the color
settings still.

 

[Dave]

try restarting the service.

Task Manager - Services - click on Services box in lower right.
in the window that opens, select the service and click on Restart on the
left.

 

[snowburnt]

tried it, still no go. Also tried the registry hacks and the command
line restarts to no effect. One other thing: I think I was Remote
Desktop-ed into my computer before it got restarted last...not sure if
that had anything to do with it...

 

[Lang Murphy]

Hi all,

Last night I had a power failure and when I turned on my computer this
morning I had some hard drive problems. It wouldn't recognize my
profile, the event log said that I didn't have access to my ntuser.dat
file. I ended up copying my profile, deleting it and copying it back.
At about that time I noticed that my aero theme was gone.
I tried all the tricks I found by searching the beta boards, but the
Aero theme is no where to be found along with the aero color scheme.
I have a 3.8 rating and it was there before. Any ideas how to get it
back?

thanks!

Well... not for nothing, but... sounds like you had enough power issues to
give -any- OS fits...

Lang

 

[snowburnt]

Well... not for nothing, but... sounds like you had enough power issues to
give -any- OS fits...

Lang

yeah, power and harddrive issues...I'm not blaming vista, I still
think it's a great OS...I'd just like it that much more if it let me
use Aero again.